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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
Reading works from diverse authors resonates with Bronx Science students and teachers. Here, Genevieve Morange ‘22 is reading The Idiot, a semi-autobiographical novel by Turkish-American author Elif Batuman. Selin, the main character, is a linguistics student at Harvard who struggles to fathom adulthood, the world, and her own identity.

Classic Literature is Monochrome: The Need for Reshaping the Western Canon

Charlotte Zhou, Staff Reporter
March 13, 2022
“Literary gems like Faust bear witness to the universal truths of human nature and the world around us. We need to study the classics in order to understand present dilemmas and forge a better future,” said Sela Emery ‘23.

The Future of Humanity Lies in the Folklore and Fire of Faustian Bargains; Now, We Must Escape Them

Katia Anastas, Staff Reporter
December 2, 2021
In general, Bronx Science students are highly supportive of the humanities. “I think that my English class is useful, because the exposure to new texts and the class discussions give me a broader perspective on the world. My STEM classes do the same thing, but in different ways,” Eva Uddin ’24 said.

The Vitality of the Bronx Science English Department

Maggie Schneider, Staff Reporter
December 2, 2021
Ms. Sweis, one of the Bronx Science librarians, is a fan of coming-of-age novels. The tags feature on Goodreads helps her keep track of titles and authors. Outside of the library, she likes gardening, hiking, and bicycling.

A Closer Read of the Bronx Science Library

Dorothea Dwomoh, Staff Reporter
December 2, 2021
The deep black cover of Girlhood foreshadows the intensity of the essays contained inside.

This Tale of Girlhood is Not for the Light-Hearted

Maggie Schneider, Staff Reporter
June 11, 2021
Let Me Tell You What I Mean, by Joan Didion, has just been published by the Alfred K. Knopf publishing imprint, part of Random House.

Let Me Tell You What (I Think) She Means: A Review of ‘Let Me Tell You What I Mean’ by Joan Didion

Edie Fine, Staff Reporter
May 2, 2021
Accountability is key to a writer’s work / life balance. “I had friends who would say, ‘What did you write today?’, so that made me even more motivated to keep going,” Tashie Bhuiyan 16 said.

‘Stay as Strong as We Can’: A Profile of Novelist Tashie Bhuiyan ’16

Raitah Jinnat, Staff Reporter
May 2, 2021
Two of the most well known classic 20th century American novels, Of Mice and Men and To Kill A Mockingbird, are also considered to be controversial in some school districts across America.

The Controversy of Banned Books in American High Schools

Alexandra Zwiebel, Staff Reporter
January 8, 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
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