May Horoscopes
Our managing editor trains his gimlet eye on the future ahead. AQUARIUS Jan 20–Feb 18 If you’ve been considering giving online dating a try, now is a good time. The…
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Close To Home
I love to sit in my bedroom, adjacent to my father’s office, and hear him laugh. More often than not he is listening to Monty Python audio tapes from the…
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Stressed, Struggling, Succeeding
The only thing that could make my chocolate-covered mouth fall open—besides another bite of a Bova’s peanut butter chip cannoli—was the Boston skyline. I was a freshman walking back from…
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To My Banana Sisters
I remember when I first heard someone use the word “banana” to describe themselves, it was the adopted Chinese daughter of a distant family friend who’d used it in a…
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Devourer or Maiden? Women in Sci-Fi
When you hear the words science fiction, movies like Star Wars and Star Trek (anything with “Star” written in front of it) come to mind. You think of futuristic and…
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Cult Madness: Emma Cline’s The Girls
The Girls by Emma Cline caused a publishing frenzy two years ago when it was rumored to have fetched the debut novelist a multi-million dollar advance. Due out in June,…
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Punk Publishing: A Look into Zines
In 2016 we live in a digital age where social media serves as an outlet for members of different subcultures to come together and share their opinions. But gamer geeks…
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Translation: Lost or Found?
The first time I watched the classic American 90s sitcom The Nanny, I wasn’t in America. I was twelve years old, staying with my grandparents in Croatia for the summer….
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Audio Arousal: The Boyfriend Experience
“I love your breasts,” he says forcefully. “I know that just about every woman who’s ever lived is insecure—that she doesn’t think hers are right; that they’re too big or…
