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Poet Angeline Truong honors George Floyd with a retrospective look at 9/11. (Photo: Outschool)

Poetry: ‘at a school assembly for 9/11’

Angeline Ai-Nhi Truong
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June 10, 2020
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Carly Taylor delivers a riveting prove into Ruchika Tomar's award-winning debut novel "A Prayer for Travelers." (Photo: Penguin Random House)

Craft and patience in ‘A Prayer for Travelers’

Carly Taylor
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June 3, 2020
Arts & Life
A beach walker seeks refuge from probing eyes. (Illustration: Erin Stoodley)

Fiction: Ventura

Erin Stoodley
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May 29, 2020
Arts & Life
A hiking backpack, cache of personal worries and hopes. (Photo: WhereNext)

Poetry: Ode on an REI Backpack

Rachel D'Agui
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May 29, 2020
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A poem on family knowledge and a father's odyssey across the sea. (Photo: JORGE GUERRERO/AFP)

Poetry: ‘the return’

Angeline Ai-Nhi Truong
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May 27, 2020
Arts & Life
A young woman reflects on loneliness and intimacy. (Illustration: Erin Stoodley)

Fiction: Plan B

Erin Stoodley
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May 25, 2020
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Adania Shibli's new novel revolves around a young woman's quest to understand the capture and rape of a Palestinian teenager in 1949. (Photo: New Directions)

‘Minor Details’ hiding in the desert sands

Jasmine Liu
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May 23, 2020
Arts & Life
Leah Chase reviews Haruki Murakami's novel about a man who decides to get to the bottom of his mysterious expulsion from his college friend group decades prior. (Photo: Yuko Shimizu)

Disappearances unexplained in ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’

Leah Chase
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May 20, 2020
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Patrick Phillips discusses judging for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and shares his wisdom on the study and craft of poetry. (Photo: Marion Ettlinger)

Pulitzers and poetic forms: An interview with Patrick Phillips

Scott Stevens
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May 19, 2020
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Poet and professor Nikky Finney (pictured) joined Allyson Hobbs' Community Hour to talk about poetry as well as the strength needed during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo: Wofford College)

An occasion for poetry with Nikky Finney

Maya Czeneszew and Betty He
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May 18, 2020
Arts & Life
Haruki Murakami's novel alternates between two worlds, one an imaginary walled town, the other an almost imaginary Tokyo, all while exploring the nature of freedom. (Photo: Micah Lidberg)

Haruki Murakami’s involuntary freedom

Owen Shen
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May 18, 2020
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A young boy named Galal sits alone at lunch, fasting, when another boy sits beside him. (Cartoon: Clementine Chou/The Stanford Daily)

Fiction: Galal’s Parlor

Omar Rafik El-Sabrout
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May 15, 2020
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Lily Zhou reviews Meng Jin's debut novel "Little Gods," the story of a brilliant, deceased Chinese physicist told by everyone but herself. (Photo: Debutiful)

‘Little Gods,’ big distances

Lily Zhou
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May 14, 2020
Arts & Life
A review of Netflix’s recently release limited series, “Unorthodox,” examined with a lens of feminist liberation and Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening.” (Photo: Netflix)

Esty and Edna: Uncovering the parallels between Netflix’s ‘Unorthodox’ and Chopin’s ‘The Awakening’

Roberta Gonzalez Marquez
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May 13, 2020
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Omar Rafik El-Sabrout investigates the first novel in Naguib Mahfouz's "The Cairo Trilogy." (Photo: Anchor Publishing)

No longer preserved: A retrospective of Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘Palace Walk’ (غير محفوظ: “بين القصرين”, كتاب نجيب محفوظ)

Omar Rafik El-Sabrout
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May 4, 2020
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Stanford English professor and celebrated poet Eavan Boland (Photo: L.A. CICERO/Stanford News Service)

On the death of a poet

Lisa Liu
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May 1, 2020
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Sanjana Friedman describes how Henry Miller's notoriously raunchy novel "Tropic of Cancer" has lost its effect on modern readers. (Photo: Obelisk Publishing)

Living artistically with ‘Tropic of Cancer’

Carly Taylor
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May 1, 2020
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(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Writing off the Farm

Roberta Gonzalez Marquez
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April 20, 2020
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Georgia Limcaoco explores the differences between genre fiction and literary fiction, and how we pass judgement on what we read for pleasure. (Photo: Ideal Bookshelf)

Judging the books I’ve loved before

Georgia Limcaoco
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March 27, 2020
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Roberta Gonzalez-Marquez reviews Haruki Murakami's newest short story that deals with youth, romance, and suicide (Photo: The Beatles)

Youth, death and Murakami’s Beatles

Roberta Gonzalez Marquez
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March 2, 2020
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