In the area where I live, there are a lot of places to eat from a distance: a pizza place across the street, a 7th Street Burger, a coffee shop and two
This year’s Upper School community read was Hanif Abdurraqib’s “There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension.” Abdurraqib, a poet, essayist, novelist and cultural critic, has received many awards. These include the
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Nuanced characters are the hallmarks of good fiction. Plot is important and all, but without an interesting perspective, narrative and thematic potential flounder under bland interpretation. Rachel Cusk’s “Outline” takes the importance
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The Moon hanging just feet above the Earth’s surface, full of Moon-milk for the taking. The experience of existence when all matter existed in a single point. A being desperate to leave
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On Monday, September 23, the Metropolitan Opera reopened its doors with Tony Award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s English-language opera Grounded, which premiered last year at the Kennedy Center. Commissioned by the Met and
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Over the years, the Video Music Awards (VMAs) has been the site of some of the most memorable pop culture moments like Britney Spears’ snake performance and Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift’s
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