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Study of a Figure Outdoors: Woman with a Parasol (Facing Left)/Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Sexuality and stanzaic construction in ‘Warming Her Pearls’ and ‘Martha Pt. 2’

Claire Francis
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Dec. 9, 2017
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Rupi Kaur’s literature: Is it poetry?

Sun Paik
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Dec. 9, 2017
Leo Tolstoy in 1897. (F. W. Taylor/U.S. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS)

Revaluing the ‘Death of Ivan Ilyich’

Shana E. Hadi
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Nov. 28, 2017
Ritidian Beach - Guam National Wildlife Refuge. (Laura Beuregard/U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE)

Six books you’ve read before, but not like this

Claire Francis
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Nov. 27, 2017
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Between desire and liberation

Maddie Kim
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Nov. 26, 2017
Author Ottessa Moshfegh at the 2015 Texas Book Festival. (Courtesy of Larry D. Moore)

Failures in Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘Eileen’

Anna-Sofia Lesiv
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Nov. 15, 2017
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The moving nature of Twitter literature

Maddie Kim
  •  
Nov. 12, 2017
Sarah Mlynowski's "Gimme a Call." (Courtesy of Barnes & Noble)

Gimme a call (or don’t): Relatable narratives in young adult literature

Claire Francis
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Nov. 7, 2017
The final segment of Lemony Snicket's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events.' (Courtesy of Flickr)

Remembering childhood books

Arts & Life Reads beat writers
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Nov. 7, 2017
Author Ted Chiang. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

The humanity of Ted Chiang’s ‘Exhalation’

Shana E. Hadi
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Nov. 6, 2017
American-English poet and playwright, T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965). (GEORGE DOUGLAS/Getty Images)

Finding the third voice in T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’

Didi Chang-Park
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Oct. 19, 2017
American poet Dorothea Lasky (Courtesy of the Los Angeles Review of Books).

‘Rome’ hints at the realms of human monstrosity

Sun Paik
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Oct. 18, 2017
Andy Weir speaks about his writing (Courtesy of Variety).

Cracking open Andy Weir’s ‘The Egg’

Shana E. Hadi
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Oct. 17, 2017
The Grind
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Eight unusual books to read before Halloween

Claire Francis
  •  
Oct. 12, 2017
The Stanford Daily

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