Chloe Reads: Scott Guild’s “Plastic”
“Plastic” spotlights Erin, “a plastic girl living in a plastic world” navigating everyday life in an eerily near-apocalyptic future. After the deaths of her father and lover, Erin uses virtual reality to escape from her pain. When she meets cynical-yet-sweet Jacob after an attack on her workplace, she faces the challenge of revealing the truth of her past to him as their relationship grows.
Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo Gives Readers More Of What They Love. And Also Chess.
The latest novel by Irish bestselling author Sally Rooney, “Intermezzo,” has been atop the list of peoples most anticipated book of the year. Now, the time has nearly arrived. Kat Rutschilling ‘25 provides an early access look into the novel alongside her personal review.
Life’s an Oregon Trail
On Friday, Apr. 13, student theatre group Blackdog Productions’ rendition of Trail to Oregon opened in the Black Squirrel.
The Recital Comes to Sarah Lawrence: Celebrating Student Songwriters
On Apr. 6, a community of Sarah Lawrence students came together to spotlight the college’s singer-songwriters. With the help of the residents of Slonim Woods 3 and a Syracuse student duo called The Recital, four sets of student performers were given the opportunity to perform an intimate acoustic concert that evening.
April Horoscopes
April is, in true Aries fashion, going to bring bright and bold sparks to the forefront this month. We’re starting off with a bang as Mercury enters retrograde on the 1st. This is a time for us all to check in with how we communicate, whether that means finally having those deep conversations or finally updating your phone. Mercury will be retrograde until the 24th.
Why Your Plants Keep Dying: Best Plants for Dorms and How To Keep Them Alive
So listen up and let me tell you my best tips for keeping my plants alive and what I think are the best plants to keep in a college dorm room.
Album of the Month Review: Cartwheel – Hotline TNT
Hotline TNT’s sophomore effort Cartwheel is a triumphant statement of durability for the new wave of American shoegaze.
Who is Sarah Lawrence Wearing
It’s what's judged at every award show. It’s the first question a celebrity is asked the moment they step onto the crimson carpet. It’s a statement. It’s an identity. It’s whatever you want it to be because it’s fashion!
The Revival of The Blue Room
Sunday, Feb 18 brought the long-awaited revival of the Blue Room. The once-beloved music space in Bates’ basement was full of anticipation as students crowded in and stage crew members fine-tuned the set up. Sarah Lawrence Music Festival hosted four student bands: Venus Envy, Bone Museum, Miller Lite and NEJ.
Book Review: Sugar, ‘Baby by Celine Saintclare
Celine Saintclare’s debut novel, Sugar, ‘Baby follows a young mixed-race woman, Agnes, who feels trapped in her immigrant mother’s home in a small English town the residents dubbed “The Wasteland.”
Into the Post-Privacy Digital Age: A Look at Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley
Following the story of the acclaimed whistleblower, Reality Winner, Howley’s book descends into a rabbit hole of government agencies' secret and potentially unauthorized networks.
A Review of Spring Awakening
Sarah Lawrence students, in knee-high socks with rockstar voices, took to the stage in this semester’s mainstage musical “Spring Awakening", directed by Lauren Reinhard. The production opened on Thursday, Feb. 29, and took the campus by storm.
Book Review: More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
Molly Roden Winter’s debut memoir, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage enthralls and bewilders the reader with a tale of a domestic, hetero-normative couple exploring their boundaries and their desires by experimenting with and embracing polyamory
Who's Sarah Lawrence Wearing?
Third-year student and costume designer, Brie DiCenzo '25 is a soon-to-be fresh face in the fashion industry. DiCenzo moved to New York from Los Angeles, California, with dreams of becoming an actor. “It’s kind of a funny and long story. I’ve always been really into clothing and style throughout middle and high school. I never really went for it because I was acting then.”
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: 14 Romcoms for Everyone
Whether you are hatefully single, confidently independent, or happily or dreadfully in love, here are some of my top picks from a (self-proclaimed) romcom expert for whatever state you might be in this V-Day. Or D-Day. Your pick.
Book Review: Death Valley by Melissa Broder
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.
Femme Top Salad
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.
Washed and Found: A Musical Journey at Brother’s Wash and Dry
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.
Whirlybird’s “Dove is a Pigeon”
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.