The summer before senior year at Berkeley, Hua Hsu’s friend Ken is killed in a carjacking. The tragedy happens hours after Ken’s housewarming party, a…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 23
“called forward.” These words mark Ocean Vuong’s opening acknowledgements of his poetrycollection Time is a Mother, dedicated to Vuong’s partner, Peter, and Vuong’s late mother,…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 16
Tawanda Mulalu’s Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die begins at a bathroom mirror, where the poet stands combing coiled knots out of…
Review: The Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Between the 1 and the 0: Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St.John Mandel Emily St. John Mandel takes the reader on a poignant…
Sunday Staff Picks: October 7th
The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang The first thing you will notice about The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang is the shape of…