Terrance Hayes' vivid poetry collection American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin was written in the first 200 days of Trump's presidency. All the poems have the same title: "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin." Those two details accurately explain the cohesiveness of the collection, written in a tone best described as bold and...

I first decided to read Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason on almost a complete whim. I had heard that Foucault was an influential author and had some interesting ideas. I also wanted to get back into reading again, so I decided to try out something new for a change...

When I originally got Jefferson by Jean-Claude Mourlevant I expected a light-hearted fictional story about comical animals, especially since the book was illustrated. Instead, I stumbled upon the thought-provoking and slightly dark story of a fugitive-from-law, a hedgehog named Jefferson-Ponsoby Smith. The story takes place in a world split into...

As a Hunter student with a busy schedule, I tend to cherish every moment of freedom I get, but Werther, the titular character of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, happens to disagree: "Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with...

Massive trees line the banks of the river and darkness obscures the distant horizon. There are no signs of civilization save a small steamboat slowly moving down the river and into the darkness. A sense of stagnation, barbarity, and wilderness lingers in the air. This is the grim world in which Joseph Conrad places his readers in his novella Heart...

"Every time she crossed Broadway (always during the day, of course) she'd look down the wide street toward the Bay Bridge in the distance, her graze lingering on those closed doorways, wondering what they hid from view."

Leelee Baden-Glicksman, 9th Grade