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  • SOAPBOX: Foregrounding Sudan

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    Dear Reader, I’ve recently noticed a pattern. The world today has become remarkably comfortable making Sudanese suffering relative: relative to geography, relative to other conflicts, relative to who is responsible for them. We are cast aside as an unfortunate situation, our struggles treated as both instinctual and inevitable on the global scale. But when the…

  • SOAPBOX: This Jane Doe

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    On sexual violence, the temporality of trauma, and seeing ourselves in Cornell.

  • Bogotá

    Bogotá

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    Lloras como niña empedernida:  La lágrima rasga a ratos la cortina    Y me miras, afligida, como si la culpa fuera mía.    Me dices, a bocinazos,  Que los carros te atraviesan la cintura, Y transitan tu pecho con su chafa montura  Para sentarse a cuchichear.    Si refundo tu voz entre el largo suspiro …

  • Night Atlas

    Night Atlas

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    “If you took the highway and hiked the trail and camped out three days three times over very carefully it took a long time and finally it would be light, and then you could go to sleep, if you were in a place where you could sleep in the daylight.”

  • Rave Inside the Machine

    Rave Inside the Machine

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    On the ironies of the corporate aesthetic embodied by DJ John Summit’s CTRL ESCAPE, raving inside the machine.

  • Noble Motives, a Greek Tragedy

    Noble Motives, a Greek Tragedy

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    Characters WATCHMAN CHORUS of Naxian Elders AGATHON, candidate for Keeper of the Hearth EURYKLES, Steward CASSANDRA, scribe of the Naxian scroll FURIES ATHENA Scene: The island-city of Naxos, before the Hall of Naxos. The WATCHMAN is on the roof. WATCHMAN Deathless gods, with bloody tears I plead: grant respite from my plight, from Naxos’s roof,…

  • Go Wonder at the Riders in Isatch Canyon

    Go Wonder at the Riders in Isatch Canyon

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    On a familiar battle between good and evil in Mark Z. Danielewski’s Tom’s Crossing, and its unfamiliar resistance to ambiguity and the moral greyspace.

  • Angel Days

    Angel Days

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    “We were never close while he was alive. That’s why I’m putting in all this effort now, to make up for all my years of being a bad son.”

  • Aurochs

    Aurochs

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    Let archaeologists make beasts like bulls out of bodies like ours. Let them find    faith in our boyhood bones, find fault in the pools of our hips. Last night, I drew up    medicine like clear water and loosed 22-gauge  needle in my leg. In the blood that swelled I sank:   I was…

  • Called Olympic

    Called Olympic

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    You created me with that thrashing tongue of garbled half-waves on  smooth sound stones, aged by thousands of caressing palms looking to skip on Puget’s icy surface.   You made my patronymic the peninsula,  home to faces of fathers  upon fathers— their hands in the murk which  I track over your face.   Baptized by…

  • A WET HOT FOOD FOR THOUGHT AMERICAN SUMMER: Full Design

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    Pick up a copy around campus, or view the full design here!

  • Spoonerism: Chick Teck: Full Design

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    Pick up a copy around campus, or view the full design here!

  • Letter From The Editor

    Letter From The Editor

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    Dear friends,   We can be so timid with language when we speak. We worry about when to and not to use it, worry if we’re using it right, worry we’re using too many words to say something, worry what we’re saying isn’t coming across in the words we’re using. Each sentiment or feeling or…

  • SOAPBOX: WE, WHO HAVE SELDOM BEEN HUMAN

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    This is the launch of a weekly current events column by Co-Managing Editor Narges Anzali.

  • The German Class

    The German Class

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    “This time it would be a German book, specifically Die Bibel, which his wife had brought back from the church for free on the previous Sunday, after a German pastor had come to give a talk. They had been giving out Chinese Bibles, but ran out, so the pastor brought out some old German versions.”

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