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Step into a world where innocence collides with chaos, and a boy’s extraordinary journey unfolds like a mesmerizing tapestry. "Boy Swallows Universe" is a plunge into the magical...
The novel 1984 takes place in Oceania, a large Empire known as a Superstate in the story. Many people believe that this book is relevant today because it has been interpreted and used in modern times....
Growing up, I’ve always seen teachers as robots. They sit down, type away on their computer, scold a student, teach a lesson, and repeat. Then at the end of the day, after school, they would stand behind...
Heart-rendingly descriptive, Celeste Ng’s Our Missing Hearts illustrates a dystopian society that is uncomfortably close to our own. The book is a deeply disturbing and cautionary tale warning readers...
In the past four years or so, Carnegie has forced us to read books for many different classes. I enjoyed the experience of getting to read stories that I normally would not read, while some people I know...
By Sofia Hegstrom, Contributing Writer
• February 22, 2022
Fifty-two years ago, in 1969, Black History Month was observed for the first time at Kent State University in Ohio. A short six years later, in 1976, President Gerald Ford nationally recognized the month-long...
This story discusses sexual violence in a non-graphic manner.
Carmen Maria Machado’s anthology of short stories, Her Body and Other Parties, does its best to pull you in with intriguing plots, premises,...
Crying in H Mart is ineffable. I have never read a book that has made me go from craving Korean food to catharsis-crying in just pages.
Japanese Breakfast indie rockstar Michelle Zauner’s Crying in...
The Y.A author John Green’s new and first nonfiction book The Anthropocene Reviewed was published on May 8, 2021. The book is a collection of personal essays that talk about...
The new movie, All the Bright Places was made to capture the raw emotions and beauty of mental illnesses for young adults, but it glossed over the complexities of mental health problems exhibited...
By Sofia Hegstrom, Contributing Writer
• October 21, 2021
Binx Bolling, the protagonist of Walker Percy’s 1960 novel, is no hero. In fact, at some points, he barely even seems a protagonist. The book is mostly comprised of his internal monologue and observations...
Man is good. Or are we? The perennial debate about the core nature of humanity is still being argued, eons on, because the statement: ‘Man is good’ appears to be just as contractidible as it is defensible....
