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“Where the Crawdads Sing” loses the details but keeps the heart of a tragic story

Aslıhan Alp
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Aug. 16, 2022
Arts & Life
A multi-colored background of orange, pink, and red with five book covers in the foreground.

What to read: AAPI Heritage Month recommendations

Kirsten Mettler, Lily Zhou, Kyla Figueroa, Peyton Lee and Richard Coca
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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
A red curved arrow pointing to "Either Or" against a yellow background

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

Lily Zhou
  •  
May 25, 2022
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
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May 24, 2022
Arts & Life
A landscape photo of Lagos, Nigeria. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Lately in Literature: Family against murder in ‘My Sister, The Serial Killer’

Leyla Yilmaz
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Feb. 27, 2022
Arts & Life
Screenshot of a Zoom room with 2 participants--Peter Mann and interviewer Carly Taylor

Q&A: Stanford history lecturer Peter Mann is an undercover novelist

Carly Taylor
  •  
Feb. 13, 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
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Oct. 7, 2021
Arts & Life
Lauren Clark ‘20 (left) and Emily Layden ‘11 (right) in Zoom

Emily Layden ’11 discusses the importance of the feminine perspective in literature

Jed Ngalande
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April 15, 2021
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
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June 10, 2020
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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
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
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
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May 13, 2020
Arts & Life
In “Spinning Silver,” Nebula-winning and Hugo-nominated author Naomi Novik crafts a story overflowing with dynamic characters, calculated schemes and thrilling fairytale magic. (Photo: Courtesy of Del Rey)

‘Spinning Silver’ gleams with vivid imagination

Shana E. Hadi
  •  
Sept. 25, 2019
Arts & Life
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‘A Land of Permanent Goodbyes’ offers shallow view of Syrian refugee crisis

Yawen Xue
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Aug. 20, 2019
In "Northanger Abbey," Jane Austen combines a touching coming-of-age story with a comic sendup of the Gothic novel (courtesy of Flickr).

Romanticism and its ripples

Claire Francis and Shana E. Hadi
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May 28, 2019
Arts & Life
Alexandra Kleeman is the author of "You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine." She wrote the acclaimed novel in unusual locations, like a Wendy's restaurant (courtesy of Arturo Olmos).

On Alexandra Kleeman’s ‘You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine’

Carly Taylor
  •  
May 1, 2019
Arts & Life
Sherlock Holmes would be shocked if he read "City of Glass." Paul Auster's story deconstructs classic detective fiction (MARK YORK/The Stanford Daily).

In constructing a deconstruction — ‘City of Glass’ as the detective novel’s autopsy

Mark York
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April 4, 2019
Arts & Life
Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" is one of the most bitter love stories ever written (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

Reading between the lines for love

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Lily Nilipour, Carly Taylor, Scott Stevens, Mark York, Claire Francis and Shana E. Hadi
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Feb. 14, 2019
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