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In the Glow of this Candle
“It does not matter that Claire in real life, though a remarkably talented singer, is not a songwriter. This Claire is not that Claire, even though they are inextricably linked by more than their names and the name of their current partners.”
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Notebook of a Departure from an Adopted Home
“For two years I’ve liked to think that my Bolivian ID is more than just a conversation starter, that it grounds my daily life in my relationship to a country I for a time called my home.”
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Pete Recommends: A Critical Reappraisal of Stairway to Heaven
“But both in spite and because of this ubiquity, “Stairway to Heaven” gets a little slept on, relegated to the status of “rock classic” and thought of as a song more to be heard than to be enjoyed.”
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Solutions of the Spirit: Art Under Climate Threat
Advocating for art and creativity despite despair about the environment.
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Moments of Dreams: Dawes in Six Albums and Seven Stories
“In my moments of dogged hope, I would play “Moon in the Water,” an acoustic ballad where Goldsmith proclaims that ‘Love is for the fighter / Born to lose but never quit / Swinging for the moon in the water.’”
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Nass Recommends (Pete Recommends?) “Bodys” by Car Seat Headrest
“Wherever you are, it’s no longer about the words but now about an ineffable energy that paradoxically grounds you and makes you feel weightless.”
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Listening In: Book Fight and Auditory Voyeurism
“How wonderful it is to be alive—to know that we are all here, occupying the same moments as everyone else, breathing, blinking, living.”
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Nass Recommends The Tsar of Love and Techno
“This novel-in-stories traces the lives of multiple generations of characters from the early days of the Soviet Union up into the near-future, all interconnected by an obscure nineteenth-century painting.”
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Peter Taylor ’22 Reflection
“I had made a positive impact on someone else; I had connected through my words to another mind, another person.”
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How to Talk to Your Friend about Jordan Peterson (and Social Justice)
The challenges of friendship with a fan of Jordan Peterson.