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Do we still need to read and teach the classics?

Joelle Chien
  •  
Aug. 30, 2020
Arts & Life
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Quarantine reading has restored my belief in humanity

Max Zonana
  •  
Aug. 25, 2020
Reads
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Being an ally to BLM through the arts, Part I

Karen Mai and Leanna Sun
  •  
Aug. 21, 2020
Reads
A bookshelf of colorful books in a library.

Last-minute quarantine reads

Julie Ham
  •  
Aug. 21, 2020
Arts & Life
An illustration of Franny by David Richardson, aptly showing how disturbed and disdainful she often is. (Source: Litkicks)

A rumination on disillusionment: J. D. Salinger’s ‘Franny and Zooey’

Smiti Mittal
  •  
Aug. 19, 2020
Reads
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Stanford Rewired: students found digital magazine bridging technology and society

Viraj Mehta
  •  
Aug. 13, 2020
Arts & Life
(Photo: Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Between the World and Me, Stamped from the Beginning)

7 books that will help educate you as an ally for the Black community

Justine Ha
  •  
Aug. 1, 2020
Arts & Life
An image of Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks,’ a painting analysed in depth in Laing’s ‘The Lonely City.’ (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

A quarantine essential: Olivia Laing’s history of loneliness and art in New York City

Smiti Mittal
  •  
July 17, 2020
Arts & Life
Reading metafiction is not unlike standing in a room of mirrors. (Graphic: CHASITY HALE/The Stanford Daily)

A room of mirrors

Lana Tleimat
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July 8, 2020
Arts & Life
An image of ‘The Relief of Lucknow’ by Thomas Jones Baker, depicting one of the many sieges of 1857 that inspired ‘The Siege of Krishnapur.’ (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).

When a white author writes about colonialism: J. G. Farrell’s ‘The Siege of Krishnapur’

Smiti Mittal
  •  
July 6, 2020
Arts & Life
A Tale from the Decameron, by John William Waterhouse, 1916. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Epidemic escapism in Boccacio’s ‘Decameron’

Smiti Mittal
  •  
June 29, 2020
Reads
Jasmine Liu reviews Roberto Bolaño's "The Savage Detectives," an epic of nomadism spanning time and space. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Bolaño and Deleuze: The exhilaration of nomadic wanderings and writings

Jasmine Liu
  •  
June 10, 2020
Reads
Poet Angeline Truong honors George Floyd with a retrospective look at 9/11. (Photo: Outschool)

Poetry: ‘at a school assembly for 9/11’

Angeline Ai-Nhi Truong
  •  
June 10, 2020
Reads
Carly Taylor delivers a riveting prove into Ruchika Tomar's award-winning debut novel "A Prayer for Travelers." (Photo: Penguin Random House)

Craft and patience in ‘A Prayer for Travelers’

Carly Taylor
  •  
June 3, 2020
Arts & Life
A beach walker seeks refuge from probing eyes. (Illustration: Erin Stoodley)

Fiction: Ventura

Erin Stoodley
  •  
May 29, 2020
Arts & Life
A hiking backpack, cache of personal worries and hopes. (Photo: WhereNext)

Poetry: Ode on an REI Backpack

Rachel D'Agui
  •  
May 29, 2020
Reads
A poem on family knowledge and a father's odyssey across the sea. (Photo: JORGE GUERRERO/AFP)

Poetry: ‘the return’

Angeline Ai-Nhi Truong
  •  
May 27, 2020
Arts & Life
A young woman reflects on loneliness and intimacy. (Illustration: Erin Stoodley)

Fiction: Plan B

Erin Stoodley
  •  
May 25, 2020
Reads
Adania Shibli's new novel revolves around a young woman's quest to understand the capture and rape of a Palestinian teenager in 1949. (Photo: New Directions)

‘Minor Details’ hiding in the desert sands

Jasmine Liu
  •  
May 23, 2020
Arts & Life
Leah Chase reviews Haruki Murakami's novel about a man who decides to get to the bottom of his mysterious expulsion from his college friend group decades prior. (Photo: Yuko Shimizu)

Disappearances unexplained in ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’

Leah Chase
  •  
May 20, 2020
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