The bestselling novelist reflected on politics, immigration and the writer’s responsibility.

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"Baker’s book is as much about Stanford — as a place, idea and institution — as it is about what it means to be young," writes Cunningham.

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The Stanford Daily staff went down memory lane to share nostalgic books for National Family Reading month.

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The Daily sat down with MINT’s founder and the current co-editors-in-chief to learn about MINT’s evolution over a decade of production.

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Alice Sebold’s 2002 novel, “The Lovely Bones” risks romanticizing violence against women rather than confronting it as wrongdoing.

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Poetry teaches us that exceptionality is not won through orbiting existing paths, but by pursuing higher aims.

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Cannibalism meets feminism in Chelsea G. Summers’s novel about a serial-killer food critic who eats her lovers.

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State Street, home to Linden Tree Books and A Novel Affair, is just one example of specialty bookstores’ growing prominence.

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Powell shared poems spanning a decade of his work, featuring works about faith, resilience and desire, shaped by natural imagery.

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The female protagonist of Leigh Bardugo's fantasy duology embodies strength in the battles women face in a patriarchy.

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Joy Harjo, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the U.S., read selected works at a Thursday event hosted by the Women’s Community Center.

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Stephanie Garber’s fantasy novel embodies harmful misconceptions about women.

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"Speak" explores silence as a corrosive behavior that promotes submission to institutional demands.

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The female protagonist of Sarah J. Maas’ fantasy novel embodies strength and cleverness that defies gender stereotypes.

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Debuting his column, “Californian Revelations,” Azzam Shafi '28 reflects on love in poetry.

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Columnist Dayanara Yepez Ramirez ’28 attempts to articulate the flummoxing journey author Caitlin Starling takes readers through.

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In his Lane Lecture Series talk on Feb. 25, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen said that in America, “the beauty is made possible by the brutality.”

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Depicted as helpless and naive, the female protagonist of Tahereh Mafi’s dystopian novel embodies problematic gender stereotypes.

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Corry combines a woman’s legal career with a fragile marriage and old threats from the past, reminding readers that success without self-protection is its own insidious danger.

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Using 19th-century France as a parallel to modern democratic erosion, the Yale historian argued that Charles Baudelaire’s "gray zone" of complicity and irony represents the most typical experience of a writer surviving under tyranny.

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Not everything that eats you has to do so using its mouth. In Jenny Hval’s novel, Jo rapidly becomes consumed by thoughts of her roommate Carral, accentuating the blurring nature of queer desire.

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