“A man who is in a room with a cat - whatever else we might say about that man - is not alone. ” Tim Kreider
Arts January 2018
FEATURES
A Book About Eruption 42
Anatomy of a Broken System On Title IX at Swarthmore by Isabel Cristo
BOOKS
PHOTO ESSAYS
A Night on the Town
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“Her Body and Other Parties” 44
by Samira Saunders
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The Life of Yik Yak Students remember the app in its heydey by Gabriel Meyer-Lee
On Machado’s artful new story collection by Emma Haviland-Blunk
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photo essay by Evie Lutz
Seeing ghosts in “Trick” by Leo Elliot
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MUSIC The New New Atlanta 45 The city’s most exciting upcoming artists by Azikiwea Green and Julian Turner
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“FM-2030” 46
PERSONAL ESSAYS The Walk 20 by Samantha Herron
FICTION & POETRY Confidential 35 by Heidi Kalloo
Against Introspection 22 by Willa Glickman
The Vertigo of the Modern Woman 24 by Jade Dong
Jumbled Thoughts of a Sunflower Kid 25 by Hope-Elizabeth Darris
Cyborg / Silence Song 38 by Colette Gerstmann
bitter 39 by Ariana Soriano
mobius love 40 by Abhinav Tiku
Reptaliens makes you doubt your selfhood by Vanessa Levy
MOVIES Failures in Magical Realism 48 Why The Shape of Water sucked by Ilana Epstein and Ariana Hoshino
“The Death of Mr. Lazarescu” 50 Nostalgia and nationalism in Puiu’s film by Daria Mateescu
First Matcha 41 by Andrew Kim
SWARTHMORE REVIEW
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