“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The line is infamous in English literature as Charles Dickens’ 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, to frame the motif of duality throughout the seven monthly installments of the novel to-be.
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Human genetics remains a largely unexplored frontier in which our dabbling becomes an ethical debate of playing God. Before CRISPR gene editing technology was mainstream, the 1993 sci-fi novel Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress is set between 2008 to the 2030s and offers social and ethical commentary on present-day genetic engineering.
Since 1964, the Torch Bearers, an iconic sculpture located in front of the S.C. Williams Library, has served as a pedagogical symbol with painstakingly accurate equine anatomy.
What does it mean to have a home, an address, or a hearth? While witnessing displacement and the desperate seek for refuge abroad, should we reflect on domestic insecurity?
The average menstruating person spends about $20 on period products per cycle, totaling about $18,000 over their lifetime. Period poverty is a term used to describe when people cannot afford the menstrual products they need for their cycle in which insecurity is structurally rooted within systems of inequity and oppression.
It’s a sweltering summer day in England, 1935, and the teetering Tallis family drape themselves across their upper-class country house. Like dolls being perfectly positioned throughout the home, we meet the Tallis children—Leon, Celia, and Briony—from oldest to youngest as they linger between a misspent summer and a scandal that will alter their lives and scatter their bonds forever.
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami is prolific in the art of intimate narration and a cast of dreamy, almost off-beat characters on the cusp of adulthood.
Bias is infused into the modern currency that drives daily and institutional structures: technology. As we pass off machine learning and AI as objective systems, the developers behind everything from phone apps to complex predictive algorithms carry biases that exist within our society.
Amparo Dávila’s The Houseguest, published in 2018, provides a beginner’s handbook to feminist existential literature through short stories that embrace the uncanny and unseen.
Often overshadowed by J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, the equally provocative but more developed counterpart novel Franny and Zooey was published in 1961, about 10 years after Catcher.