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University
Woman stands with her arms crossed.

Historian Londa Schiebinger awarded the 2026 Centennial Medal 

Kayla Chan
  •  
May 29
The Grind
Collage of photos of books and bookstore displays, with a photo of Ribka in the center

Write-off: On studying English at Stanford

Ribka Desta
  •  
May 20
Reads
Photo of the red door that leads into Linden Tree Books.

One for the Books: The Los Altos street with something for every reader

Annabelle Chang
  •  
May 6
Reads
Hands with nails painted red hold a human heart inside a rib cage

Dirty Hungry Homosexuals: ‘The Moth Diaries’ merges obsessive queerness with mental illness

Dayanara Yepez Ramirez
  •  
April 28
Reads
Signs on bookshelves at Kepler's

Kepler’s Books remains hub for literature and activism in the Bay 

Emerson Prentice
  •  
Jan. 4
Reads
The textbooks we know, we love and we loathe. (Graphic: ANANYA UDAYGIRI/The Stanford Daily)

Listicle: The textbooks Stanford can’t forget

Allie Skalnik, Emerson Prentice, Emmett Chung, Chris Procaccino, Chloe Shannon Wong and Kelly Wang
  •  
Oct. 15
University
A black and white headshot of Cornel West.

Former US presidential candidate discusses intellectual history at SLE lecture

Sam Solomon
  •  
June 1, 2025
Culture
Students enjoy the sunset at Lake Lagunita. (Photo: AVNI VATS/The Stanford Daily)

What does mental health mean to The Daily?

Allie Skalnik, Chloe Shannon Wong, Madisyn Cunningham, Grace Zhao and Blyss Cleveland
  •  
May 22, 2025
Senior Column
Ellen Yang at the Main Quad arch, wearing a white dress and grad stole

Yang | Writing the end of a suicide novel

Ellen Yang
  •  
May 22, 2025
Reads
Discover your next great read this spring! (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Listicle: What’s Stanford reading?

Allie Skalnik, Ellaheh Gohari, Blyss Cleveland, Hana Dao, Kelly Wang, Miriam Awan, Melisa Ezgi Guleryuz and Cate Burtner
  •  
May 7, 2025
From the Community
books on shelf

From the Community | The death of authentic reading culture

From the Community
  •  
April 27, 2025
Humor
It's just one more Lima Bean. Just one more... (Graphic: DA-HEE KIM/Stanford Daily)

‘A Bad Case of Stripes’ review: We mustn’t forget about the lima beans

Cate Burtner
  •  
March 31, 2025
Reads
An open-page spread of "Creatures of the Deep: a Pop-Up book" by Ernst Haeckel and Maike Bierderstadt in front of other pop-up books from side view

‘Panoply of Pop-Ups’ exhibition unfolds at the Bowes Art and Architecture Library

Kayla Chan
  •  
Feb. 10, 2025
Reads
Interior of Feldman's Books with lots of books and eclectic decorations.

‘A pillar of the community’: Feldman’s Books, Menlo Park’s creative hub 

Sanaya Robinson-Shah
  •  
Feb. 5, 2025
Events
Novelist, storyteller and member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma Tommy Orange spoke at the Stanford Faculty Club on the pretenders in American history. (Photo: CAYDEN GU/The Stanford Daily)

Tommy Orange presents on writing and pretending

Cate Burtner
  •  
Feb. 3, 2025
Screen
Two hands hold open a book with the words "Rage on the Page" sprawled in it in black and red.

Rage on the Page: The howl of ‘Nightbitch’ the film barely echoes the novel

Melisa Ezgi Guleryuz
  •  
Jan. 23, 2025
Reads
A shelf of kids books with the covers facing out on display.

Little Libraries transforms clinic waiting rooms into book nooks

Kayla Chan
  •  
Jan. 15, 2025
Reads
An animated book lies open with passages of text covered up by black blocks to represent book banning.

Behind the nationwide rise of book bans

Sanaya Robinson-Shah
  •  
Dec. 4, 2024
Reads
An animated open computer sits on a desk next to some coffee, glasses and pencils against a yellow background.

Back-to-school books: Reading that shaped us

Cate Burtner, Kelly Wang, Sanaya Robinson-Shah, Anya Vedantambe and Grace Zhao
  •  
Oct. 22, 2024
The Grind
Empty plaza with dark green fountain structure in the middle, trees on both sides of the image.

Geography of My Heart: The Stanford Bookstore

Dan Kubota
  •  
Oct. 22, 2024
The Stanford Daily

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