Powerful. Hauntingly beautiful. Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life at once shatters you and puts you back together–again and yet again. When you think you have had enough, it gives you more. When think you are ready for more it gives you questions without answers. The title is misleading, the lives contained within are hardly little, […]

If you are reading this recommendation than it is likely that you love to read. If you love to read than it is an impossibility to not love Oscar. A boy growing up in a world where such reading makes you an outcast, where intellect holds no value; a world where being Dominican American and being […]

I want to curse. A lot. F-bombs like air–required for breathing. This book does that to you. It leaves you days later, days after turning that last page with invectives burned into the darkest corners of memory poised on the edge of your tongue ready to spill at the slightest provocation. Gabriel Tallent’s, My Absolute […]

My response to a classmate sharing Deborah William’s Discovering Feminist Students in the Middle East, and asking several pointed questions. Have you ever read, Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi? Or listened to the honeyed voice of Shohreh Aghdashloo reading Anita Amirrezvani’s The Blood of Flowers? Your article by Deborah Williams instantly pulled me into the vortex of the memory […]

“The more you read, the more you know. The more you know, the more places you’ll go”                -Dr. Seuss The process of reflection has never been so complete as it has been in this Capstone course. To review with full understanding the body of work produced in a […]

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