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The Post-mistress

The Post-mistress

Priyanka Chatterjee Defining the genre of “chick lit” has always been murky territory. As it stands now, the stereotype involves a plucky young heroine who’s not as thin as she’d like... 

There’s Something About Sarah

There’s Something About Sarah

Students at Brown may differ in their opinions on structural violence, personal agency, and the heteronormative tendencies of post-Modernism, but there is a single inviolable rule that exists among the... 

A Gate at the Stairs

A Gate at the Stairs

A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore’s latest book, is a novel that encapsulates—in its plot, its aesthetics and even its reception—what it means to write fiction after September 11. Since that infamous... 

Early Breakthrough

Early Breakthrough

When Hannah Moskowitz ‘13 eats pizza at the Gate, she brings her laptop, her headphones, and the phone number of her agent, Brendan Deneen of the New York City literary agency FinePrint. When she... 

PunchDrunk is A-mazing

PunchDrunk is A-mazing

British theatre-company Punchdrunk recently brought their installation performance show Sleep No More to A.R.T in Boston. Adapted from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, this three-hour performance inhabits...