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Opinions/Volume 97/Volume 97 Issue 8

The Sydor Synopsis: Unaccustomed Earth by Jumpha Lahiri

February 28, 2025February 27, 2025

Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel “Unaccustomed Earth” is not so much about the physical spaces that we inhabit that are foreign to us. Although she takes us all over the world with her characters…

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Opinions/Volume 97 Issue 7

A Baby’s Commentary on Being God:The Character of Rain by Amélie Nothomb  Review

February 14, 2025February 13, 2025

For Amélie Nothomb in “The Character of Rain,” life begins with nothing until we have the ability to claim our identity. Translated from its original and more compelling French title “Métaphysique des…

Volume 97 Issue 1

“Twice Alive” Review: A Cathartic Love Song of Nature and Human Intimacy

September 20, 2024September 20, 2024

“Twice Alive” is an 83 page poetry collection written by Forrest Gander and released in 2021. Considering Gander is a Pulitzer Prize winning poet, it is no surprise that “Twice Alive” wields…

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Volume 96 Issue 11

Book Review: The Writing in this Book is Truly “Powerless”

March 22, 2024August 7, 2024

BookTok’s recommendation, “Powerless” by Lauren Roberts is not worth the read. How could over half of people on Goodreads have rated this book five stars? The only thing that this book has…

Student Life & Arts/Volume 96 Issue 10

Matchmaking Event Sparks Love for Books in Students

March 1, 2024March 1, 2024

The Drew Bookworms’ Book Matchmaking event drew in many book lovers with the lure of free novels and tasty wings. The book club hosted the Valentine’s Day themed event in McClendon Lounge…

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Volume 95 Issue 10

Every Theater Student’s Best Nightmare: M.L. Rio’s “If We Were Villains”

March 1, 2024August 7, 2024

In the realm of literary masterpieces, the psychological thriller “If We Were Villains,” a novel by M.L. Rio, is the most well-crafted story about college theater students I have ever read. It…

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Volume 96 Issue 6

“House of Leaves” Review: Horror, as Beautiful and Convoluted as It Gets

November 17, 2023August 7, 2024

Weighing in at 709 pages, “House of Leaves” is no joke. Mark Danielewski’s massive debut novel, published in March 2000 by Pantheon Books, is barely a novel, and that is precisely why…

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Volume 95 Issue 18

Book Review: “The Code Breaker”

April 14, 2023April 14, 2023

The discovery that CRISPR, a bacterial defense mechanism against viruses, could be used to edit human genes is one of the most significant scientific advancements of the last half-century. This breakthrough in…

Student Life & Arts

A Poetry Collection Perfect for Every Reader, Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

February 10, 2017

by Laura Archer, contributing writer “How is it so easy for you to be kind to people he asked. milk and honey dripped from my lips as I answered. cause people have…

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