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Arts & Life
Screenshots of readers on zoom: Andrew Goulet (left), Michelle Robinson (middle) and Héctor Hoyos (right).

Literary scholars draw parallels between crime fiction, current events

Jed Ngalande
  •  
May 2, 2021
Arts & Life
Cathy Park Hong reading on Zoom

Cathy Park Hong on ethical storytelling and her ‘accidental’ writing process

Jared Klegar
  •  
April 29, 2021
Arts & Life
headshot of author Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami’s ‘First Person Singular’ a perplexing disappointment

Lily Zhou
  •  
April 27, 2021
Arts & Life
poet Aracelis Girmay reading on Zoom

Poet Aracelis Girmay on grief, Black motherhood and marrow language

Carly Taylor
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April 25, 2021
Arts & Life
cover image of "Begin by Telling," with the words "also explain / then show her why / send her out to buy" beneath the title

Meg Remy’s ‘Begin by Telling’ crafts a landscape of trauma and storytelling

Lily Nilipour
  •  
April 19, 2021
Arts & Life
poet Victoria Chang reading on Zoom

‘I’m just playing with clay’: Victoria Chang on poetry and language

Lily Nilipour
  •  
April 18, 2021
Arts & Life
Lauren Clark ‘20 (left) and Emily Layden ‘11 (right) in Zoom

Emily Layden ’11 discusses the importance of the feminine perspective in literature

Jed Ngalande
  •  
April 15, 2021
Arts & Life
A headshot of a bespectacled, smiling man

The American people still hold the greatest amount of power, says founder of Citizen University

Jed Ngalande
  •  
April 8, 2021
Arts & Life
artwork of outline of a grandmother and daughter

Sundays with the Other Grandmother

Carolyn Stein
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April 6, 2021
Arts & Life
illustration of a broken vase

The Vase Broke Any Way

Ben Schwartz
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April 5, 2021
Arts & Life
illustration of a hand holding up a kindle to a ray of light

ODE TO MY KINDLE

Nick Lai
  •  
April 4, 2021
Arts & Life
an illustration of a woman leaning her ear against a window

eavesdrop

Sophia Boyd-Fliegel
  •  
April 3, 2021
Arts & Life
painting of a woman, her eyes closed and body wrapped in purple-white clothing

Camille Monet On Her Deathbed, 1879

Carolyn Stein
  •  
April 1, 2021
Arts & Life
the cover of Firmament No. 1, a new literary magazine

‘Firmament No. 1’: A promising new literary magazine from Sublunary Editions

Lily Nilipour
  •  
March 29, 2021
a black and white image of Bernardine Evaristo, author of "Girl, Woman, Other," looking pensive

Books for Women’s History Month

Jared Klegar, Lana Tleimat, Lily Nilipour, Kyla Figueroa and Kirsten Mettler
  •  
March 16, 2021
headshot of author Emily Layden

On her debut novel ‘All Girls’: Interview with Emily Layden ’11

Ellie Wong
  •  
March 15, 2021
cover of "All Girls" with a blue and green plaid cloth background

Emily Layden’s ‘All Girls’ tackles growing up, sexual assault and privilege

Kyla Figueroa
  •  
March 14, 2021
Kindle version of Michel de Montaigne's "Essays" on top of a pile of books

Classics for quarantine: Reading in Michel de Montaigne’s ‘Essays’

Lily Nilipour
  •  
March 10, 2021
Adam Banks, A-lan Holt (director for the Institute for Diversity in the Arts), and Marc Tessier-Lavigne in a Zoom room

‘In Conversation with the Inaugural Poem’ looks toward the future of the US while reflecting on its past

Anuka Mohanpuhr
  •  
March 7, 2021
a plain cover of "Molloy" with the title in green text, and a blue plastic bicycle

Classics for quarantine: Immobility in ‘Molloy’

Lily Nilipour
  •  
March 3, 2021
The Stanford Daily

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