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Mar 7, 20206 min read

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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Jan 21, 20204 min read

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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Nov 5, 20194 min read

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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Apr 29, 20195 min read

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 15, 20195 min read

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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