Utopian Harmony

by Max MacLaren

The only way to achieve utopianism is to remain open to change.

Humor in Darkness: Chris Gethard’s “Career Suicide”

by Athena Blyth

To fully navigate and articulate the subtleties of our psychological landscape, we must be willing to embrace unorthodox paths.

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“Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ”

by Eli Tobisman Pearl

Through this study of public execution, we can start to understand why, throughout history, humans have killed each other publically, and why other humans have watched.

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Canal Street Survey

By Abigail Betts on October 4, 2024

Although caves seem as though they would be simply defined and innately understood, a liminal space exists on the periphery of this category where categorical membership—and the very definition of the category itself—is called into question.

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Ruined Houses Through the Lens of Architecture

By Qiyun (Q) Gao on October 2, 2024

The upward human will and the downward power of nature are crystallized within a single ruin.

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Mala Pata

By Claudia Lopez-Ona on September 30, 2024

The lawns were entirely covered with shredded pieces of the wreckage. Palm tree trunks were snapped in half like little twigs.

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Funny by Osmosis

By Sarah Wills on September 27, 2024

The funniest person I know is not a person, it is the entity that is the group dynamic between Becca, Jack, and myself.

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The Limitations of the Serialized/Episodic Dichotomy

By Sawyer Gouw Ranzetta on September 25, 2024

In Atlanta, the relationship between episodes is more diffuse like that of a deviating episode.

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Elizabeth Bishop’s “At the Fishhouses”

By Mia Sloan on September 23, 2024

To the reader, it seems as though the escalation of transfiguration—as concrete and abstract realities transform, invert, and collide into one another—culminates in an epiphanic breach into the eternal.

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To Be Seen Is to Be Known

By Hope Donovan on September 20, 2024

Every image we create reminds us of our capacity to create and shape reality according to our perception.

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Son-mat

By Abigail Betts on September 18, 2024

With son-mat in mind, the act of cooking transformed into a cycle of energy from the cook to the food and back again, with each dish fueling the creation of the next.

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The Feminine Conclusion

By Dagny Edwards on September 16, 2024

If Eliot and Brontë leave any message behind in their work, it is that no ending is ever perfect, but that each means, however small, contributes to the full picture at the end.

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