Reading Time: 1 Min. The following is from Yu Miri’s End of August . A Korean author writing in Japanese, Yu Miri has with over twenty books to her name. She received Japan’s most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, and her novel, Tokyo Ueno Station , also translated by Morgan Giles, won the 2020 […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. Our fivesome of fascinating reviews this week includes Mateo Askaripour on Jamel Brinkley’s Witness , Katy Waldman on Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake , Michael Frank on Patrick deWitt’s The Librarianist , Apoorva Tadepalli on Lydia Kiesling’s Mobility , and Jennifer Szalai on Wolfram Eilenberger’s The Visionaries . Brought to you by […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. Screenshot from “The Bear” Season 2, Episode 3 In “Sundae,” the third episode of the recently-released second season of Hulu’s The Bear , chef Sydney Adamu, played by Ayo Edebiri, spends a day-long culinary journey around Chicago as a palate “reset” for the menu she and her business partner, chef Carmine […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. A woman reading a braille book. / Westend61/Westend61/Getty Images Braille is a tactile system that blind people use to learn to read and write, invented in 1824 by a blind French educator named Louis Braille. He revolutionized an existing writing and reading system that allowed blind people to enjoy books and […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. The following is from Victoria Kielland’s My Men . Kielland’s first book, the 2013 short prose collection I lyngen (In the Heather) was shortlisted for the Tarjei Vesaas debutant prize. In 2016, Kielland’s first novel Dammyr (Marsh Pond) was shortlisted for the Youth Critics’ Prize and the literary committee of the […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. WHALEFALL , by Daniel Kraus In marine biology, a whale fall is the body of a dead whale that has slowly descended to the bottom of the ocean. Scavengers strip its flesh, crustaceans and other creatures colonize its skeleton and its decaying bones help sustain countless organisms for years to come, […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. Image Nataly Gruender In 2020, amidst the pandemic, Nataly Gruender graduated with a double major in English and Creative Writing in the Department of English and a minor in Classics. During her time as a student, she also served as an SBS Ambassador , representing and promoting the college. Presently, Nataly […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. Carl Larsson’s Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in the forest via Wikimedia Commons This is one of those stories that begins with a female body,” opens Erica Berry’s evocative exploration of wolves, fear, and the female experience, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear . Though […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. It’s been quite a year for ChatGPT, with the large language model (LLM) now taking exams, churning out content , searching the web, writing code, and more. The AI chatbot can produce its own stories , though whether they’re any good is another matter. If you’re in any way involved in […]
Reading Time: 1 Min. It’s been quite a year for ChatGPT, with the large language model (LLM) now taking exams, churning out content , searching the web, writing code, and more. The AI chatbot can produce its own stories , though whether they’re any good is another matter. If you’re in any way involved in […]
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