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.

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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.

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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.

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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.” 

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The Ultimate Valentine’s Day Book List

Cupid ‘25

The Ultimate Classic Romance: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen; Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

The Cheesy Yet Always Enthralling Enemies-to-Lovers: Book Lovers, Emily Henry; Beach Read, Emily Henry 

Non-Fiction Love Anthems: Everything I know About Love, Dolly Alderton; All About Love, Bell Hooks

Obsessive Love: My Husband, Maud Ventura; Big Swiss, Jen Beagin

Unnerving Love: The Vegetarian, Han Kang; Tender is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica; Earthlings, Sayaka Murata; Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami

I Choose Me: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde; Rouge, Mona Awad

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.

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