The Third Type of Clarity by Anushka Shah
I always thought there were two types of clarity. Like a double-sided coin, each side is equal but different. Sometimes it hits like a lightning …
Non-Fiction
Selina Meyer and Richard Nixon – A Nixonian Character Analysis of Veep by Porter Reyes
Many political insiders hail HBO’s hit television show Veep as the most accurate television show about American politics. Veep’s protagonist, Selina Meyer, starts in season …
Wildflowers by Annie Bragdon
Phloxes overthrew my garden. Variegated pink crowns upheld by green stems crowded and cast shadows on the picked-over strawberries. I foolishly thought I could control …
Nesting Doll: (In)sincerity in The Rehearsal by Annie Bragdon
In HBO Max’s The Rehearsal, comedian Nathan Fielder uses extravagant resources to allow “ordinary people to prepare for life’s biggest moments by ‘rehearsing’ them …
The Successes of Mike Posner’s “I Took a Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix)” by Golda Grais
Mike Posner is a name you may only have a passing memory of, and Mike Posner knows that. Posner first emerged as an artist in …
Homeric War by Anushka Shah
Rage. So begins the Iliad, calling on the Muses to sing of the “murderous [and] doomed” rage of Achilles (1:2). The Iliad begins and ends …
John Leonard Prize Finalist R.O. Kwon on Faith and Writing Through Grief by Mirabella Miller
On Monday evening, I sat enraptured in Mary Routt Chair of Writing R.O Kwon’s office as she wove meditations on faith and belief into our …
Through the Looking Glass: Donald Trump, Heteronormativity and Homosociality by Jessica Mei
Congratulations to Jessica Mei for winning the Sands Essay Award in the Scripps College Journal 2019 Writing & Art Contest! …
Passive Resistance in Anita Hill’s Testimony Against Clarence Thomas by Anna Madison Burns
Congratulations to Anna Madison Burns for winning the Sands Essay Award in the Scripps College Journal 2019 Writing & Art Contest! …