FALL 2021

Rolling Stone
BY SUNNY JEONG-EIMER

December 8, 1980. The Dakota, New York City. Five shots: four hit, one misses—nonetheless, the four suffice to leave fatal wounds in the back of Yoko Ono’s then-husband John Lennon. Rewind twelve hours and you would find John’s back shot again, only this time instead of bullets, every shot is fired in the form of a camera shutter.

Organ Failure
BY SUNNY JEONG-EIMER

Like most kids, I was never a big fan of bugs. I still can’t articulate exactly why insect bodies repulse me. Maybe my fear originates from the time I spent visiting my mother’s family in Korea the summer before I entered second grade. A summer of tongue-tied Konglish stuttered out in ebbing back-and-sometimes-forth conversational flow.

Oyler and the Emperor
BY BECKY ZHANG

​“I know astrology is fake [...] who cares? It’s real enough to influence how real people think.” So says the unnamed narrator of Fake Accounts, Lauren Oyler’s debut novel about a very online woman in the era of Donald Trump’s inauguration. Like the narrator, book critic Oyler offers the following theory on contemporary reality: life outside the internet is no more “real” than that within. Likewise, life can be just as fake offline. 

Mannequins
BY SAM HERNANDEZ

Clothing is not designed for humans. Too imperfect, with unsightly lumps and misplaced curves, such variable humans can never provide the guarantee that fashion requires to execute its vision. As commodities, clothing sells itself not as utility but as signification: one buys clothing not because it functions as a superior shirt but because one believes that the shirt is a sign for something like their aesthetic taste, status, or wealth.

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SPRING 2020

Yi Yi: Retrospective Truths
​BY ALAN KE

To my knowledge, most kids don’t spend their seventh birthdays 35,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean. If it were up to me, I’d have chosen to celebrate somewhere like Chuck E. Cheese’s, anywhere other than the 13-hour purgatory of EWR to PEK. On a whim, we packed our bags as a family, swapping the comfort of a small suburban town in New Jersey for the monolithic metropolis of Beijing....

The Handmaid's Tale: Perpetuating Racial Ignorance and Exclusive Feminism in America
BY JACINDA LEE

It is apparent that even under the guise of empowering women, exploring sexuality, and mobilizing resistance, the audience is still trapped under the blanket of white supremacy. The novel's post-racial aesthetic precludes it from confronting this conversation and justifies inaction in addressing the intersectionality beneath its narrative.​..