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Over a faint backdrop of open books, the text: "lately in LITERATURE with Leyla Yilmaz." "Literature" is stylized in multiple fonts over red, green, and pink rectangles, as in a collage made from magazines.

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

Leyla Yilmaz
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Oct. 11, 2022
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Blue book cover with text: "The Art of Teaching Children, Philip Done". The book is surrounded by stationery: pencils, stickers, scrabble tiles, and a folder.

How a Bay Area local taught me “The Art of Teaching”

Andy Huynh
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Aug. 16, 2022
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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
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May 29, 2022
Arts & Life
Green and pink book with glasses sitting on top; blue background

“Fiona and Jane” is a story of personal growth, rather than friendship

Lily Zhou
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Feb. 8, 2022
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The cover of this volume of the Stanford Anthology for Youth depicts a young woman standing in front of a stop sign.

Hearing what young writers have to SAY: Stanford’s Anthology for Youth releases 24th publication

Natalie Wang
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Aug. 18, 2021
Arts & Life
cover image of "Begin by Telling," with the words "also explain / then show her why / send her out to buy" beneath the title

Meg Remy’s ‘Begin by Telling’ crafts a landscape of trauma and storytelling

Lily Nilipour
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April 19, 2021
a black and white image of Bernardine Evaristo, author of "Girl, Woman, Other," looking pensive

Books for Women’s History Month

Jared Klegar, Lana Tleimat, Lily Nilipour, Kyla Figueroa and Kirsten Mettler
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March 16, 2021
Arts & Life
Depiction of Octavia Butler's story 'Bloodchild' showing an unidentifiable insect with many legs emerging from a boy with a large whole through his chest

Spooky reads for Halloween in quarantine

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Lily Nilipour, Ellie Wong, Valerie Trapp, Emma Kexin Wang, Shana E. Hadi, Cindy Xin and Carly Taylor
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Oct. 29, 2020
Arts & Life
(Photo: Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Between the World and Me, Stamped from the Beginning)

7 books that will help educate you as an ally for the Black community

Justine Ha
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Aug. 1, 2020
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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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Poet Angeline Truong honors George Floyd with a retrospective look at 9/11. (Photo: Outschool)

Poetry: ‘at a school assembly for 9/11’

Angeline Ai-Nhi Truong
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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
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June 3, 2020
Arts & Life
A beach walker seeks refuge from probing eyes. (Illustration: Erin Stoodley)

Fiction: Ventura

Erin Stoodley
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May 29, 2020
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A poem on family knowledge and a father's odyssey across the sea. (Photo: JORGE GUERRERO/AFP)

Poetry: ‘the return’

Angeline Ai-Nhi Truong
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May 27, 2020
Arts & Life
A young woman reflects on loneliness and intimacy. (Illustration: Erin Stoodley)

Fiction: Plan B

Erin Stoodley
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May 25, 2020
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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
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May 23, 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
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May 20, 2020
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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
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May 19, 2020
Arts & Life
Haruki Murakami's novel alternates between two worlds, one an imaginary walled town, the other an almost imaginary Tokyo, all while exploring the nature of freedom. (Photo: Micah Lidberg)

Haruki Murakami’s involuntary freedom

Owen Shen
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May 18, 2020
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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
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May 15, 2020
The Stanford Daily

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