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Lately in literature: How to turn shark stories into existential horror

Leyla Yilmaz
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April 17
Reads
Hieu Minh Nguyen talks with a smile. He is waring a yellow ochre colored overalls and a blue button up underneath . He also has round black glasses on

How ‘8 Mile’ inspired Hieu Minh Nguyen to write poems on queerness

Hana Dao
  •  
April 13
Reads
A graphic of three Stegner Fellows.

Q&A: Stanford’s emerging poets on the arts of language and teaching

Lera Kalinina
  •  
April 6
Reads

Lately in Literature: Grieving art in Rebecca Makkai’s ‘The Great Believers’

Leyla Yilmaz
  •  
March 7
The Grind
A room filled will stacks of books, some in focus while others are not.

Untranslatable: ‘Tsundoku’

From the Community
  •  
April 21, 2022
News
logo of AAAS department

Plan for AAAS departmentalization to be sent to Stanford admin in May

Kyla Figueroa
  •  
March 8, 2022
Reads
Green Library with a fountain in the foreground.

Professor speaks on Steinbeck’s mysterious werewolves

Betty He
  •  
Oct. 24, 2021
headshots of Stegner Fellows F.T. Kola and Jim Whiteside

An intimate Stegner Fellows reading with Jim Whiteside and F.T. Kola

Ellie Wong
  •  
March 1, 2021
Opinions
(Photo: KEVIN HSU/The Stanford Daily)

On Stanford’s Nobel Prize coverage and community

Melina Walling
  •  
Oct. 21, 2020
Speakers & Events
(Photo: CAMRYN PAK/The Stanford Daily)

Lucy Kalanithi explains how late husband’s transition from physician to writer transformed her outlook on life

Camryn Pak
  •  
Oct. 6, 2020
Humor
(Photo edit: Rae Wymer)

NSA Agent takes over Zoom English class to talk about 1984

Rae Wymer
  •  
July 17, 2020
The Grind
(Photo: Pexels)

Writing my thesis at the end of the world

Jen Ehrlich
  •  
May 18, 2020
Reads
Stanford English professor and celebrated poet Eavan Boland (Photo: L.A. CICERO/Stanford News Service)

On the death of a poet

Lisa Liu
  •  
May 1, 2020
Opinions

‘Black Milk & Hope’: Reflections on losing Professor Eavan Boland

Jen Ehrlich
  •  
April 29, 2020
The Grind
What taking two poetry classes simultaneously has taught me Courtesy of Unsplash

A case for poetry, by a previous hater

Angie Lee
  •  
Jan. 30, 2020
Op-Ed Columnist
Susan Sontag, famed American writer and critic, inspires columnist Emily Elott to reflect on literary criticism. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Why I can’t write literary criticism

Emily Elott
  •  
Oct. 25, 2019
Opinions
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How literature died for me

Emily Elott
  •  
Sept. 27, 2019
News
Courtesy of Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service

Obituary: Professor, renowned writer John C. L’Heureux dies at 84

Leily Rezvani
  •  
April 30, 2019
Jackson Pollock, No. 17A / Courtesy of Wikimedia.

Giving avant-gardism the bird

Emily Elott
  •  
Feb. 22, 2019
EMILY WAN / The Stanford Daily

JAPAN 121 sheds light on the fundamental role of translation

Emily Wan
  •  
Feb. 13, 2019
The Stanford Daily

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