Angie Haas//Blog Writer Have you ever picked up a book and, as soon as you started to read it, you felt like a child again? Suddenly, your imagination and dreams are limitless within the confines of the pages. This…
Category: Reviews
Review of Hillary Clinton’s What Happened
Kyle Labe//Blog Writer I hesitate to label Hillary Clinton’s What Happened as a political memoir. It’s much more than that. It is part feminist manifesto, part contemplation on loss and moving on, part behind-the-scenes campaign documentary, and even sometimes a…
War History: As Told By Graphic Novels
Sarah Vincent//Blog Writer Artists find millions of devices to filter their art through. For some it is poetry or photography. And, for one very particular group, graphic novels are a way to tell their own story, with some amazing tales…
Revisiting a Classic: Kurt Vonnegut Delivers a Masterpiece with Breakfast of Champions
Jonathan Smith // Blog Writer Originally published in 1973, Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions offers some of the wittiest satire in the history of American literature. Vonnegut’s signature political and social commentary, as evident in his popular novels Slaughterhouse-Five and…
Mixed Feelings about Book-to-Film
Sarah Vincent//Blog Writer In January of 2016, I took a flight to Florida from T.F. Green Airport in Providence, RI, that changed my life. As we do every year before a family vacation, my mother and I drove to the…
#myfavoritebook – Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Sophia Uy//Blog Writer Uprooted by Naomi Novik is a fantasy novel heavily inspired by Eastern European folklore and one of my favorite books in the last five years. For a stand-alone novel, the story packs a surprising punch with an…
What’s Up with Arms From the Sea?
Christina Bagni//Blog Writer Perhaps you heard whispered rumors in the air. Perhaps it happened to a friend. Perhaps it has even happened to you. At the corner of Boylston and Tremont, unsuspecting Emerson students have been handed mysterious hardcover books…
New Egyptian Translations Spark Renewed Love of Egypt
Christina Bagni//Blog Writer It’s practically a rite of passage for kids to go through an “Ancient Egypt” phase. Mine lasted from fifth grade through all of middle school, during which I wrote half-researched stories about Ra and Set and wore…
Nonfiction at Its Best: Unraveling Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
Jonathan Smith // Blog Writer I heard of Marjane Satrapi’s memoir, Persepolis, back in high school, but never picked it up until my college history course last semester. I was ready to feel depressed because both parts of the memoir,…
Make Lit Class Great Again: Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Christina Bagni//Blog Writer Dorothy Allison’s novel Bastard out of Carolina has the voice of To Kill a Mockingbird, the detailed characters of Beloved, and the suspense of a Stephen King novel. It is rare to see an honest, unfiltered…