Melissa Broder, author of The Pisces and Milk-Fed, wants us to inhabit and embrace a world where delusion and reality intermingle and become indiscernible in her new novel, Death Valley. The voice Broder constructs in the protagonist is one that is typical of her other novels: relatable, funny and depressingly real and human in ways that most of us try to shield from an audience of any kind.

This salad is like riding someone’s face and making them beg for permission to cum. I think salad is a perfect image

for the unequal distribution of power in a relationship. I will not elaborate on this. I’m starving. Let’s begin.

It is a November night on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, and I am walking into Brothers Wash and Dry, the “laundromat” with no laundry. Instead, this DIY institution, built from the shell of a long since defunct laundromat, serves as a combination artist space, production studio, some guy’s apartment and occasional music venue.

Avery Milner— a.k.a Whirlybird— has been writing songs since before he could play them. Fifteen years later, Avery has taught himself how to play guitar and found his groove in the musical scenes of Sarah Lawrence and Brooklyn. They recently released their first record “Dove is a Pigeon'' with eight original songs.

Recently, I was lucky enough to sit in on a rehearsal of the Musical Theater Ensemble’s upcoming production of 9-5, a student-led musical comedy with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton. 9 to 5 runs this weekend Dec. 1-3rd.

Jason Blum, CEO of Blumhouse Pictures and co-producer of Five Nights at Freddy's, tweeted a screenshot circling the film's 89% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes with the caption, "Thank you FNAF fans. You guys are passionate and great." What he ignored was the 24% critic score right beside it.

Edan Raen is a second-year and music third from Houston, Texas. It is no secret that she has quite a heavy hand on the music scene here at Sarah Lawrence College.

It has been a while now, but you probably remember the proliferation of alien memes in mid-September, due to the hearing where several ‘alien mummies’ were presented in front of the Mexican Congress. 

In the Kitchen, collected and published by Daunt Books, is a collection of thirteen essays from thirteen authors that embolden the shared hub of culture and community across borders and disparities: the kitchen. Yet it ultimately fails at providing a unique perspective on the kitchen’s role outside of its function.

On Sept. 7, Silverlens Gallery launched “Remains of Surface”, a retrospective exhibition featuring 12 artworks by Carlos Villa and Leo Valledor.

Fuck. This soup is cunt. It’s the cunt soup. I would rather kill myself than never be able to have this soup  again. 70% of the people  I’ve slept with have ate and enjoyed this soup.

On October 7th, 2023 at the Black Squirrel, The Phoenix hosted a launch event to celebrate the beginning of the semester and pass out our first print edition since 2017, titled Issue 01: Rising from the Ashes.

An exhibition of works by Elizabeth Bonaventura opened in the Heimbold gallery at Sarah Lawrence on Sept. 7 and will be on view until Oct. 22. The curation of the Gallery leads the viewer on a journey through Bonaventura's career and experience with a rare form of dementia known as frontotemporal dementia.

Hang Up is a Queer reality dating show podcast from Radiotopia, with “no rings attached.” Created and produced by Caitlin Pierce, the show aims for more realistic stakes than its television counterparts.

I sat down to chat with James Takateru ‘26 –an Orange Cap Studios artist and full-time student– to talk about their process, balancing a music career and student life, and some exciting new releases.

Don’t Worry Darling, the sophomore film by director Olivia Wilde, opened in theaters on September 23rd after what can only be regarded as a nightmare for the PR team in the weeks leading up to its release.

I donned my A24 half-zip and watched Fight Club for the fifth time in order to make this list. With March 27th just around the corner, please take these predictions with two grains of salt and tear all the red carpet looks to shreds