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Hands with nails painted red hold a human heart inside a rib cage

Dirty Hungry Homosexuals: ‘The Moth Diaries’ merges obsessive queerness with mental illness

Dayanara Yepez Ramirez
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April 28
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Hands with nails painted red hold a human heart inside a rib cage

Dirty Hungry Homosexuals: ‘The Starving Saints’ starves readers of a satisfying ending

Dayanara Yepez Ramirez
  •  
March 11
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A woman leans against a book with text reading "TEXT AND THE CITY" in the background.

Text and the City: Welcome to the doll house

Melisa Ezgi Guleryuz
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Oct. 28
Culture
Students enjoy the sunset at Lake Lagunita. (Photo: AVNI VATS/The Stanford Daily)

What does mental health mean to The Daily?

Allie Skalnik, Chloe Shannon Wong, Madisyn Cunningham, Grace Zhao and Blyss Cleveland
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May 22
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Discover your next great read this spring! (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Listicle: What’s Stanford reading?

Allie Skalnik, Ellaheh Gohari, Blyss Cleveland, Hana Dao, Kelly Wang, Miriam Awan, Melisa Ezgi Guleryuz and Cate Burtner
  •  
May 7
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cut outs from newspapers form a human silhouette behind the title of the column "Brutal Monsters"

‘Alone With You in the Ether’ is a fantasy of unrealism

Cate Burtner
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April 2, 2025
Culture
Gabriella Montez in High School Musical 3.

Stanford in the Media: ‘To All the Boys: Always and Forever’ depicts realistic college admissions

Emma Muller
  •  
March 13, 2025
Events
Novelist, storyteller and member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma Tommy Orange spoke at the Stanford Faculty Club on the pretenders in American history. (Photo: CAYDEN GU/The Stanford Daily)

Tommy Orange presents on writing and pretending

Cate Burtner
  •  
Feb. 3, 2025
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A shelf of kids books with the covers facing out on display.

Little Libraries transforms clinic waiting rooms into book nooks

Kayla Chan
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Jan. 15, 2025
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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
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cut outs from newspapers form a human silhouette behind the title of the column "Brutal Monsters"

Obsession is not desire: ‘My Husband’ progresses beyond tropes of mental illness

Cate Burtner
  •  
Jan. 13, 2025
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Heart-shaped pages of a book

‘Daughter of Ruins’ portrays women’s perseverance through an ode to its author’s Grecian home

Leyla Yilmaz
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Jan. 12, 2025
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The Leland Quarterly "LQ" logo is in big read letters against a white background. There is a Stanford tree in the Q.

Literary magazine Leland Quarterly opens doors to creative expression and student publication

Katie Small
  •  
Dec. 6, 2024
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An animated book lies open with passages of text covered up by black blocks to represent book banning.

Behind the nationwide rise of book bans

Sanaya Robinson-Shah
  •  
Dec. 4, 2024
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Animated colored shapes of people sit in a circle reading books.

9 book clubs for all those looking for a reading community

Zara Fite
  •  
Nov. 13, 2024
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cut outs from newspapers form a human silhouette behind the title of the column "Brutal Monsters"

‘Sad girl poetry’ and the gendered political madness of 2024

Cate Burtner
  •  
Nov. 12, 2024
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cut outs from newspapers form a human silhouette behind the title of the column "Brutal Monsters"

The viral book ‘A Little Life’ handles little with care

Cate Burtner
  •  
Oct. 28, 2024
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Center for the Study of the Novel director Héctor Hoyos (left) and Peter Boxall (right) pose after the talk.

Peter Boxall ponders the possibilities of literature

Ellen Yang
  •  
Oct. 15, 2024
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"Lately in Literature with Leyla Yilmaz" text against a background of books.

Lately in Literature: Ronan Hession’s ‘Panenka’ is a Week 5 pick-me-up novella

Leyla Yilmaz
  •  
May 1, 2023
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Lulu Miller sits on the left, behind Prof. Caroline Winterer on the right.

Three Books author Lulu Miller lectures on purpose, disability and biodiversity

Grace Lee
  •  
Oct. 19, 2022
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