As AP tests, college decisions, SATs, sports and music events, and more loom ahead, our lives can feel especially rushed and stressful in this season.…
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A Movie Review: The Phantom of the Opera
By RANI SETHUPATHY on February 2026
Author’s Note: contains spoilers. A red rose; love. A white mask; fear. A beautiful voice; longing. The Phantom of the Opera is a haunting and…
Book Review: Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
By RANI SETHUPATHY on March 2024
Grief. Longing. Trauma. Home. Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’ is full of these motifs. Anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston visited Kossola, also known…
What is Water?
By RANI SETHUPATHY on March 2024
I am placid and serene A Midsummer Night’s Dream, an oasis in the desert of your mind. I am quiet and secure modest and demure…