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headshots of Stegner Fellows F.T. Kola and Jim Whiteside

An intimate Stegner Fellows reading with Jim Whiteside and F.T. Kola

Ellie Wong
  •  
March 1, 2021
right: cover of "The Scapegoat," with a crow carrying a cross flying above a church; left: headshot of author Sarah Davis

Sara Davis’ ‘The Scapegoat’: A Lynchian mystery set at Stanford

Carly Taylor
  •  
Feb. 25, 2021
cover image of "Love in the Time of Cholera" - a woman reclining in the foreground amidst leaves

Classics for quarantine: Duration in ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’

Lily Nilipour
  •  
Feb. 24, 2021
headshot of Claire Meuschke, author of "Upend"

History, family and paint colors in Stegner Fellow Claire Meuschke’s ‘Upend’

Jaehyeon Park
  •  
Feb. 23, 2021
headshot of Angie Thomas, author of "The Hate U Give"

Recommended reads for Black History Month

Carly Taylor, Kyla Figueroa, Lily Nilipour, Kirsten Mettler, Richard Coca and Valerie Trapp
  •  
Feb. 23, 2021
headshot of author R.O. Kwon

Longing and obsession in R.O. Kwon’s ‘The Incendiaries’

Lily Zhou
  •  
Feb. 22, 2021
A desk arrangement of a copy of William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury," a clock, a pencil, and a notepad

Classics for quarantine: Time in ‘The Sound and the Fury’

Lily Nilipour
  •  
Feb. 17, 2021
A Zoom screenshot from the webinar, featuring the four panelists and professor Mark Greif.

‘Be shameless:’ Logic Magazine editors talk tech, small magazine publishing

Lily Nilipour
  •  
Feb. 9, 2021
a starkly lit office row of empty cubicles

Identity, absurdity and loneliness in ‘Temporary’

Cindy Xin
  •  
Feb. 8, 2021
Madeleine Thien. (Photo: Simon Fraser University)

Rewriting time in ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing’

Lily Zhou
  •  
Feb. 7, 2021
On the left, the book cover for "Viral BS"; on the right, a photograph of Dr. Seema Yasmin

Debunking medical myths with Dr. Seema Yasmin

Kristel Tjandra
  •  
Feb. 3, 2021
Arts & Life
cartoon of baby with scratches on its face and rosy cheeks swaddled tightly in a pink blanket, on an orange background

Elizabeth Tallent meditates on perfectionism in “Scratched”

Richard Coca
  •  
Feb. 2, 2021
Arts & Life
Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute (Photo: Stanford Daily File Photo)

Transcending caste with Isabel Wilkerson

Hana Dao
  •  
Jan. 31, 2021
Arts & Life
black and white cover of hemingway's a moveable feast depicting a seated man drinking a cup of coffee outside a cafe in Paris

Escape to 1920s Paris with Hemingway’s memoir ‘A Moveable Feast’

Lily Nilipour
  •  
Jan. 24, 2021
Arts & Life
various drawings of houses

The poetics of quarantined space: Revisiting Bachelard

Carly Taylor
  •  
Jan. 17, 2021
Arts & Life
Sanjana Friedman describes how Henry Miller's notoriously raunchy novel "Tropic of Cancer" has lost its effect on modern readers. (Photo: Obelisk Publishing)

Leave something to the imagination

Sanjana Friedman
  •  
Jan. 13, 2021
Arts & Life
cover of All Your Twisted Secrets showing the faces of six high school students

Diana Urban’s ‘All Your Twisted Secrets’ expertly combines suspense, soapy teen drama

Alexandra Chang
  •  
Jan. 12, 2021
outdoor photo of the author ottessa moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh’s unstoppable imagination in ‘Death in Her Hands’

Carly Taylor
  •  
Jan. 11, 2021
Arts & Life
Book cover of Clue to the Universe, showing a boy and a girl looking up at a sky full of stars

Navigating grief in senior Christina Li’s debut novel ‘Clues to the Universe’

Ellie Wong
  •  
Jan. 10, 2021
Arts & Life
headshot of Christina Li

On her debut novel ‘Clues to the Universe’: Interview with Christina Li ’21

Ellie Wong
  •  
Jan. 10, 2021
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