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Photo of a bookshelf

Three books I couldn’t put down in January

Audrey Chang
  •  
Feb. 1
Reads
Adam Johnson headshot

Adam Johnson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author behind ‘The Wayfinder’

Kristen Lai
  •  
Sept. 25
Magazine
Upon taking notice of the deer standing shock-still in the middle of the walk-in refrigerator, Iris is reminded of how often she has been let down by restaurant bureaucracy. (Graphic: DA-HEE KIM/The Stanford Daily)

The Deer

Charlotte Cao
  •  
June 6
The Grind
An empty parking lot. (Photo: ANNA BLOOM/The Stanford Daily)

The American: Part 1

Sachin Singh
  •  
May 13
The Grind
A reflection on nectarines. (Graphic: ANANYA UDAYGIRI/The Stanford Daily)

A nectarine

Ananya Udaygiri
  •  
March 13, 2025
Reads
Author Gheed El Bizri in front of a shelf, smiling at the camera

In ‘Les Obsessions D’un Poète,’ Gheed El Bizri ’25 questions art, dreams and obsessions

Catherine Wu
  •  
Feb. 10, 2025
Reads
A book is open and inside reads 'Rage on the Page.'

Rage on the Page: ‘Boy Parts’ pictures the art of uncomfortable truths

Melisa Ezgi Guleryuz
  •  
Jan. 14, 2025
Reads
Rucy Cui and D.M. Spratley sit side by side on stage, speaking into microphones.

Second Stegner Fellow reading explores poignancy and joy

Shayla Fitzsimmons-Call
  •  
Nov. 10, 2024
Fiction
a cartoon of scared tree standing in the dark

Fiction: ‘Doomsday Manor’

Cate Burtner
  •  
Nov. 3, 2024
Magazine
The shape of two girls sit face-to-face against an AI-looking background.

Imposter syndrome

Kaylee Chan
  •  
June 25, 2024
Reads
An author delivering a talk in the Stanford Humanities Center.

Pulitzer Prize winner reimagines Netanyahu’s trek to America

George Porteous
  •  
Jan. 19, 2024
Reads
Heart-shaped pages of a book

‘Yours for the Taking’ is a subpar speculation on feminism and the planet

Cate Burtner
  •  
Jan. 16, 2024
Fiction
Woman embraces the outline of a man (illustration)

Auden

Michelle Fu
  •  
May 28, 2023
Fiction
A young man putting eyeglasses on his face over a purple background

Spectacles

Kristofer Nino
  •  
May 28, 2023
Academics
A graphic with a silhouette of a person speaking into a microphone, letters floating in the air like smoke

Students’ creative writing flourishes in Levinthal Tutorials

Sophia Artandi
  •  
April 30, 2023
Reads
A red-haired woman and a man in a pink shirt laugh and speak to the audience

Writers Jalen Eutsey and Ashley Hand share the power in the mundane

Shreya Komar
  •  
Jan. 26, 2023
Reads
Open book with "Nostalgia Nook" on the lefthand side and a red book cover with a stick figure wearing a backpack.

Nostalgia Nook: “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” and the Empire of Jeff Kinney

Isabella Saracco
  •  
Nov. 13, 2022
Reads
Over a faint backdrop of open books, the text: "lately in LITERATURE with Leyla Yilmaz." "Literature" is stylized in multiple fonts over red, green, and pink rectangles, as in a collage made from magazines.

Lately in Literature: ‘Can women kill?’ asks Eliza Clark in debut novel, ‘Boy Parts’

Leyla Yilmaz
  •  
Oct. 11, 2022
Arts & Life
Text says "Lately in Literature" against a multi-colored background, picture of brunette girl in the foreground

Lately in Literature: From colonialism to the 21st century in Natasha Brown’s ‘Assembly’

Leyla Yilmaz
  •  
May 30, 2022
Reads
Close-up view of a set of numbered red books, spines facing out like on a bookshelf

William Brewer’s ‘The Red Arrow’ is a complex portrait of a struggling writer

Lily Zhou
  •  
May 29, 2022
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