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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My virtual Amazon shopping cart is, at any one time, full of roughly six to ten books. These books are ones I plan on ordering and reading, books I’ve been recommended, books...
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Paris seemed so close, yet so far. We had passed through the boarding gate, and were sitting in the airplane waiting for the plane to take off. One girl had brought French vocabulary flashcards and...
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In March of 2016, Connecticut-based band The World is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die released a new EP, titled Long Live Happy Birthday, that marked the beginning...
Growing up as a queer Black boy can be lonely. I always knew I was different. I don’t know when I realized this fact, though it was probably somewhere between pretending...
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Hello, fellow English nerds! If you are like me and love how the many elements of literature come together, then you will thoroughly enjoy this series on dystopian literature. Entrenched...
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This week's playlist is based off of Ocean Vuong's book of poetry called "Night Sky With Exit Wounds." Vuong, a master of language and imagery, describes the indescribable...
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"You take artifacts from each place you visit."
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In the summer of 2016, after having taken three years of French, I decided to participate in an exchange program to France itself. I had enough familiarity with the French language that I knew...
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"I am still . . . predisposed to prefer Belle to Cinderella, Katharine Hepburn to Grace Kelly."
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"It was always somewhat for myself, before I was me . . . . Always somewhat to please that cross-armed child in red."
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