I have always struggled with the notion that people of color, for some odd reason, cannot seem to exist in the literary worlds of fantasy and adventure. As a huge fan of the Fantasy/Adventure/Sci-Fi...
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Three years ago, in the bedroom of Stephanie Knipe, the puzzle pieces of Adult Mom started fitting together. Knipe, a New York native who identifies as genderqueer, began using music...
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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian classic, a fireman’s job is to find the houses where books were illegally hidden. He then burns both the books and their not-so safe havens...
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I spent the second half of June all’estero, abroad in Rome, Florence, and Venice. It was both familiar (from episodes of Rick Steves’ Europe and coffee-table art books) and unknown (estero means...
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Imagine a six-piece band hailing from Montclair, New Jersey, a quaint town of less than 40,000 residents. Four vocalists, three guitars, a bass, some drums, and the keys. This band has revitalized what precisely it means to be an indie band...
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If you have ever been afraid of becoming your parents, only to find out that you are more similar to them than you would like to admit, Sarah Satterlee's “Traveler” will strike a chord with you...
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After a long and strenuous summer, I decided to treat myself to a little book haul, picking up three recent titles that’d I’d been eyeing for a while. For this week’s article, I would like to discuss...
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"The space between the house and the barn, between his two respective lives, is lined with oaks and acorns."
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At the beginning of Part Three, the prison releases Alex after he successfully demonstrates the effects of Ludovico’s Technique. To those who experimented on him, Alex is the image of a bad-to-good...
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Having spent some time traveling across Europe and developing my taste for its rich artistic history, as well as finding my footing in the modern examples often blended in with days of past, I am always on the lookout for new and unusual hidden gems across Europe.
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To me, the most striking aspect of Natalie Wee's "In The Unlikely Event of the Apocalypse" is the nuanced manner in which the end of the world is depicted as both unfathomable and yet achingly familiar...
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"He'd already gone down the black hole; by graduating into the world, he'd graduated away from himself."
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When I was in 8th grade I entered my first poetry slam competition. Clearly, I thought I had a lot to say at fourteen. At the time, my idea of spoken word poetry seemed to be...
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When we left Alex in Part One, he was being arrested. His situation is decidedly different from when we first met Alex in the first part of the novel, but Part Two begins with the same question...
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Lorde is quickening her climb up the ladder of pop stardom with her latest release, Melodrama – a collage of young adulthood and summertime beats...
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Like any other 20-year-old bibliophile who was miserable staying at home over the summer for the second year in a row, I decided to escape the futility of my living situation by reading a new book...
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Written in 1963, Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange follows a young violent teen who undergoes forced reform from delinquency. This dystopian classic encompasses all of the beauties of...
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Even though our trip had not gone as planned and we should rightfully have been with our host families at that time, we were determined to make the most of our day in Paris...
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"The cranes and peonies begin to move in his plane of vision. To clash into each other, along the box’s red Washington apple skin.
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Originally, I intended to do a book review of Eleanor and Park, but with the recent news involving the case of Philando Castile, and recent murder of Charleena Lyles, I felt compelled to write...
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