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Stein Visiting Writer C Pam Zhang shares new work at Faculty Club reading

Kelly Wang
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Yesterday
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Portrait of Charles Baudelaire by Étienne Carjat (c. 1862).

Irony as armor: Yale’s Maurice Samuels explores literary survival in the ‘gray zone’ of tyranny

Angikar Ghosal
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Feb. 18
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Hands with nails painted red hold a human heart inside a rib cage

Dirty Hungry Homosexuals: ‘Paradise Rot’ probes the sensuality of sound

Dayanara Yepez Ramirez
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Feb. 18
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A woman leans against a book with text reading "TEXT AND THE CITY" in the background.

Text and the City: ‘Hotel Iris’ by Yōko Ogawa is where silence becomes its own language

Melisa Ezgi Guleryuz
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Feb. 5
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Photo of a bookshelf

Three books I couldn’t put down in January

Audrey Chang
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Feb. 1
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A hand on a keyboard

‘README’ reveals McCray’s bookish vision for technological change

Daniel Xu
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Jan. 25
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Graphic for Olive Pacal's column.

Intro to Wisdom: Discovering the philosophy of the dorm

Olive Pacal
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Jan. 12
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Stack of books

2025’s best reads in review

Emerson Prentice
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Jan. 11
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A woman leans against a book with text reading "TEXT AND THE CITY" in the background.

Text and the City: In ‘Yellowface,’ who gets to tell the story (and get away with it)? 

Melisa Ezgi Guleryuz
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Jan. 8
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Signs on bookshelves at Kepler's

Kepler’s Books remains hub for literature and activism in the Bay 

Emerson Prentice
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Jan. 4
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Graphic for Olive Pacal's column.

Intro to Wisdom: The ‘farcical epiphany’ and metamodernism in ‘Less’ and ‘The Corrections’

Olive Pacal
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Dec. 1
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Daniel Xu's column, "And So We Thought," reflects on the media ecosystem we live in. (Graphic: MEI KNUTSON/The Stanford Daily)

And So We Thought: In ‘The Long Walk,’ simplicity mutates into suffering

Daniel Xu
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Nov. 21
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A woman leans against a book with text reading "TEXT AND THE CITY" in the background.

Text and the City: ‘Persepolis’ by Marjane Satrapi draws girlhood in ink and defiance

Melisa Ezgi Guleryuz
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Nov. 16
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Daniel Xu's column, "And So We Thought," reflects on the media ecosystem we live in. (Graphic: MEI KNUTSON/The Stanford Daily)

And So We Thought: There is a universe of ideas in ‘Invisible Cities’

Daniel Xu
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Nov. 11
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Graphic for Olive Pacal's column.

Intro to Wisdom: Exploring the philosophical implications of ‘Calvin and Hobbes’

Olive Pacal
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Nov. 5
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A woman leans against a book with text reading "TEXT AND THE CITY" in the background.

Text and the City: Welcome to the doll house

Melisa Ezgi Guleryuz
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Oct. 28
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Daniel Xu's column, "And So We Thought," reflects on the media ecosystem we live in. (Graphic: MEI KNUTSON/The Stanford Daily)

And So We Thought: Oppenheimer and the closing of the American mind

Daniel Xu
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Oct. 27
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Graphic for Olive Pacal's column.

‘A Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy’ illustrates Western philosophy’s biggest ideas 

Olive Pacal
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Oct. 23
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The textbooks we know, we love and we loathe. (Graphic: ANANYA UDAYGIRI/The Stanford Daily)

Listicle: The textbooks Stanford can’t forget

Allie Skalnik, Emerson Prentice, Emmett Chung, Chris Procaccino, Chloe Shannon Wong and Kelly Wang
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Oct. 15
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graphic of physician mending the heart

How ‘Being Mortal’ addresses what modern medicine cannot fix

Ruby Honjol
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Oct. 12
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