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Dendrology and deontology: A review of Michael Christie’s Greenwood
Michael Christie’s Greenwood is an ecocritical tour de force that challenges us to reconceptualize our notions of kinship and belonging while fostering a deeper empathy for fellow humans and the natural environment.

Ramiya Sureshkumar October 15, 2024October 15, 2024

Michael Christie’s Greenwood is a multifocal, multitemporal masterpiece brimming with complex characters and their intricate relationships with a resilient yet…

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“Smell of jasmine, pool of blue jacaranda”: A personification of Los Angeles

Lina Tupak-Karim February 26, 2024February 26, 2024

I’ve never been to Los Angeles. Everything I think I know about L.A. stems from music about its warm romance…

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The queer narrative in Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Valeria Ramirez Osorio November 27, 2023November 26, 2023

I remember the first time I read Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe a few years ago….

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Suffering with purpose: good and bad values

Jaros Valdes November 20, 2023December 10, 2023

Have you ever read a book from start to finish more than once? If so, what made you want to…

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The Little Prince: A timeless classic

Debbie Wong November 6, 2023November 6, 2023

The last time I read The Little Prince, I was nine years old. A couple days ago, I found a…

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Self-exploration in the long-awaited Piranesi

Zainab Hassan October 23, 2023November 28, 2023

As an avid lover of all things fantasy, I absolutely had to read Piranesi, English author Susanna Clarke’s award-winning book….

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There There by Tommy Orange: Fiction that feels real

Sierra Peca October 3, 2023October 11, 2023

“Stray bullets and consequences are landing on our unsuspecting bodies even now,” writes Tommy Orange in the epigraph following the…

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White noise is doomscrolling

Elizabeth Prydatka September 18, 2023September 18, 2023

In the later half of 2022, I watched Noah Baumbach’s most recent directorial film on Netflix, White Noise, an adaptation…

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How Tender is the Flesh inexplicitly analyzes the cruelty of femicide

Shahed Ebesh March 6, 2023March 6, 2023

Trigger warning: This article mentions murder, cannibalism, and violent imagery. Imagine a world where murder is state-sanctioned. Is it still…

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation—the white woman’s American Psycho?

Lina Tupak-Karim February 6, 2023February 6, 2023

Trigger Warning: This article mentions sexual assault, suicide, and self-harm. For years, I used sleep as a means of avoiding…

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What we can learn from Black authors

Tiana Dunkley January 30, 2023May 23, 2023

I am not an avid reader. For a long time, graphic novels with fantastical illustrations were the only stories I…

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Books that changed my life in 2022

Maja Tingchaleun January 9, 2023June 1, 2023

Throughout 2022, I found myself amazed by the connections I was able to make between the books I read, the…

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How the “female gaze” presents itself in queer literature

Mashiyat Ahmed November 28, 2022November 28, 2022

Classic literature persists through individuals who revive old works in modern ways. In her novel The Song of Achilles, author…

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Our troubling climate represented in The Parable of the Sower

Tiana Dunkley November 14, 2022June 1, 2023

Published in 1993, Octavia Butler’s novel The Parable of the Sower tells the story of Lauren Oya Olamina, a 15-year-old…

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Exhilarating horror in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Cristina Pincente October 31, 2022October 31, 2022

Why do we enjoy reading horror novels? In his essay, “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” Stephen King poses a similar…

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