Dec 3, 2022 | Books & Literature
By Tala Abou Ali | Staff Writer In her debut novel Bonjour Tristesse (1954), a then 18 year old Francoise Sagan tells the story of Cecile, an adolescent girl who has been pursuing a life of pleasure and fun with her father Raymond ever since she exited the nunnery....
Dec 3, 2022 | Books & Literature, Featured
By Rahaf Al-Mawed | Staff Writer Spoiler Alert: 1984, Never Let Me Go, We, Brave New World, The Hunger Games. Dystopian literature is definitely a captivating literary genre, mainly because of the insight it gives and the realism it depicts, which often...
Dec 3, 2022 | Books & Literature, Featured
By Elena Hijazi | Staff Writer Lolita is an infamous classic novel written by the Russian author, Vladimir Nabokov that you have undoubtedly heard of. This piece of literature has brought forth many controversies yet transcends the test of time and continues being one...
Apr 3, 2022 | Books & Literature
By Hussein Bachacha | Staff Writer Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan. We all can recall a decent number of bad memories when it comes to history classes at school and possibly now at university. However, history as a subject is never given enough credit for being – lowkey...
Mar 27, 2022 | Books & Literature
By Garo Kerdelian | Staff Writer Dostoevsky will slap you in the face, but you’ll forgive him for it. The Idiot is a literary classic written by Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky in the 1860s. Fundamentally, The Idiot is a story: the tale of a man who returns to...
Mar 13, 2022 | Books & Literature, Human and Society
By Elena Hijazi | Staff Writer Artists have a preceding reputation of having mental issues that often lead them to a tragic death, and this is mainly because there is no nuance between the artist and the art. What do Sylvia Plath, Ernest Hemingway, Anne Sexton, and...
