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Jodi Tang | Senior Graphic Artist

REVIEW: ‘Hello Beautiful’ | Required Reading

Hazel Nystrom April 7, 2025
 If you have sisters like I do, this book will absolutely make you cry. If you don’t have sisters, you’ll probably still cry, too.“Hello Beautiful” is emotional, and your heart will break alongside the Padavano sisters. 
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

REVIEW: Elif Batuman’s ‘The Idiot’ is a meandering, intellectual slice-of-life

Ruby Voge September 23, 2024

The old adage instructs that we must never judge a book by its cover. Instead, we must judge it by the contents of its pages.  If we judge Elif Batuman’s 2017 bildungsroman, “The Idiot,” by its...

Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Fine tunings: crafting Amy Dunne | Mad Women

Hailey Pitcher October 24, 2023
Amy Elliott Dunne is a cool girl. She’s tall, beautiful and slender. She’s sophisticated and highly educated from a successful and wealthy family. She’s in a happy and stable marriage with her husband of five years, Nick Dunne. 
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Yes, Jo and Friedrich did get together in Greta Gerwig’s ‘Little Women’ | The Revival House

Katie Harmon March 20, 2023
While maybe Jo and Friedrich did not get together in the traditional rom-com way portrayed in the movie as potential fiction — they still did end up together in my eyes. The movie is absolutely incredible no matter how one views the ending. 
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

Truth, spared | On the Record

Addison Schmidt February 2, 2023
When celebrity memoirs are not published solely to revive the career of a faded rockstar, they do something even more audacious. They tell the truth. 
“The Song of Achilles” cover. Eden reviews author Madeline Miller’s novel, a retelling of the Greek myth of Achilles which centers on the romance between the man and his rumored lover, Patroclus. ILLUSTRATION BY CONOR KELLEY/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

‘The Song of Achilles’: LGBTQ+ literature done the right way

Eden Mor November 7, 2021
There is so much more besides their sexuality that makes this book great.
Simon Stone’s “The Dig” depicts a team of archaeologists who conduct an excavation on the property of a widow and her son in 1939. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: ‘The Dig’ is captivating, beautiful exploration of past

Connor Allen February 4, 2021
“The Dig,” the Netflix film, portrays a dynamic, true story intertwining themes of history and modern existential longing with dramatic scenes concerning life, death, love and family.
Netflix released “The Haunting of Bly Manor” on Friday as a follow-up to the 2018 series “The Haunting of Hill House.” ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ delivers quality spookiness

Molly Farrar October 15, 2020

October movie releases are of the spooky, scary variety, and “The Haunting of Bly Manor” stuck to the tradition when it debuted on Netflix Friday as a continuation of “The Haunting of Hill House.” “Hill...

Rio’s Reel: “Enola Holmes” on Power in Society

Rio’s Reel: “Enola Holmes” on Power in Society

Rio Reardon October 2, 2020
"Enola Holmes" provides not only a powerful feminist message, but a message on what it means to have power both on an individual level and in the broader context of society. That is more than applicable in the modern day.
Weike Wang, pictured above, is a BU alumna. Wang was one of the 10 writers to win the 2018 Whiting Award, which includes a $50,000 prize, on Wednesday. PHOTO COURTESY SAAVEDRA PHOTOGRAPHY/ THE WHITING FOUNDATION

GRS alumna Weike Wang recognized for novel with $50,000

Armand Manoukian March 25, 2018
Boston University alumna Weike Wang has received the 2018 Whiting Award for fiction for her 2017 novel “Chemistry.”

COM professor releases novel

Daily Free Press Admin October 4, 2012

College of Communication professor Kathryn Burak said that while she was attending graduate school at University of Massachusetts Amherst, she was inspired to write a story set in the town. After three...

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