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A resistance of form: Zadie Smith’s “Dead and Alive”

By Nick Penniman | November 13, 2025

“But perhaps I am asking the question the wrong way around,” Zadie Smith writes at one point in her essay “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction,” which can be found in her new collection, “Dead and Alive.” It’s a typically Smithian line: an expression of self-doubt signalling the ...

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Be not afeard, the room is full of teeth (and flute)

By Anthony Cinquina | November 13, 2025

Full of noise it was, when on the night of Nov. 5 in Robison Hall, the avante-garde acapella octet Roomful of Teeth and composer, poet and flutist Allison Loggins-Hull joined forces to produce 75 minutes of utterly remarkable and deeply moving experimental soundscapes. I have heard nothing like it — ...

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Our new old friends: Public art collections on campus

By Yoyo Zhang | October 30, 2025

Since our first day in freshman year, we familiarized ourselves with the campus layout — navigating to classes, planning out the fastest routes and utilizing bikes and skateboards to help us hurry between buildings. As we trace our familiar routes to class each week, we might notice some hidden artworks ...

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It's okay to cry: Processing grief through music

By Liam French | October 30, 2025

It's the seasonal act: Leaves detach from trees with a last flaming breath, dry wind chills your throat and chest and the sun sets quickly towards the heavens, leaving us aching for more of its intangible warmth. There is an emptiness in fall, yet its warmth is immortalized in the digital world. We ...

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