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Editor’s Note – Vanessa Hanger (p.8; or read at the Core blog)
Essays & Criticism
- Nietzsche’s Textual Panopticon
by Daniel Cardosi (p.12) - A Discussion of Ritual
by Kei Kwan Queena Lau (p.22) - Militarization and Predatory Recruiting in Gaming Spaces During COVID-19
by Carolyn Zou (p.26) - Austen’s Letter-Writing & Self-Authorship
by Marina Berardino (p.46) - How to Become—or Remain—An Ideal Person
by Jonas Raedler (p.59) - A review of Together in a Sudden Strangeness
by Maggie Farren (p.72) - Notes on an Ending
by Sabine Ollivier-Yamin (p.78) - Persian Romance Through a Sufi Lens
by Arezu Monshizadeh (p.82) - Grief and Violence as Disfiguration
by Vivian Dai (p.90) - Grief and the Great Books
by Nyah Patel (p.102) - Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by Sigourney Schultz (p.126)
Creative Writing
- In Bloom
by Cory Willingham (p.16; listen here) - At Night, in the Backland
by Carlos Eduardo Santos Torres (p.17; listen here) - When the Bough Breaks
by Alexandra Mascarello (p.21) - A Distanced Love
by Eva Ragonese (p.25; listen here) - Reading
by Cat Dossett (p.32) - A Letter To My Brother
by Jenna Riedl (p.42; listen here) - Wasting
by Maggie Farren (p.45; listen here) - Corona Verse/ Spare a Drink
by Greye Dunn (p.58; listen here) - Inconsequentially
by Roberto Cordova (p.63) - Hollow Grounds
by Bella T. Fong (p.64) - A Pandemic Year in Texts
by Monica Courtney (p.69; listen here) - Looking Back
by Samantha Vatalaro (p.75) - The Burning Stacks
by Zachary Bos (p.76; listen here) - Two Poems
by Andrew Kelbley (p.80) - Two Weeks
by Zoë Figueroa (p.94; listen here) - Anaphora
by Ryan Ives (p.101) - Polyphemus’ Lament
by Brian Ko (p.106) - Spring in Griggs Park
by Sassan Tabatabai (p.112; listen here) - If Eden Were a Woman
by Junia Genevieve Janvier (p.119; listen here) - Just Go
by Veronica Booth (p.157; listen here)
Features & Multimodal
- Art in an Age of Anxiety
by Isabel Plower, Ziwen Xie, Tammy Dong and Avi Nguyen (p.37) - Making a Musical During Lockdown
by Isabella Very (p.43; view online) - Video: Balloons
by Noelle No (p.105; view online) - A Conversation with Gregory Kerr
by Bruce Hallgren and Nyah Patel (p.114; read the full version) - Experiences Abroad During COVID
compiled by Marco Rotella w/Zachary Bos (p.145) - Learning During the New Normal
by Miho Namba (p.140) - Video: Dido
by Seynedhee Avenie (online exclusive)
Reports & Briefings
- SARS-CoV-2: Symptoms and Selection
by Jack Norton (p.66) - The Costs of Single-Use Plastics in Healthcare
by Jennifer Motzer (p.95) - A Letter to Envoy Kerry re: Climate Change
by Riya Beri (p.108) - Ethnographic Insight into the Lives of Chinese International Students During COVID
by Tian Liao (p.138)
Arts & Photography
- Normal People
by Onosereme Ofoman (cover) - Song: Going to the Virtual Show
by Brian Jorgensen (p.10; listen as part of a reading of the Menaechmi) - Spring, Beacon Street
by Elisabeth Graves (p.15) - Faces
by Alexandra Mascarello (p.20) - Spring, Back Bay
by Elisabeth Graves (p.24) - Comic: A Legacy
by Isabel Mejia (p.33) - Travels in China and Tibet
by David Green (p.52) - Reflection
by Alexandra Castro Iberico (p.64) - Graduating Seniors
by Laura Meyer (p.69) - Scan Artifacts
by Zachary Bos (p.76) - Playlist for Enlightenment & Romantic Revolt
by Kyna Hamill (p.87; listen on Spotify) - Coronatoon Diary
by Susan Foster (p.88) - What Is That Covid? Blues
by Brian Jorgensen (p.89) - Drifting Away
by Jaden Duenas (p.90) - Sonata: Thusia
by Kaitlyn DeSouza (p.98; listen here) - Summer, Public Garden
by Andrew Huynh (p.113) - Comic: A New Man in Town
by Sneha Korlakunta (p.121) - An Imagined Zoom
by Alexandra Mascarello (p.137) - Roommate Packing
by Kehan Yin (p.143) - Street Scenes in Bologna, Italy
by Chloe Hite (p.146) - Return to Chinatown
by Andrew Huynh (p.149) - In Limbo
by Gwen Liu (p.166)
Analects of Core
Marx trans. Fernbach (p.2); Daodejing trans. Ivanhoe (p.14); Aristotle trans. Ostwald (p.15); Confucius trans. Watson (p.24); Genesis trans. Alter (p.62); Rousseau trans. Cress (p.68); Plato trans. Reeve (p.74); Declaration of the Rights of Man & Citizen (p.79); Dickinson (p.87); Sempé (p.88); Tennyson (p.102); Freud trans. Strachey (p.136); Du Bois (p.137); Daodejing trans. Le Guin (p.166); Dante trans. Mandelbaum (p.167); and Ibn Khaldûn trans. Rosenthal (p.168).
About Our Contributors and Staff (p.158)
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