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A graphic depicting a globe spinning on top of an open book and a person lays staring into the book.

World of Words: ‘Innards’ dissects our discomfort with the past

Breanna Burke
  •  
April 29, 2024
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Three books pink, green and blue depicted in a backdrop of a blue sky with flowers and grass at the bottom and yellow butterflies flying on top

Bookworm bulletin: Spring book recommendations

Leyla Yilmaz, Cate Burtner, Miriam Awan, Dan Kubota, Blyss Cleveland and Grace Zhao
  •  
April 26, 2024
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John Green sits comfortably, holding a microphone, as he addresses an audience.

John Green talks ‘Turtles,’ YouTube and turning away from YA

Anjali Ragupathi
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April 23, 2024
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In her novel "Ripe," Sarah Rose Etter captures the toxicity of the technocratic Bay Area culture through masterful world building and satire. (Graphic: DA-HEE KIM/The Stanford Daily)

Stanford TBR: ‘Ripe’ delivers a visceral Silicon Valley satire

Cate Burtner
  •  
April 16, 2024
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A graphic depicting globe spinning on top of an open book and a person lays staring into the book.

World of Words: ‘Breath, Eyes, Memory’ is a reckoning

Breanna Burke
  •  
April 10, 2024
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Drawing of colorful books on a shelf with their sleeve towards the audience, the sleeves have "TBR" written on them and the writing on the background reads "Stanford To Be Read"

Stanford TBR: Yaa Gyasi’s ‘Transcendent Kingdom’ reads like a gift

Cate Burtner
  •  
April 2, 2024
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The Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), housed in Building 360. Arches and Hoover Tower visible at dusk.

Students spring into humanities research over break

Sonnet Xu
  •  
March 13, 2024
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Student performer reads spoken word poetry in front of a well-lit stage with purple blinds that reflect the yellow spot-light.

Poetry Live unearths aliveness and authenticity

Cate Burtner
  •  
March 12, 2024
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Different phases of the moon going from crescent to full moon and back to crescent are depicted in gold in front of a red background and "The Book of Love" is written around the moons

Lyrical love winds and turns in Pulitzer Prize finalist’s debut novel

Julia Donlon
  •  
March 10, 2024
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A graphic depicting globe spinning on top of an open book and a person lays staring into the book.

World of Words: ‘Lizard’ unveils the extraordinary in the mundane

Breanna Burke
  •  
March 6, 2024
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A graphic of Kiley Reid's profile drawn in blue stands on the right side, the left side has a text in yellow that reads "Come & Get It" in front of a green background

Almost, but not quite: Kiley Reid’s ‘Come and Get It’ falls short

Cate Burtner
  •  
Feb. 29, 2024
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A child looks at a globe floating above an open book

World of Words: Brokenness as being in ‘There Is an Anger That Moves’

Breanna Burke
  •  
Feb. 22, 2024
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Drawing of colorful books on a shelf with their sleeve towards the audience, the sleeves have "TBR" written on them and the writing on the background reads "Stanford To Be Read"

Stanford TBR: Re-examining 2020 in Zadie Smith’s ‘Intimations’

Cate Burtner
  •  
Feb. 20, 2024
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Graphic of a red heart with ribbons across it and a book on top. The book has pages open, with a heart drawing on the right page. The background is pink and adorned with stars.

Turning the page on love

Sava Tamanaha
  •  
Feb. 15, 2024
Arts & Life
Loose canon is written in bright green on a crumpled piece of black paper

Shelves for contemporary readers: Recycle Bookstore

Ellen Yang
  •  
Feb. 6, 2024
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A packed audience listens to the speaker behind a lectern.

New York Times bestseller documents journeys of the undocumented

Estefany Mendoza Rodriguez
  •  
Jan. 31, 2024
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Empty plaza, showing Claw water fountain and Stanford Bookstore in the background.

Aparna Verma ’20 on ‘The Phoenix King,’ centering South Asian stories and ‘BookTok’

Kyla Figueroa
  •  
Jan. 31, 2024
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Front desk of Florence Moore Hall.

SLE challenges the boundaries of the Western canon

Miriam Awan
  •  
Jan. 26, 2024
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An animated book titled "The Dawning of Diversity How Chicanos Helped Changed Stanford University by Frank O Sotomayor" is displayed with Book Review written repeatedly in bold next to it.

‘Dawning of Diversity’ narrates Mexican American students’ stories of the 1970s

Cate Burtner
  •  
Jan. 25, 2024
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An author delivering a talk in the Stanford Humanities Center.

Pulitzer Prize winner reimagines Netanyahu’s trek to America

George Porteous
  •  
Jan. 19, 2024
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