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Arts & Life
A crescent moon and stars against a blue background. "Sea of Tranquility" is in white letters.

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
Jasmine Liu reviews Roberto Bolaño's "The Savage Detectives," an epic of nomadism spanning time and space. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Bolaño and Deleuze: The exhilaration of nomadic wanderings and writings

Jasmine Liu
  •  
June 10, 2020
Reads
Carly Taylor delivers a riveting prove into Ruchika Tomar's award-winning debut novel "A Prayer for Travelers." (Photo: Penguin Random House)

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
Arts & Life
A young woman reflects on loneliness and intimacy. (Illustration: Erin Stoodley)

Fiction: Plan B

Erin Stoodley
  •  
May 25, 2020
Reads
Adania Shibli's new novel revolves around a young woman's quest to understand the capture and rape of a Palestinian teenager in 1949. (Photo: New Directions)

‘Minor Details’ hiding in the desert sands

Jasmine Liu
  •  
May 23, 2020
Reads
A young boy named Galal sits alone at lunch, fasting, when another boy sits beside him. (Cartoon: Clementine Chou/The Stanford Daily)

Fiction: Galal’s Parlor

Omar Rafik El-Sabrout
  •  
May 15, 2020
Reads
Lily Zhou reviews Meng Jin's debut novel "Little Gods," the story of a brilliant, deceased Chinese physicist told by everyone but herself. (Photo: Debutiful)

‘Little Gods,’ big distances

Lily Zhou
  •  
May 14, 2020
Arts & Life
A review of Netflix’s recently release limited series, “Unorthodox,” examined with a lens of feminist liberation and Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening.” (Photo: Netflix)

Esty and Edna: Uncovering the parallels between Netflix’s ‘Unorthodox’ and Chopin’s ‘The Awakening’

Roberta Gonzalez Marquez
  •  
May 13, 2020
Reads
Roberta Gonzalez-Marquez reviews Haruki Murakami's newest short story that deals with youth, romance, and suicide (Photo: The Beatles)

Youth, death and Murakami’s Beatles

Roberta Gonzalez Marquez
  •  
March 2, 2020
The Grind
(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Why not Pokemon Go?

Angela Zhao
  •  
Feb. 5, 2020
Reads
Yukiko Motoya's "The Lonesome Bodybuilder" paints domestic life with a magical realist coat, exploring the lives of characters isolated from society or caught in the classic battle between the sexes. (Photo: Maudlin House)

The lonesome storybuilder

Scott Stevens
  •  
Feb. 4, 2020
Arts & Life
"New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction" collects creatively and richly told stories that all fit within a remarkably concise word count. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

A medley of microfictions

Scott Stevens
  •  
Nov. 20, 2019
The Stanford Daily

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