“Smell of jasmine, pool of blue jacaranda”: A personification of Los Angeles
I’ve never been to Los Angeles. Everything I think I know about L.A. stems from music about its warm romance…
I’ve never been to Los Angeles. Everything I think I know about L.A. stems from music about its warm romance…
I remember the first time I read Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe a few years ago….
Have you ever read a book from start to finish more than once? If so, what made you want to…
The last time I read The Little Prince, I was nine years old. A couple days ago, I found a…
As an avid lover of all things fantasy, I absolutely had to read Piranesi, English author Susanna Clarke’s award-winning book….
“Stray bullets and consequences are landing on our unsuspecting bodies even now,” writes Tommy Orange in the epigraph following the…
In the later half of 2022, I watched Noah Baumbach’s most recent directorial film on Netflix, White Noise, an adaptation…
Trigger warning: This article mentions murder, cannibalism, and violent imagery. Imagine a world where murder is state-sanctioned. Is it still…
Trigger Warning: This article mentions sexual assault, suicide, and self-harm. For years, I used sleep as a means of avoiding…
I am not an avid reader. For a long time, graphic novels with fantastical illustrations were the only stories I…
Throughout 2022, I found myself amazed by the connections I was able to make between the books I read, the…
Classic literature persists through individuals who revive old works in modern ways. In her novel The Song of Achilles, author…
Published in 1993, Octavia Butler’s novel The Parable of the Sower tells the story of Lauren Oya Olamina, a 15-year-old…
Why do we enjoy reading horror novels? In his essay, “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” Stephen King poses a similar…
TW: Eating disorders, OCD, depression, sexual harassment. Everyone, at some point, craves fame. We crave red carpets, magazine shoots, and…