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Cam & Beau book cover

The destruction wrought by things unknown: A review of Maria Cichosz’s ‘Cam & Beau’

Jen Ehrlich
  •  
Dec. 15, 2020
Arts & Life
Sylvia Beach and James Joyce at Beach’s bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, in 1922

Reading ‘Ulysses’

Lily Nilipour
  •  
Nov. 15, 2020
Arts & Life
A colorful, abstract book cover.

Glennon Doyle plays God in new memoir ‘Untamed’

Valerie Trapp
  •  
Nov. 15, 2020
Arts & Life
Photo: Sy Abudu

‘A Nail the Evening Hangs On’: An exploration of personal and collective memory

Lily Nilipour
  •  
Nov. 4, 2020
Arts & Life
Photo: Copper Canyon Press

‘It started with joy’: Monica Sok talks poetry, embracing heritage in art creation

Ellie Wong
  •  
Nov. 4, 2020
Arts & Life
Photo: Hanover Square Press

Snow-covered murder mystery: A review of John Banville’s new novel

Lily Nilipour
  •  
Nov. 2, 2020
Arts & Life
Black and white photo of the author

‘The Souls of Yellow Folk’ and lovability under American capitalism

Cindy Xin
  •  
Nov. 1, 2020
Arts & Life
Depiction of Octavia Butler's story 'Bloodchild' showing an unidentifiable insect with many legs emerging from a boy with a large whole through his chest

Spooky reads for Halloween in quarantine

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Lily Nilipour, Ellie Wong, Valerie Trapp, Emma Kexin Wang, Shana E. Hadi, Cindy Xin and Carly Taylor
  •  
Oct. 29, 2020
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Headshot of the author, C Pam Zhang

Land, language and legacy in ‘How Much of These Hills Is Gold’

Emma Kexin Wang
  •  
Oct. 27, 2020
Arts & Life
Portrait of Louise Gluck

Louise Glück explores humanity’s relationship to nature in ‘Averno’

Lily Zhou
  •  
Oct. 26, 2020
Arts & Life
book covers of the five books suggested in the article

5 romance novels to cure your pandemic loneliness

Mara Stojanovic
  •  
Oct. 21, 2020
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Photo: DC Comics

‘Swamp Thing: Twin Branches’ and stepping through the one-way door

Erin Woo
  •  
Oct. 18, 2020
Arts & Life
Photo: Tanglewood Publishing.

Exploring female friendship and love in ‘The Bookweaver’s Daughter’

Ellie Wong
  •  
Oct. 15, 2020
Arts & Life
(Photo: New Yorker Festival website)

Margaret Atwood and Jia Tolentino talk Harper’s Letter and horoscopes at New Yorker Festival

Valerie Trapp
  •  
Oct. 14, 2020
Reads
Photo: Amulet Books

The amazing Avatar Kyoshi novels you never knew existed

Ben Schwartz
  •  
Oct. 13, 2020
Arts & Life
A black and white image of a woman (Louise Glück) posing with her hands behind her head.

The story behind a Nobel: Louise Glück’s career and a new era for awards

Jose Luis Sabau
  •  
Oct. 12, 2020
Arts & Life
Photo: Oneworld Publications.

Mythology and memory in ‘Bestiary’

Lily Zhou
  •  
Oct. 8, 2020
Arts & Life
Photo: Two Lines Press

‘On Lighthouses’ and the solitude of the self

Lily Nilipour
  •  
Oct. 5, 2020
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Cathy Park Hong. (Photo: Beowulf Sheehan)

‘Minor Feelings’ and the inarticulability of Asian American identity

Cindy Xin
  •  
Sept. 30, 2020
Arts & Life
A close up of Angela Duckworth and Bettina Love

Three Books 2020: What Stanford’s incoming class should take away from Angela Duckworth and Bettina Love

Kyla Figueroa
  •  
Sept. 17, 2020
The Stanford Daily

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