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Category: Arts & Culture

A Love Letter to Pottery

Posted on December 2, 2024December 2, 2024 by Ivana Ñique

While painters will take to a canvas or poets will take to the pen, the potter takes to molding earth itself. The clay is alive and breathing and from it life is not introduced, but rather transformed.

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17 Theses, or the Theodicy of Kendrick and Drake’s Feud

Posted on September 30, 2024 by Richie George

“Diss. /dɪs/ verb 1. to treat with disrespect and contempt 2. to find fault with.” ––Merriam-Webster Dictionary

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Back to School Approval Matrix

Posted on September 30, 2024September 30, 2024 by Humyra Karim
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Reflections from the New Haven heat

Posted on December 16, 2023December 16, 2023 by Lucy Ton That

I spent this last summer splitting time between research and retail, on a race to pay for my groceries. My mornings were spent alongside the surrealists of the 20th century, shivering in the unexpected coldness of the Manuscripts archive. My afternoons were about the material, holed up in the vintage store researching obscure military buttons…

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180 Alt & Indie Songs for Studying

Posted on November 16, 2023December 4, 2023 by Esmé Talenfeld

By Esmé Talenfeld ’27 Ranked on an imaginary scale of indie to alternative Werewolf V by Werewolf Already I will admit that this ranking is sort of arbitrary–I just want to put this album first. I’ve been listening to Werewolf V on repeat since it was released earlier this week. The first time I listened,…

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