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Pithiya D’ Costa, Kristen Li, and Tasnim Hossain (left to right) began leading the book club when school was online during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Building a Community of Readers: A Profile of the Bronx Science Book Club

Victoria Diaz, Staff Reporter
July 21, 2022
When dealing with comfort characters, the line between reality and make-believe is often uncertain. Reading has been studied to bring down levels of stress by up to sixty eight percent and its narratives bring in greater empathy and understanding. However, there is a large difference between using these stories for greater emotional connection and dissociation from reality.

Comfort Characters: An Exploration of Fandoms and Fiction

Hallel Abrams Gerber, Staff Reporter
July 21, 2022
The struggle to remember the name of this bone, the Iliac Crest, becomes a central point of the novel.

The Danger in a Certain Knowing: A Review of Cristina Rivera Garza’s ‘The Iliac Crest’

Cadence Chen, Staff Reporter
April 24, 2022
Named for its sweet aroma, the titular Sweetgrass is a wild grass native to North America and Eurasia. It holds spiritual significance to indigenous peoples throughout the American continent, including members of the Potawatomi Nation.

Honoring a ‘Covenant Of Reciprocity’: A Review of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’

Nora Sissenich, Staff Reporter
December 2, 2021
Here is a worn copy of “The Miraculous Adventures of Edward Tulane” with its tattered corners, passed down from my cousin who had read it years prior.

Revisiting ‘The Miraculous Adventures of Edward Tulane’

Nicole Zhou, Staff Reporter
June 9, 2021
Jeffrey Eugenides’ writing style is decorated with detail, haunted with mystery, and exemplifies the complexity of the human mind and experience, said Sela Emery 23.

Dark, Deep, and Dreamy: A Review of Jeffrey Eugenides’s Novels ‘Middlesex’ and ‘The Marriage Plot’

Katia Anastas, Staff Reporter
March 20, 2021
Barack Obama’s 768-page memoir takes readers on a vivid stroll of the years that catapulted him into the Presidency and the challenges that he faced along the way.

A Review of Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’

Dorothea Dwomoh, Staff Reporter
January 12, 2021
The Confidence Man is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville. Scholar Robert Milder noted, Long mistaken for a flawed novel, the book is now admired as a masterpiece of irony and control, although it continues to resist interpretive consensus.

The Nature of Truth and Fiction in Herman Melville’s ‘The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade’

Fahim Zaman, Staff Reporter
December 4, 2020
In times when you feel that the world and your mind are spinning too swiftly, it is good to slow down with a book —whether that book is read for pleasure or knowledge. Either way, you are bound to learn something new about yourself.

Six Books to Read Before Going to College

Cadence Chen, Staff Reporter
November 11, 2020
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