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Fiction
Woman embraces the outline of a man (illustration)

Auden

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

Spectacles

Kristofer Nino
  •  
May 28
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
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
Reads

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

Isabella Saracco
  •  
Nov. 13
Reads

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

Leyla Yilmaz
  •  
Oct. 11
Arts & Life

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
Reads

Elif Batuman’s ‘Either/Or’ is endearingly tedious

Lily Zhou
  •  
May 25, 2022
Arts & Life

Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Sea of Tranquility’ is an overly simplistic exploration of Nihilism

Lily Zhou
  •  
May 24, 2022
Arts & Life
Red book cover with sandstone arches in the background

Q&A: Aparna Verma ’20 on her debut novel “The Boy with Fire”

Ximena Sanchez Martinez
  •  
May 2, 2022
The Grind
Top-down view of braided hair.

Answering six common questions about Afro-textured hair

Ecy King
  •  
Jan. 24, 2022
Reads
A decorative photo of an open book in the foreground and a waterfall in the background

Book Review: ‘The Ones We’re Meant to Find’ poses critical questions on climate accountability and personal identity

Melissa Tariq Rodriguez
  •  
Oct. 7, 2021
Arts & Life
A graphic with a silhouette of a person speaking into a microphone, letters floating in the air like smoke

Undergraduate storytellers shine at Levinthal Reading

Rosana Maris Arias
  •  
May 20, 2021
Arts & Life
An illustration of Franny by David Richardson, aptly showing how disturbed and disdainful she often is. (Source: Litkicks)

A rumination on disillusionment: J. D. Salinger’s ‘Franny and Zooey’

Smiti Mittal
  •  
Aug. 19, 2020
Arts & Life
An image of ‘The Relief of Lucknow’ by Thomas Jones Baker, depicting one of the many sieges of 1857 that inspired ‘The Siege of Krishnapur.’ (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).

When a white author writes about colonialism: J. G. Farrell’s ‘The Siege of Krishnapur’

Smiti Mittal
  •  
July 6, 2020
Arts & Life
A Tale from the Decameron, by John William Waterhouse, 1916. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Epidemic escapism in Boccacio’s ‘Decameron’

Smiti Mittal
  •  
June 29, 2020
Reads

Bolaño and Deleuze: The exhilaration of nomadic wanderings and writings

Jasmine Liu
  •  
June 10, 2020
Reads

Craft and patience in ‘A Prayer for Travelers’

Carly Taylor
  •  
June 3, 2020
Arts & Life
A beach walker seeks refuge from probing eyes. (Illustration: Erin Stoodley)

Fiction: Ventura

Erin Stoodley
  •  
May 29, 2020
The Stanford Daily

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