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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
The Complete Stories’ by Flannery O’Connor won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1972, twelve years after O ‘Connors death, cementing her place as one of the most timeless writers to ever come out of the American South.

Ghosts from the Past: Gothic Fiction of the American South

Otho Valentino Sella, Staff Reporter
December 29, 2022
Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ (1927) resembles Los Angeles in Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner.’

Tales of the Future: Cyberpunk

Karishma Ramkarran, Staff Reporter
August 1, 2022
Here is the cover of Harper Lees Go Set a Watchman.

What is ‘Go Set a Watchman’?

Otho Valentino Sella, Staff Reporter
July 21, 2022
Here is Mr. Grossman playing his favorite guitar, a Fender Stratacoustic.

A Respect for Literature in All Its Forms: A Profile of English Teacher Mr. Grossman

Ryan Goldsmith, Staff Reporter
July 20, 2022
Here is the front of Westsider bookstore, stocked with tote bags, featured books, and postcards. Employees can usually be found sitting behind the counter.

Westsider Rare and Used Bookstore: A Survivor Representing New York’s Rich Literary and Artistic History

Alexandra Smithie, Staff Reporter
July 20, 2022
Here is an illustration of James Joyce, drawn by artist Adolf Hoffmeister.

One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’

Otho Valentino Sella, Staff Reporter
April 27, 2022
Jane Austen is most known for her six published and finished novels, all made into various spin-offs and adaptations for generations to love.

Jane Austen: Universally Acknowledged

Maliha Chowdhury, Staff Reporter
April 27, 2022
Here is a digitally drawn work of fan art of an older Biwa underneath sala flowers, a motif in the Heike Monogatari that represents the decline of the prosperous.

To Recall the Future: A Review of ‘The Heike Story’

Paromita Talukder, Staff Reporter
April 27, 2022
“Labels tend to reflect the novels/stories that the public responds to and what a writer can sell (they need to make a living, after all), despite a writers broad output. Jackson is not the only one who has been categorized based on mass appeal, but a deeper reading of an authors entire output often reveals more variety than a writers reputation would indicate,” Mr. Licardo said.

Estranged Estates and Fallible Females: How Shirley Jackson’s ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ Redefined Feminist Literature

Camila Kulahlioglu, Staff Reporter
April 23, 2022
The Library of America has published Joan Didion’s seminal works from the 1960s through 1990s in two separate volumes.

Joan Didion’s Luminescent Literary Legacy

Katia Anastas, Staff Reporter
March 16, 2022
Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles is featured in Bronx Science’s library. Students are free to check out the book and enjoy it for themselves.

A World of New Retellings: A Review of the Oeuvre of the Writer Madeline Miller

Pritika Patel, Staff Reporter
March 16, 2022
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