As the perfect embodiment of the English major who would happily spend hours dissecting a Sally Rooney novel in the corner during a bustling dinner party, it has never occurred to me to question her cult following, of which I could very well be the leader.
New independent cooperative bookstore Heartleaf Books was opened by sisters Caroline and Mads Vericker on Atwells Avenue last Wednesday. Heartleaf is a consumer and worker co-op which aims to involve community members by allowing them to purchase shares in the business and become part owners. ...
From Oscar Wilde’s trial to the discourse surrounding Virginia Woolf’s affair with Vita Sackville-West, conversations about sexuality have been linked to many literary greats. But beyond the sexuality of individual authors, queerness has played a deeper and often less recognized role in shaping ...
On Friday, the Ivy Film Festival hosted a virtual conversation with Ita O’Brien, the intimacy coordinator for “Sex Education,” “Normal People,” “Brave New World” and “I May Destroy You,” among other productions. “An intimacy coordinator is somebody who brings a clear ...
Award-winning, bestselling author John Green addressed the student body last night at the Salomon Center in an event organized by the Brown Lecture Board. As the author of “The Fault in Our Stars,” “Looking for Alaska” and “Turtles All the Way Down,” Green is widely considered ...
The first season of creator Chris Van Dusen and producer Shonda Rhimes’s “Bridgerton” quickly became a sensation after it aired on Netflix in December 2020 — what it lacked in sheer cinematic prowess, it made up for with sex. The appeal was not purely sensational, as a previous Herald review ...
At a Thursday night Brown Concert Agency release party that stretched into Friday, an auditorium full of students waited eagerly in Sayles Hall to hear who would headline the first in-person Spring Weekend in three years. At midnight, BCA unveiled a video announcing its star-studded lineup, with ...
Shakespeare on the Green’s production of “Julius Caesar” ran March 17 to 20 at the Solomon Center. Directed by Emily Mayo ’24, the show revived Shakespeare’s timeless play in the unique setting of a women’s college. Mayo had the vision for this production since she played ...
Ninety-five years after Virginia Woolf published her thoughts on the lack of representation of relationships between women in literature, these concerns still ring true to an alarming degree across modern media.
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