I'll Be Right There: Book Review
A touching coming-of-age romance about college students living through South Korea's protests for democracy in the 1980s.
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Shakespeare Day
In any relationship, it is good to know that “love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.” The author of this quote is none...
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5 Black Female Writers You Should Know
Throughout my time as an English Major I've had the oppertunity to read diverse literature that the public school system often ignores...
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Two Disciplines of Science That Feed from Each Other
We are amazing creatures, we are such complex beings that we formed disciplines in order to understand ourselves, to study profoundly how...
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5 Black Female Artists Whose Activism Influenced their Art
Important Icons to Recognize and Celebrate
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Can I Interest You in this Old-Fashioned Personality Quiz?
Check out the Proust Questionnaire, a widely adopted and varied list of questions to really get to know someone.
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Bookish Wednesday: The Golden Key
Haunting, mesmerizing, join Helena in the search for the truth... even if it's all too unbelievable.
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7 Black Women Writers You Should Read
And not just during Black History Month.
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The Internet Said The Perks of Being a Wallflower is Overrated - It’s Not.
Dear Friend, In the modern day, it seems that, in general, the internet rules the consensus regarding the legacy of a person, event, or piece of media, and that consensus can often take a very negative turn. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a 1999 novel by Stephen Chbosky that gained wider acclaim following its 2012 film adaptation. It’s a coming of age story: a tale as old as time with so many different iterations, most failing at actually contributing anything new to the conversation - Chbosky did not fail this task. . .
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How to Read More From Someone Who Read 95 Books Last Year
I don’t even want to talk about how close I got to 100 books.
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Black Authors Who Have Changed the YA Landscape
Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give The Hate U Give was Angie Thomas’s debut novel and is quite likely the most popular and well-known book on...
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A Love Letter to the English Department
I took my first English class in the winter of my freshman year––it ran from 8:00 AM to 10:05 AM every Tuesday and Thursday. I was up...
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How we can all Learn from the Chaos of Female Literary Characters
There is nothing that truly equates to the paradox of the female literary character. Their complexity, emotional intelligence, and humanity...
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Otsuichi’s ‘Goth’: A Book Review
Flicking through the stories of this book, my eyes dried and mind reeling, I was left speechless once I closed it shut for the final time...
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How to Get Into Reading Classics
Little Women is just as good a book as it is a movie, as are a bunch of other classics.
Middle-School Me Is Disappointed: The Scoop on the Hunger Games Prequel
The recently announced Hunger Games prequel will take a dark and “Snowy” turn.
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The Oxford Comma: One Controversial Squiggly Line
In the words of “Hamlet”: ‘To use, or not to use?’
'My Life in Books': novels that mean something to us
I recently found myself listening to the podcast ‘ My Life in Books ’ and wondering, if I were someone one of Britain’s favourite authors...
Editing Academic Papers: Tips and Tricks
Writing involves several steps and different people struggle with different steps. Personally, I find the first draft to be the hardest...
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Directed Studies' Take on Hook-up Culture
Sextus on sex, Seneca on snapchat, and Petrach on punishment
