In the second installment of her “Off the Shelf” column, Corina Yi PO ’28 reviews K-Ming Chang’s short story collection “Gods of Want.” Featuring cigarette-ad models coming to life, ghost-cousins, shape-shifting daughters, various nameless widows and nine-headed birds, the collection blurs the line between realism
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Off the Shelf: Tony Tulathimutte’s short story collection satirizes modern rejection
To kick off her “Off the Shelf” column, where she reviews books with a pop culture twist, Corina Yi dives into Tony Tulathimutte’s “Rejection.” The book is a reminder of everything not to do in the face of rejection — featuring lots of bad sex, unflattering moments, insufferable characters and riffs on millennial internet culture.
Robin D.G. Kelley discusses the rhetoric of music in incarceration and abolition
On Monday, March 2, the 5C Prison Abolition Collective (5C Pris Ab) hosted the “Sounds of Abolition” talk by UCLA professor Robin D.G. Kelley at Scripps’ Balch Auditorium. The talk launched a fundraising push for the April 10 Freedom First concert, featuring Keith LaMar, a spoken word artist on Ohio’s death row after the 1993 Lucasville Prison Uprising.
Documentary filmmaker and activist Anand Patwardhan discusses religious fundamentalism and casteism in India
“Demons. Low-castes. Untouchables.” These words flashed on an illuminated projection of the short film and music video, “We Are Not Your Monkeys,” as an anthem of anti-caste resistance. On Thursday, Sept. 11, Anand Patwardhan spoke at Pomona College’s Benton Museum of Art as part of a series of events hosted
OPINION: It’s okay to like Instapoetry
From BookTok to The New York Times, commentary over InstaPoetry (mostly negative, at that) has surprised Corina Yi PO ’27.