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“We defend free speech not because we want the right to scream at the top of our lungs. We defend free speech because our society and democracy depend upon our ability to reason with others, persuade, and be persuaded… The battle were waging is a fight for the lifeblood of writers, our kids education, our birthright as citizens, and the soul of our democracy,” said CEO Suzanne Nossel. (Photo Credit: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for PEN America. Used by permission of PEN America.)

Putting PEN to Paper: A Conversation with PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel

Nora Torok, Staff Reporter
July 21, 2023
Here is Kurt Vonnegut pictured with his wife Jane and his children Mark, Edie, and Nanny (from left to right). (Photo Credit: Unknown; copyright held by Edie Vonnegut., CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

The Story of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Karishma Ramkarran, Staff Reporter
July 21, 2023
William Blake (1757 – 1827) was a Romantic visionary who promoted the human imagination in his lifetime and inhis oeuvre of otherworldly artworks, considering them to be “the Body of God.” Blake’s philosophy of life can be summarized in one crucial insight: we don’t live in reality, we live in what we think reality is. If there is an essence to human existence, for Blake, it is the divine spark of the human imagination.

William Blake: In Search Of Wonder

Rajin Tahsan, Staff Reporter
July 21, 2023
Here is a solemn portrait of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky in his later years. Photo Credit: Vasily Perov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Dark Times of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Katia Anastas, Staff Reporter
July 21, 2023
“Activism is my rent for living on the planet, said the American novelist and activist Alice Walker. (Photo Credit: Matt Hrkac from Geelong / Melbourne, Australia, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

Youth Activism: A Story of Perseverance and Passion

Ruby Moran, Staff Reporter
July 21, 2023
Kazuo Ishiguro, writer and Nobel Prize laureate, graces us with a new dimension in his literary universe. His novel Klara and the Sun is a dystopian science fiction tale. (Photo Credit: Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara and the Sun’: Imagining Technology In a Not So Distant Future

Faizunnesa Mahzabin, Staff Reporter
July 20, 2023
The expansion of a language’s vocabulary is endless, just as is its decline, as well,” said Jessica Chen’ 24. (Photo Credit: Joshua Hoehne / Unsplash)

The Evolution of Language Across Centuries

Shawna Khuu, Reporter
July 19, 2023
Known as a social butterfly, avid intellectual, and superb artist, Frank O’Hara is pictured here in a moment of silent contemplation.

Frank O’Hara’s Path to Poetic Stardom

Katia Anastas, Staff Reporter
June 6, 2023
Here are the 2023 Bronx Science Shakespeare Competition winner Nava Litt ’25 (at left) and runner-up Lucy Beaubien-Paulson ’26 (at right). Both Litt and Beaubien-Paulson are fans of Shakespeare’s work. Litt said, “I think Shakespeare is unique in his ability to depict and express such a vast range of human emotion so capably and realistically.”

“Speak the Speech”: The 2023 English Speaking Union Shakespeare Competition at Bronx Science

Kate Hankin, Staff Reporter
June 6, 2023
It took Ross Benjamin over a decade to complete his new translation of Franzs Kafkas complete, unabridged diaries, which was published by Schocken Books earlier this year.

A Review of the New Translation of ‘The Diaries of Franz Kafka’ by Ross Benjamin

Otho Valentino Sella, Staff Reporter
June 6, 2023
Here is the Huntington Library in Pasadena, California, which has recently acquired the Thomas Pynchon archive.

Pynchon’s Vision of America Will Be Archived At the Huntington Library

Griffin Weiss, Staff Reporter
June 4, 2023
Many of Babitzs books capture her favorite feeling of being luxuriously involved in an unsolvable mystery.

Eve Babitz’s Revolutionary Writings

Katia Anastas, Staff Reporter
March 14, 2023
The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published as a novella in Lippincotts Monthly Magazine almost a year after it was commissioned by Stoddart. It was quickly met with outrage from Victorian audiences because of the obvious queer-coding.

An Uncensored Look Into Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’

Faizunnesa Mahzabin, Staff Reporter
March 14, 2023
Dune is the first and most well known novel in Frank Herberts iconic series, Dune irrevocably shifted the paradigm of sci-fi writing.

Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ Saga: An Analysis

Peter Rooney, Staff Reporter
March 7, 2023
If you’ve entered a bookstore lately, it’s a guarantee that you’ve run into Booktok themed displays. The community has been cited as a major game changer in how books are advertised, as well as how publishers operate.

Booktok: The Rise of Literature in the Digital Space

Nehla Chowdhury, Staff Reporter
March 7, 2023
Augustus Alexander ’25 plays the piano masterfully in the Bronx Science Auditorium. Pianists are attracted to the piano throughout all periods, but especially in the mornings before school. Sometimes, guitarists will sit on stage and strum a melody. They play soft music at times, which proves a quiet ambience during mornings, and other times a powerful melody drawing your attention, and your undivided attention.

Arts at Bronx Science

William Fernando, Staff Reporter
March 3, 2023
Jan Morris, in her introduction to the New York Review of Books edition of A Time of Gifts, published in 2005, describes the book as a work of genius.

Patrick Leigh Fermor’s European Odyssey: A Review of ‘A Time of Gifts,’ ‘Between the Woods and the Water,’ and ‘The Broken Road’

Katia Anastas, Staff Reporter
January 18, 2023
Michael Thomas has nine bestselling novels, several of which are financial thrillers based on his own lived experiences.

An Existentialist Enigma: A Profile of the Novelist Michael Thomas

Donna Celentano, Staff Reporter
January 18, 2023
Here is a collection of Spotify playlists depicting the appeal for characters other than the typical “good person.

Burn Down the World For You: The Appeal of the Morally Gray Character

Krisha Soni, Staff Reporter
January 18, 2023
Bounded by an elegant leather frame, the words Liber Novus, Latin for New Book, stand out on the front cover of Carl Jungs The Red Book.

A Journey of Great Ups-and-Downs: Carl Jung’s Visionary Insight From ‘The Red Book’

Rajin Tahsan, Staff Reporter
January 18, 2023
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