a bi-weekly column by michelle ampofo ‘25 managing editor ✶✶✶ ALL THINGS MUST GO This column is mostly recommendations this week because I’ve abandoned thought, though not consideration. But first, a word. We’re so close to the end of the school year. SO close. But I feel increasingly contained and uninspired. So I want to…
Category: Arts & Culture
The Devastation Genealogy
by Edwin Zishiri ’25 DADDY A small devastation is the sound that Daddy made when he put the cup down. He was always putting that brown cup down. That brown cup with the rotten, brown afterlife in it. That cup that he took with him to the park with the lavender flowers and big oak…
Submersed Beneath the Waves: An Exploration of SZA’s SOS
By: Aiden Wright ’26 “I just want what’s mine.” The lyric lurches with the weight of conviction and lands withresolute certainty, both a proclamation and a promise. In SOS, the namesake track of the album,SZA announces her resurgence, setting forth her intention to cement herself as a vocal talent ofour generation – and that she…
Sexual Violence is Not Art: A Critique of Andrew Dominik’s Blonde
By Amelia Winn ’25 Managing Editor “There’s something in it to offend everyone,” Andrew Dominik proudly claimed when asked about the critiques of his wildly incendiary film, Blonde. With a 42% on Rotten Tomatoes and armed with arthouse film aesthetics, Dominik has induced an outcry in response to its inaccuracies about the life of Norma…
Can Representation Save Us?
By Humyra Karim ’26 Staff Writer Like clockwork, every few media cycles, another classic story or character is remade as slightly more progressive. And as usual so-called “traditionalist” Twitter trolls emerge ready to spew their repetitive vitriol in the name of source authenticity. This month it was Scooby-Doo, last month it was The Little Mermaid,…