Olivia Smith // Blog Director Have you ever cut a book down its spine? Back in January, The Washington Post published an opinion piece titled, “If You Love Books, Do Not Cut Them in Half.” The piece was a response…
Julia Brukx // Blog Assistant The city of Salem, Massachusetts, site of the infamous seventeenth-century witch trials and bustling October tourist attraction, announced recently that they would be shutting down for the two weeks before Halloween—traditionally their biggest weekends of…
Ana Hein // Blog Writer It’s a classic personality test: are you a Meg, Jo, Beth, or Amy? I have pondered over this question at length ever since I first read Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, Little Women, back in…
Ana Hein // Blog Writer Paris at night. A woman – any woman you prefer to imagine, it does not matter who – walks down the street, or gets off the Metro, or exits from a cafe. However she does…
Ana Hein // Blog Writer You’ve been in this scenario before. You’re on the T. It’s packed – you’re probably on the redline. You’re standing smack in the center of the human version of a sardine can, and if one…
Ana Hein // Blog Writer Normally, buying a book for a six-hour plane ride is a good idea, but when you’re already bringing three books on said plane (and have about another twelve in a checked bag), the addition of…
Camila Fagen Guitron // Blog Writer Anthony Rodriguez, Emerson College student and avid reader, recalls sitting down with the last book in the Divergent trilogy when his favorite character—who will not be named for spoiler reasons—suddenly died. “It felt like…
Kyle Labe//Blog Writer In Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, the third installment in Elena Ferrante’s triumphant Neapolitan Novels, the narrator lists for a page everything she wants to do away with, everything on which she’d like to “spit”:…
Anthony Rodriguez//Blog Writer Reading slumps are possibly the worst thing that can happen to someone, at least in my opinion. Sadly, this happens to the best of us, and life gets in the way of our precious reading time. I,…
Sarah Vincent//Blog Writer Every artist has their own way of displaying hard concepts so that they are accessible to a wide variety of audiences. For those who don’t experience traumatic events personally, there is almost always some form of art…
