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“I believe in a nonviolent transformation”: An Interview with Saree Makdisi
Saree Makdisi’s 6th book, Tolerance is a Wasteland, addresses the current political problems in the Middle East as Israelis and...
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Apr 22, 202314 min read
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“Imagine yourself as someone who’s valuable for more than your pain”: An interview with Larissa Pham
“I had come here, after all. I’d seen and talked and found my way without anyone to witness me or love me or hold my hand, and emerged...
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Oct 20, 202216 min read
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“The immigrant story has its own charm”: An Interview with Boris Dralyuk
The sun has set. She must not miss her cue to bid Los Angeles her last adieu. - Boris Dralyuk, My Hollywood For Boris Dralyuk, the...
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May 26, 202211 min read
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Ars Poetica as the Maker: The Metapoetics of Ocean Vuong’s Time Is a Mother
Photo by Tom Hines By Subin Lee “Lest we forget, a morgue is also a community center. In my language… the word for love is Yêu. And the...
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May 20, 20225 min read
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“What you are aching to tell”: An Interview with Xuan Juliana Wang
Illustration by Kendall Moore, photo by Ashleigh Shea “Instead of adding forms where nothing existed, I would recollect the fragments I’d...
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May 14, 202212 min read
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Sad Girl Blues
By Avery Poznanski Pasadena native Phoebe Bridgers rose to indie stardom with her 2017 debut album Stranger in the Alps. Her style is...
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May 2, 20226 min read
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A “Language for Loss and Grief”: An Interview with Ayesha Raees
Illustration by Kendall Moore The body is a temple but only of a woman for a man who knows no prayer. My mother grew up in a foliage...
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May 2, 202215 min read
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Beyond the Best Seller: The Brilliance of Elena Ferrante
By Icaro Carvalho & Raquel Zandomeneghi Achieving a high literary standard while maintaining an accessible and readable text is...
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Feb 22, 20215 min read
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Beckett’s Absurdist Plays are a Tragic Comfort for the Twenty-First Century Person
I recently saw Samuel Beckett’s very short play Quad (also called Quad i + ii) at the Hammer Museum.
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Mar 7, 20206 min read
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I Seek The Truth: The Many Inconsistencies in Frozen 2’s Soundtrack
By Spencer Beck As a long-time fan of Disney, I could not have been more ready for the Frozen sequel to completely rock me to my core....
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Feb 23, 20206 min read
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An Ode to the Ostentatious
By Brett Nava When I was in high school, my AP English teacher had us read “Why and How to Avoid the Passive Voice” by Stephen King. The...
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Jan 21, 20204 min read
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Bad Feminist or Bad Writing?: Misunderstood Female Characters
By Monika Petrosyan As any standard English literature class goes, every book I have read has been followed up with a discussion in an...
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Jan 14, 20205 min read
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If Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman Were a Coming-of-Age Story
By Vivien Adamian I bought Hangsaman on a whim, since I had a curiosity towards Shirley Jackson’s work and had never really read any...
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Nov 5, 20194 min read
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: No or Great Expectations?
By Peyton Austin Twelve minutes into the Academy Award-winning film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the main protagonist, Miles...
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Nov 4, 20194 min read
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How Watching A Hallmark Movie Made Me Realize Why Enemies to Friends to Lovers is Such a Good Trope
By Peyton Austin “Hallmark movie” has become synonymous with “bad, cheesy romance movie”— and rightfully so — but the general consensus...
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Jun 2, 20194 min read
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How to Handle the Dreaded Reading Slump
By Gianna Provenzano A reading slump is the inability to read no matter how much you want to. As someone who has experienced the dreaded...
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May 21, 20192 min read
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An Interpersonal Interweb: Perspectives Through Animation
By Moe Miller As someone that has been using computers from the age of chunky off-white Mackintoshes to compact iPhones, it goes without...
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Apr 30, 20195 min read
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Björk: Layers of Meaning
By Jaime Garcia Sandoval Most people react with confusion when first encountering Björk. The iconoclast is known to many for her...
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Apr 16, 20195 min read
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