Content warning: gun violence, coarse language
In times of political upheaval, I notice a lot of my fellow writers gearing themselves up as though they’re about to step into war. They post...
Netflix — streaming giant, slayer of BlockBuster Video and host platform to such original classics as “Squid Game,” “Love is Blind,” “Stranger Things,” “Love Island,” “You,” “Temptation...
What do the pope of the Catholic Church and a pope of a satanic clergy have in common? Well, gender nonconformity, for one! Before any pitchforks are raised, this is about two entirely fictional representations...
Growing up, classic literature was framed to me as this terrifying and boring behemoth sure to haunt high school English classes and students’ nightmares for years to come — and I suspect that I wasn’t...
Content Warning: Suicide, Suicidal Ideation, Self Harm
At the risk of sounding conceited, let’s harken back to two specific quotes from my previous blog posts.
First, in my review of...
*The following is an edited excerpt of a journal entry written on March 6
Today, I had the opportunity to meet Jim Obergefell and hear him talk on a panel about being the plaintiff of Obergefell...
The Bartimaeus Sequence actually started as a trilogy. Written by Jonathan Stroud, the original trilogy was published from 2003 to 2005, with the books in the following order: “The Amulet of Samarkand,”...
Since the introduction of generative artificial intelligence models, newly-released books can be and have been plagiarized with AI-generated copies within a day of their release. Students are increasingly...
Last year, I wrote a blog post covering my experience in the “Stone Award Book Club,” a 1-credit course focused on unpacking Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “Braiding Sweetgrass” and learning what it means...
My first exposure to Raggedy Ann was the well-known story of Annabelle, a haunted Raggedy Ann doll kept in a locked case in the (now defunct) Warrens' Occult Museum (About 2024). This is not an original...
Editor's Note: The writer has changed their opinion on one of the books reviewed in this blog. Click here to read Tate's updated position on "The Midnight Library".
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I’ve only been living in Corvallis for about four months, but one of my favorite things about switching from infinite suburbia to a small, walkable college town has been the art. Street art has been...
