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-11 posts tagged "Fiction"
Allison Srp | Monday, October 30, 2023
Erasmus Books, a used bookstore located about a 10-minute drive from campus, stands in stark contrast to bookstores like Barnes and Noble. The store is in a house in a residential area of South Bend. Rather than being brightly lit and full of tables of recent bestsellers, Erasmus Books is cozy and a bit dim,
Marcelle Couto | Tuesday, September 19, 2023
In our age dominated by entertainment, fiction has become a crucial aspect of our lives. This accessibility of fiction is, in some ways, one of the reasons we have the Scene column in the first place. Now, more than ever, we are able to freely cultivate the ability to immerse ourselves in creative, mythical worlds.
Carlos Basurto | Thursday, April 27, 2023
As classes at long last come to an end, and finals loom on the horizon, plenty of students have begun to show signs of exhaustion from their long-lasting struggle against the never-ending barrage of work. Under these circumstances, it is only natural for a particular sense of overthinking to arise within us. Given this, and
Angela Mathew | Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Elaine Hsieh Chou described her 2022 novel, “Disorientation,” as the story of what happens when “a student who is clueless about race finds out the most racist secret at her school.” Ingrid Yang is a 29-year-old Taiwanese-American PhD student who has spent nine years writing a dissertation on Xiao Wen-Chou, the (fictional) “father of Chinese-American
Angela Mathew | Wednesday, November 30, 2022
When I told my friend about “The Rabbit Hutch” winning the National Book Award, she naturally asked me what the book is about. I grasped around for words but instead, vivid scenes flashed before my eyes. Voodoo dolls dropping from the ceiling, a white-haired girl obsessing over Hildegard von Bingen, a Catholic mystic and a
Madeline Law | Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Spring break is not in two weeks. It can’t be. I still have two papers, a rewrite, a project and two midterms to tackle, not to mention rehearsals and work and … oh yeah, going to classes. All in 14 days. Did I stress you out? My bad. I stressed myself out, too. Despite these
Lexi Kilcoin | Monday, October 4, 2021
“The only thing I have to offer is my voice.” I often say this in the context of worship groups I am a part of where everyone seems to be able to play three instruments, read music and sing all the while. Literally the only thing I can offer are my measly vocal chords. New
Gabriel Niforatos | Monday, September 21, 2020
Before we begin, I want to tell you that the regular author of this column hates riddles. Ah yes, I should probably divulge that Mr. Niforatos told me to tell you something formal and businesslike — “He had some important matters to attend to and couldn’t take up the pen this week” — but truth
Abigail Piper | Tuesday, February 20, 2018
“In this false world, we guard our lives with our deaths.” When I began reading “Call Me Zebra,” quotes like this made me think it was going to be a hard read. I did not need another “The Satanic Verses” circa 2015 moment, where the entire book flew so far over my head a sharpshooter
Nora McGreevy | Friday, April 21, 2017
When his family immigrated to the United States from Mexico, one of the first things Rigoberto Gonzalez’s father did was to pull over and park the family car at a roadside hotdog stand. He told his son to go order a hot dog. The young Gonzalez, although born in California, had grown up in Mexico