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It is not merely a game. Chess Story, the last novel written by Stefan Zweig, revolves around discovering the background of a mysteriously magnificent chess player who accidentally finds himself passenger on the same ship to Buenos Aires as the world champion of the very game. What follows is an une... - Reviews > Book ReviewsRepulsive, grotesque, and fascinating are merely three of the myriad of words that come to mind when reading the novel Perfume, by Patrick Süskind. The tale told by Süskind is as rare as the perfumes created by Grenouille, the book’s detached, macabre protagonist, gifted with an innate affinity ...
- Reviews > Book ReviewsEvery so often, a story comes along that has the power to reveal behaviors concerning the human kind that are frightening and yet are simultaneously true to even an uncomfortable extent. Earnest, sincere, multigenerational tales such as those within Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine are to be treasur...
- Opinion > Social Issues / CivicsJustice, sacrifice, and courage. One day, my mother and I, newcomers to Berkeley, huddled in the marine park named after Cesar Chavez. I sought only a beautiful sunrise but was offered much more than that. There, I first met you, Mr. Chavez. We talked at length, mostly about my concerns, but also in...
- Poetry > Free VerseI will not live in fear of losing what I keep inside my heart. No matter where I go, what language I speak, whom I will meet. I will not live in fear of losing myself. That is the place I like the most. There I will stay....
- Poetry > Free VerseSlowly he paced The wooden emptiness surrounding him, Each tree triggered a long lost face Yet he found the musky smell in the air charming, for It brought color to her blurring face She was still the main focus on his mind; Solitude and resistance embraced his dim, protesting halo, He was no...
- Reviews > Movie ReviewsPeople often speak of time capsules, of traveling back in time to experience iconic snapshots. With this in mind, what could be more iconic than life itself? Imagine stumbling upon 90 minutes of an exquisitely edited recording of homemade clips that span from a little girl climbing human towers in ...
- Reviews > Book ReviewsWhen I was young, I was terrified of the monster I believed Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to be. I feared his stature and the metal bolts running through his neck, loathed his sickly skin and phantasmagoric eyes. Frankenstein to me was what pop culture had made him out to be. When I summed up the co...
- Reviews > Book ReviewsTimeless is the sin that exists within the human condition. It is timeless to seek exemption from suffering, only to emerge a graceful, knowledgeable human being. The judgment and marginalization imposed on human beings and its impact on society and its members can be considered a perennial concept....
- Reviews > Book ReviewsDo not let a title fool you. The name of Khaled Hosseini’s novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, might evoke memories of numerous long, beautiful days, perhaps a romance or a marvelous childhood memory. Instead, the book is the polar opposite of what its title portrays. Each page describes a horror see...
- Poetry > Free Verse“Nothing really matters” “1,2,3,4” “Nothing really matters” “1,2,3,4” Her monotonous voice went on and on, Telling me that story without beginning or end. Outside, the sun, the fun. “1,2,3,4” Here, nothing else. I took time. Time to hear, look and smell. “Noth...
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- Opinion > Social Issues / CivicsI am writing this letter because I love my grandma more than anything. Her nickname is Vavi, she is 79 years old, her hair is white as snow, and she adores listening to the radio. She is interested in almost everything: politics, medicine, modern culture. She is the one who told me, “Never ever sa...
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