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"The Vela" is a serial speculative fiction story, but it addresses the current refugee crisis and climate change (courtesy of Serial Box).

Unveiling ‘The Vela’: An interview with Becky Chambers, S. L. Huang and Yoon Ha Lee (Part 2)

Shana E. Hadi
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March 7, 2019
Arts & Life
"The Vela" is a serial speculative fiction story, but it addresses the current refugee crisis and climate change (courtesy of Serial Box).

Unveiling ‘The Vela’: An interview with Becky Chambers, S. L. Huang and Yoon Ha Lee (Part 1)

Shana E. Hadi
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March 6, 2019
Arts & Life
In her poetry, Stegner fellow Monica Sok considers her Cambodian heritage (courtesy of Sy Abudu).

Stegner Fellows Gothataone Meong and Monica Sok read poetry and prose to a packed room

Angela Yang
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March 4, 2019
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Fiction: Under (the) covers

Inyoung Choi
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March 1, 2019
In her landmark essays "A Room of One's Own" and "Professions for Women," Virginia Woolf critiques female archetypes (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

Woolf, witches and wives: Coming of age through archetype

Claire Francis
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Feb. 27, 2019
The Stanford Shakespeare Company presents "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (courtesy of Frank Chen).

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ delves into the trials of love through fantasy

Shana E. Hadi
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Feb. 22, 2019
In her new book "Becoming," former First Lady Michelle Obama concentrates on her own personal causes rather than politics (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

Michelle Obama: Putting the first in First Lady

Sarah Kim
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Feb. 21, 2019
At a Stegner Fellow reading on February 6, Jay Deshpande shared an unpublished poem (courtesy of Jay Deshpande).

Stegner fellows Neha Chaudhary-Kamdar and Jay Deshpande entrance and move listeners

Dax Duong
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Feb. 20, 2019
"Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse" demonstrates that some books must be seen on screen (MARK YORK/The Stanford Daily).

Into the Adaptationverse – ‘Spiderverse’ proves that adaptations are necessary

Mark York
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Feb. 19, 2019
Arts & Life
Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" is one of the most bitter love stories ever written (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

Reading between the lines for love

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Lily Nilipour, Carly Taylor, Scott Stevens, Mark York, Claire Francis and Shana E. Hadi
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Feb. 14, 2019
Dave Hickey writes about art, music and culture honestly and unpretentiously (FRAZER HARRISON/Getty Images).

My summer of Dave Hickey

Ali Vaughan
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Feb. 13, 2019
Joyce Carol Oates is the author of "We Were the Mulvaneys" (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

Joyce Carol Oates chronicles the fall of an American family in ‘We Were the Mulvaneys’

Scott Stevens
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Feb. 8, 2019
Maggie Nelson is the acclaimed author of "The Argonauts" and "The Act of Cruelty" (courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation).

Maggie Nelson shatters categories and defies expectations with new writing

Angela Yang
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Feb. 6, 2019
n "Her Body and Other Parties," Carmen Maria Machado discusses the debilitating effects of trauma on the female psyche (courtesy of Graywolf Press).

‘Her Body and Other Parties’ gives shape to female stories

Shana E. Hadi
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Feb. 4, 2019
In "Call Me By Your Name," director Luca Guadagnino uses visuals, not voiceovers, to convey the characters' complex emotions (courtesy of Mongrel Media and Sony Pictures Classics).

What movies can do that books cannot

Carly Taylor
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Feb. 1, 2019
Arts & Life
Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" complicates genre conventions and conceptions of gender (courtesy of Flickr).

Reading for new beginnings

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Katherine Silk, Scott Stevens, Carly Taylor, Mark York and Shana E. Hadi
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Jan. 28, 2019
"Less" follows the misadventures of an aging writer (courtesy of Lee Boudreaux).

‘Less’-ons: An interview with Andrew Sean Greer, Part 2

Gracie Newman
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Jan. 24, 2019
Andrew Sean Greer's book "Less" won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (courtesy of Flickr).

‘Less’-ons: An interview with Andrew Sean Greer, Part 1

Gracie Newman
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Jan. 23, 2019
In "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," J.K. Rowling calls attention to her characters' personal problems and not her sweeping story (MARK YORK/The Stanford Daily).

Wizard puberty and other less important matters

Mark York
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Jan. 16, 2019
The Los Angeles Public Library uses Overdrive to make books available online (courtesy of Flickr).

An ode to OverDrive

Shana E. Hadi
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Jan. 11, 2019
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