Two weeks ago, I finished the 10th re-read of my favorite book, too busy with school to pick up a new one. Rather than use my energy to start another one, I picked up my phone, scrolled through Instagram,...

CVHS students will do anything to put off the required reading. I should know — I spent four years of putting off assigned textbook passages until the nights before they were due. Textbooks are meant...

From being a NASA intern to a wardrobe stylist, an artist, and now an English teacher, Ariann Burley is a true Renaissance woman. Burley was born in Houston, grew up in Dallas, and then returned to...

In an age inundated with digital distractions and fleeting trends, reading has emerged once more as a refuge. This renaissance, which appears to have initiated during the pandemic, involved various global...

Despite its colorful, vintage, cinematography, the movie "Eileen", directed by William Oldroyd, takes us through the morbid world of Eileen Dunlop. Eileen (portrayed by Thomasin Mckenzie) lives in an unnamed...

“Abuse can feel like love.” The amount of books that romanticize abusive relationships, like the quote above from Penelope Douglas’s Nightfall, has been increasing one by one. Along with the rising...

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...