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Arts & Life
Burtner and Yilmaz recommend books for students in different majors. (Graphic: DA-HEE KIM/The Stanford Daily)

What to read this summer, based on your major

Cate Burtner and Leyla Yilmaz
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June 5
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A picture of alum Kyla Zhao to the right and a graphic of a book to the left that reads "Kyla Zhao Valley Verified" with a women walking on the cover and tall buildings, office space and hanging clothes on the background of the book's cover

Meet Kyla Zhao ’21: Data analyst by day, best-selling author by night

Grace Lee
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May 29
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Drawing of colorful books on a shelf with their sleeve towards the audience, the sleeves have "TBR" written on them and the writing on the background reads "Stanford To Be Read"

Stanford TBR: ‘There There’ composes a symphony of Native American voices

Cate Burtner
  •  
May 28
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A speaker is talking in a room of audience with "Stanford Humanities center" written across the walls

Description dances off the page at final Stegner Fellow reading

Cate Burtner
  •  
May 17
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Plates of sushi are on a table in the lecture room of SLE filled with sofas of students and a lecturer talking to them.

Food for thought: SLE Sushi Salons bring the humanities to a wider audience

Grace Zhao
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May 14
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An animated lotus flower with arcs of water around it.

Familiar words in novel contexts: Arthur Sze translates the human condition

Grace Lee
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May 10
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Author Carmen Maria Machado stands behind a lectern gesturing as though she's addressing the audience.

The beautiful and the terrible: Carmen Maria Machado reads queer horror and sci-fi

Cate Burtner
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May 8
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Drawing of colorful books on a shelf with their sleeve towards the audience, the sleeves have "TBR" written on them and the writing on the background reads "Stanford To Be Read"

‘The Husband Stitch’ retells urban legends with a feminist slant

Cate Burtner
  •  
April 30
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A graphic depicting a globe spinning on top of an open book and a person lays staring into the book.

World of Words: ‘Innards’ dissects our discomfort with the past

Breanna Burke
  •  
April 29
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Three books pink, green and blue depicted in a backdrop of a blue sky with flowers and grass at the bottom and yellow butterflies flying on top

Bookworm bulletin: Spring book recommendations

Leyla Yilmaz, Cate Burtner, Miriam Awan, Dan Kubota, Blyss Cleveland and Grace Zhao
  •  
April 26
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John Green sits comfortably, holding a microphone, as he addresses an audience.

John Green talks ‘Turtles,’ YouTube and turning away from YA

Anjali Ragupathi
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April 23
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In her novel "Ripe," Sarah Rose Etter captures the toxicity of the technocratic Bay Area culture through masterful world building and satire. (Graphic: DA-HEE KIM/The Stanford Daily)

Stanford TBR: ‘Ripe’ delivers a visceral Silicon Valley satire

Cate Burtner
  •  
April 16
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A graphic depicting globe spinning on top of an open book and a person lays staring into the book.

World of Words: ‘Breath, Eyes, Memory’ is a reckoning

Breanna Burke
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April 10
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Drawing of colorful books on a shelf with their sleeve towards the audience, the sleeves have "TBR" written on them and the writing on the background reads "Stanford To Be Read"

Stanford TBR: Yaa Gyasi’s ‘Transcendent Kingdom’ reads like a gift

Cate Burtner
  •  
April 2
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The Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), housed in Building 360. Arches and Hoover Tower visible at dusk.

Students spring into humanities research over break

Sonnet Xu
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March 13
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Student performer reads spoken word poetry in front of a well-lit stage with purple blinds that reflect the yellow spot-light.

Poetry Live unearths aliveness and authenticity

Cate Burtner
  •  
March 12
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Different phases of the moon going from crescent to full moon and back to crescent are depicted in gold in front of a red background and "The Book of Love" is written around the moons

Lyrical love winds and turns in Pulitzer Prize finalist’s debut novel

Julia Donlon
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March 10
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A graphic depicting globe spinning on top of an open book and a person lays staring into the book.

World of Words: ‘Lizard’ unveils the extraordinary in the mundane

Breanna Burke
  •  
March 6
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A graphic of Kiley Reid's profile drawn in blue stands on the right side, the left side has a text in yellow that reads "Come & Get It" in front of a green background

Almost, but not quite: Kiley Reid’s ‘Come and Get It’ falls short

Cate Burtner
  •  
Feb. 29
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A child looks at a globe floating above an open book

World of Words: Brokenness as being in ‘There Is an Anger That Moves’

Breanna Burke
  •  
Feb. 22
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