Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast defied 19th century gender expectations.
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In Jeannette Haien’s novel The All of It (1986), love cures all.
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Reading Matsuo Bashō's Japanese prose-poetry from 1689, while contemplating stillness, isolation, journeying, and the aftermath of death.
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A poetic ode to the golden beauty and heavenly touch of Gustav Klimt's famed 1908 painting.
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A college freshman finds a curly-haired, sexually liberated role model in Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw.
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One writer finds solace in Sedaris's Me Talk Pretty One Day as she considers life after graduation.
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A poetic exploration of Frida Kahlo's Two Nudes in the Forest in relation to the artist's sexuality.
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One writer ponders the unique and confusing way that art captures motion.
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With winter approaching, one writer revisits the music and warm nostalgia of her past.
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Though used to considering crime dramas mere background noise, one writer becomes captivated by The Five through its music.
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After his grandfather's death, our writer delves into Mary Frye’s poem “Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep.”
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Upon re-discovering the CD in her car, one listener looks back at the vastness of Bon Iver, Bon Iver.
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The Wesleyan community collectively responds to The MASH Music Festival.
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Our Co-founder, Sage Marshall, elaborates on the importance of live response in advance of the MASH Music Festival.
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The experience of the protagonist in The Sheltering Sky (1949) is both relational to and refuge from a student's own illness.
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A meditation on the casualties of time and the motions of motherhood through Nicholas Nixon's photographic series The Brown Sisters.
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In Goodbye First Love (2011), a young couple’s idealized version of love dissolves.
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A moving tribute to Denis Johnson's (1949-2017) prose through one reader's changing perceptions of his work.
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Linne Halpern reflects on Joan Didian and her first summer alone in NYC.
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Maddie Woda ponders Heathers: The Musical and her high school experience.
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