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The Grind
A reflective, dark wall at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, containing various English adverbs sporadically lit up all over

Letter from the editors: Introducing ‘Untranslatable’

Matthew Turk
  •  
Feb. 22, 2022
University
(Photos counter-clockwise from top-right: TIA DUFOUR via Wikimedia Commons, JARED KLEGAR/The Stanford Daily, KAREN HICKEY/isiphotos.com)

Unprecedented: Class of 2021 graduates after a year like no other

Michael Espinosa
  •  
June 12, 2021
The Grind
2020 ended the decade instead of starting it, which means that I have another excuse to, once again, start us off with a handful of poems. Photo: Unsplash

8 poems to (re)start the decade with

Nestor Walters
  •  
Jan. 18, 2021
Reflections & Advice
a picture of a book

On universality in literature

Emma Kexin Wang
  •  
Oct. 21, 2020
Academics
Diversify Our Narrative (photo: Diversify Our Narrative Instagram)

Diversify Our Narrative: California students demand curriculum change

Kira Sterling
  •  
July 16, 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
Arts & Life
Leah Chase reviews Haruki Murakami's novel about a man who decides to get to the bottom of his mysterious expulsion from his college friend group decades prior. (Photo: Yuko Shimizu)

Disappearances unexplained in ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’

Leah Chase
  •  
May 20, 2020
Reads
Patrick Phillips discusses judging for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and shares his wisdom on the study and craft of poetry. (Photo: Marion Ettlinger)

Pulitzers and poetic forms: An interview with Patrick Phillips

Scott Stevens
  •  
May 19, 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
Omar Rafik El-Sabrout investigates the first novel in Naguib Mahfouz's "The Cairo Trilogy." (Photo: Anchor Publishing)

No longer preserved: A retrospective of Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘Palace Walk’ (غير محفوظ: “بين القصرين”, كتاب نجيب محفوظ)

Omar Rafik El-Sabrout
  •  
May 4, 2020
Reads
"The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," "Runaway" and others are featured as reads' writers recommendations for Valentine's Day 2020. (Photo: Penguin Books)

Loving lit: Valentine’s Day reads

Scott Stevens, Maya Czeneszew, Shana E. Hadi and Betty He
  •  
Feb. 11, 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
The Grind
(Photo: Unsplash)

The most horrid assigned readings

Malia Mendez
  •  
Jan. 7, 2020
Arts & Life
Wikimedia Commons

‘If Beale Street Could Talk’

Eric Tang
  •  
Nov. 3, 2019
World & Nation
A Stanford drop-out achieved widespread renown not in the startup scene or through sports championships but in bookstores and libraries across America. John Steinbeck, who died in 1968, attended the University on and off for six years beginning in 1919, before leaving without a degree. (Photo: Octubre CCC/Flickr)

Storage unit full of John Steinbeck personal belongings, manuscripts will soon be up for auction

Cooper Veit
  •  
Oct. 1, 2019
Opinions
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How literature died for me

Emily Elott
  •  
Sept. 27, 2019
Magazine
(Courtesy of Pxhere).

A ‘coming of age’ for all ages

Shana E. Hadi
  •  
Sept. 23, 2019
Featured
The Daily spoke with Greene about the role of the humanities and SHC at Stanford, as well as his goals as SHC director. (Photo: L.A. CICERO/Stanford News)

Q&A: Incoming Stanford Humanities Center Director, literature professor Roland Greene

Manat Kaur
  •  
Aug. 17, 2019
Arts & Life
Dr. Usha Iyer is not only a professor of film and media studies, but also an avid reader (courtesy of Usha Iyer).

Shelf-Indulgence: What professors are reading (Part 3)

Claire Francis
  •  
June 7, 2019
News
Alfred A. Hart Photographs, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries

Remembering the Chinese railroad workers that built Stanford’s fortune

Elena Shao
  •  
May 23, 2019
The Stanford Daily

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