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Book Review: The Secret Life of Bees

Book Review: The Secret Life of Bees

Caroline Ferguson, Staff Writer January 7, 2021

The Secret Life of Bees is a novel written by award-winning author Sue Monk Kidd. Lily Owens, a young white girl living in the South in 1964, is the main character of the book. She was raised by her abusive...

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IQ84 Review

Noel Wang, Co-Executive Editor January 5, 2021

Even if you’ve never heard of Haruki Murakami, he’s definitely a name to remember. The Japanese author has won critical acclaim (for example, he was almost in the running for the 2020 Nobel Prize in...

Book Review for The Awakening

Book Review for The Awakening

Hayley Vevey October 19, 2020

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, can be recognized as one of the first and exceptional feminist works from the 19th Century. The story focuses on the beautiful Edna Pontellier, a wife and mother who...

Podcast Review: Nice White Parents

Noel Wang, Co-Executive Editor October 11, 2020

  Nice White Parents is the perfect title for this fascinating investigation into America’s public education system. Told over five hour-long episodes (but I swear, the series truly felt...

Book Review: Little Fires Everywhere

Book Review: Little Fires Everywhere

Edie Weinstein and Noel Wang October 24, 2019

When Celeste Ng’s novel, Little Fires Everywhere, released in 2017, some might comment that it set the fiction world ablaze. The iconically minimalist, turquoise cover became a familiar sight at everyone’s...

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Inside the Coffee Shop with the Creators of Bean There Done That

Sadie Grunau, Staff Writer May 14, 2019

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with two of Visitation’s very own juniors, Wini Bettenburg and Ellie McConville to discuss the art of coffee. In December 2018, Wini and Ellie created a VSCO...

A Rhino, a Bison, or a Peacock: The Lobster Movie Review

A Rhino, a Bison, or a Peacock: The Lobster Movie Review

Hannah Norman, Staff Writer May 14, 2019

Seven years ago, before I became a self-proclaimed movie snob, I was stuck in a genre: the superhero genre. Well, in truth, “stuck” is not the phrase I would use to describe my previous situation;...

"On the Come Up" Book Review

“On the Come Up” Book Review

Noel Wang, Freelance Editor April 21, 2019

Back with her second novel after The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas hits the ground running with On the Come Up, a funny, hopeful, and deeply impactful story of a young rapper fighting through poverty,...

Book Review: A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles

Book Review: A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles

Noel Wang, Freelance Editor November 28, 2018

  Amor Towles’ novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, opens with a map drawing of Moscow, Russia, in the year 1922. An inset map focuses on the Theatre Square, a small area encompassing a few city...

The Hate U Give Book Review

The Hate U Give Book Review

Sadie Richardson, Executive Editor October 11, 2018

In America, race is an endlessly controversial subject, but literature is able to offer another perspective besides our own. One such novel, Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give, became a major motion picture...

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