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Rue Huang

Jun 12, 20234 min

Crow's Feet & Rays of the Sun

i. smile wrinkles | 笑纹 They curl outwards, stretching themselves to bask in the sun: soft grooves twined upon aged skin. They remind me...

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Nickolas Vaccaro

May 21, 20235 min

Literature

Winter of My Days, a Poetical Essay

What is that? Above me, what is that? Inside me, what is that? What is that I see and touch, what is it I have known and found and...

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Cailey Tin

May 9, 20235 min

Literature

Book Review: DEVILISH Meets Psychopathic, Soul-Sucking Transfer Students and Immortal Boyfriends

Notable for her witty writing, Maureen Johnson is best known for her upper middle school books such as Suite Scarlett and Truly Devious....

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The Word, the Poem, the Image, and the Human Gaze

Nickolas Vaccaro

Apr 23, 20235 min

Literature

The Word, the Poem, the Image, and the Human Gaze

Caption: The Virgin Annunciate, Antonello da Messina, c. 1476. The Virgin is, here, come to the knowledge of her conception of Christ...

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Nickolas Vaccaro

Mar 18, 20234 min

Literature

The Nation, National Identity, and the Transcendence of Language

The question of national identity, and the questions of national sovereignty and territorial integrity which arise from the question of...

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Nickolas Vaccaro

Mar 4, 20234 min

Literature

The Improbable Truth of MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

Mr Smith Goes to Washington centers on the efforts of an individual senator against a legislature nearly totally corrupted by a political...

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The Creation of Worlds: On the Danger of Language and the Hope of Poetry

Nickolas Vaccaro

Feb 18, 20234 min

Literature

The Creation of Worlds: On the Danger of Language and the Hope of Poetry

1 Caption: Tietê bus terminal, São Paulo, Brazil, 1996, Sebastião Salgado To me this photograph embodies the relation of language and...

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Nickolas Vaccaro

Feb 11, 20233 min

Literature

Poetic Impression: The Failure of Language and the Triumph of Poetry

1 Language, as the existence of poetry signifies, inherently and inexorably fails. Produced by an individual who is by definition...

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Nickolas Vaccaro

Feb 4, 20232 min

Literature

PARADISE LOST: Tradition and Subversion

Milton’s Paradise Lost is at once conventional and subversive of convention: The epic draws from the tradition of heroic poetry, the...

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Nickolas Vaccaro

Jan 28, 20232 min

Literature

Houllebecq's SUBMISSION

It is a great power of literature to reflect contemporary society and politics. Through literature, as through art, the writer records...

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Nickolas Vaccaro

Dec 7, 20222 min

Literature

On LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK

How do we reconcile art and government? Should art — produced by the artist who is necessarily a subject of a government, history and age...

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Nickolas Vaccaro

Nov 3, 20222 min

Literature

Autobiography as Literature

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, given to the French novelist Annie Ernaux, celebrates autobiography, writing that does not transport...

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Nickolas Vaccaro

Oct 11, 20222 min

Literature

Art and Community: Publishing as a Young Writer

The purpose of art is as ambiguous as it is important to attempt to answer — art’s place in society and history, its interaction with the...

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Paris LeClaire

Mar 10, 20215 min

Literature

Why We Have to Keep Reading: The Importance of Youth & Literature

The youth's disillusionment with reading is, in most respects, a universal and relentless state of mind. We begin in a puddle of words...

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Paris LeClaire

Feb 2, 20213 min

Literature

Productive Writing Activities When You Just Don't Feel Like Drafting

Writer's block, however troubling it may be, shouldn't have to stunt your writing progress. There are plenty of other ways to get ideas...

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