Barnes and Noble recognized Georgetown University English adjunct lecturer Ariel Djanikian’s new historical fiction novel about a family inheritance during the Klondike Gold Rush as its Book Club pick...
When Dolores del Río stepped into the camera frame, her eyes were impossible to look away from. Her cheekbones were perfectly angled toward the light, creating romance and intrigue with well-practiced...
“Call Me by Your Name” is a 2007 novel by André Aciman that serves as an intimate portrayal of first love, sexual awakening and coming-of-age. Set in Italy in the summer of 1983, the story follows...
HarperCollins is set to publish Georgetown senior Rebecca Kuang’s (SFS ’18) speculative historical fiction novel “The Poppy War” in May 2018, followed by two sequels. Set in a mythical land inspired...
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“I know I’m not an ordinary kid,” Auggie says in a voiceover during the film’s opening scene. “I mean, I’m doing the right things. I just don’t look ordinary when I’m...
A dystopian novel about a future that seems frighteningly within reach, Dave Eggers’s “The Circle” focuses on the pervasiveness of modern technology and its potential to overtake the fundamental...
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the Vél D’Hiv, the heartbreaking mass roundup and arrest of Jewish citizens in France as part of the Holocaust. On Nazi orders carried out by French soldiers, French...
Coming of age is a term synonymous with J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield embodies that angsty sense of disillusionment that we all encounter at the ripe old age of 16 and that...
