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Photo: Paramount Pictures

What to watch: The baroque brilliance of ‘Face/Off’

Mark Huerta
  •  
Oct. 11, 2020
Screen
Courtesy of the Sundance Institute

Should we be wary of AI? ‘Coded Bias’ says yes.

Kirsten Mettler
  •  
Oct. 6, 2020
Arts & Life
A still from “No Hard Feelings.” (Courtesy of M-Appeal)

Frameline 44, part 1: A festival at your fingertips

Olivia Popp
  •  
Sept. 22, 2020
Video Games
Five agents stand against a vivid red background. The word "Valorant" is plastered across them.

The best part about ‘Valorant’? Its potential.

Michael Espinosa
  •  
Sept. 1, 2020
Television
Umbrella Academy promotion (Photo: Netflix).

‘The Umbrella Academy’: second season gives a compelling portrayal of 1960s America

Prithi Srinivasan
  •  
Aug. 13, 2020
Arts & Life
Photo of the Brooklyn Nine-Nine cast posing with serious yet expressive face.

‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’: A progressive show?

Gil Abend-David
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July 11, 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
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
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
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
  •  
May 18, 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
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
Sanjana Friedman describes how Henry Miller's notoriously raunchy novel "Tropic of Cancer" has lost its effect on modern readers. (Photo: Obelisk Publishing)

Living artistically with ‘Tropic of Cancer’

Carly Taylor
  •  
May 1, 2020
Arts & Life
The actors took to the stage from the audience to emphasize that anybody could be Everybody. (Photo courtesy of Stephen Hitchcock)

Everybody can be everybody, but only in the cast of ‘Everybody’

Khuyen Le
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March 16, 2020
Arts & Life
Pioneering aviator Jerrie Cobb (Sarah Mitchell) undergoes a tough flight with Jack (Craig Marker) on radio in "They Promised Her the Moon," which was presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto. (Photo: Kevin Berne)

Women lift women in ‘They Promised Her the Moon’

Anupriya Dwivedi
  •  
March 15, 2020
University
Over 100 students, faculty and community members attended the Associated Students of Stanford University’s (ASSU) town hall on sexual violence on Dec. 4, packing the lecture hall in Building 200 where it was held. (Photo: CHRISTOPHER DEMBIA/The Stanford Daily)

University responds to over 90 student-submitted questions on sexual violence

Kate Selig
  •  
Feb. 10, 2020
Reads
Yukiko Motoya's "The Lonesome Bodybuilder" paints domestic life with a magical realist coat, exploring the lives of characters isolated from society or caught in the classic battle between the sexes. (Photo: Maudlin House)

The lonesome storybuilder

Scott Stevens
  •  
Feb. 4, 2020
Arts & Life
‘The White Door’ is the latest game created by the developers behind Rusty Lake, and the first by publisher Second Maze. (Courtesy of Rusty Lake)

Entering ‘The White Door,’ the latest from Rusty Lake developers

Dax Duong
  •  
Jan. 14, 2020
Arts & Life
"Anastasia" may not always stick the landing, but it remains a visually stunning and thoroughly enjoyable musical. Photo: Evan Zimmerman, courtesy of Broadway Grand Rapids

The ‘Anastasia’ Tour features soaring music, but some performances flutter

Chloe Wintersteen
  •  
Jan. 5, 2020
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