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Table of Contents, with links to online exclusives
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Editor’s Note – Jack Martin (p.6; read at the Core blog)
Essays & Criticism
- Evaluating Educational Anxiety: Interviews with Employees of New Oriental, Inc.
by Tian Liao (p.10) - Directing Beckett
by David Green (p.17) - The Sheikh and the Bartender
by Gideon Gordon (p.24) - The Perspective of Children in Iranian Cinema
by Arezu Monshizadeh (p.29)
Honorable Mention, Essay Award - ‘The Lone Danger’: How Omar Little Western-ized The Wire
by Kathryn Lakin (p.35) - “You’re too close!”: The Personal Space Conundrum
by Birdie Gile (p.45) - British Satire in the Age of Fake News
by Samantha Vatalaro (p.51)
Honorable Mention, Essay Award - Birdwatching with Karl Marx
by Taylor Thomas (p.74)
Winner, Creativity Award - The Role of Charismatic Leadership in the Events of Jonestown in 1978
by Abby Duerkson (p.88) - Constructing the Virtual Enemy
by Charlotte Beatty (p.96)
Winner, Essay Award - Recreation
by Maria Osipovich (p.106)
Honorable Mention, Sustainability Award - The Great Turtle Is Drowning: The Effects of Climate Change on Mackinac Island
by Emily Yoder (p.108)
Winner, Sustainability Award - Detachment from Divinity: The Origins of Evil and Milton’s Fallibility in Paradise Lost
by Lauren Gotard (p.115)
Book Reviews & News
- Once Again, an Argument for Liberal Education: a review of Rescuing Socrates by Roosevelt Montás
by Nyah Patel (p.121) - Giving New Life to the Music of the Oldest Story: a review of Gilgamesh translated by Sophus Helle
by Soren Chang (p.123) - On the Tangled History of Beauty and Racism: a review of Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
by Caroline Fernandez (p.127) - A Look at History’s Most Luxurious Book of Kings: a review of The Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp
by Jamie Poirier (p.130) - Travel Writing in a Time of Limited Travel: an interview with Sunil Sharma
by Netiva Sinha (p.136) - Publication Announcements: New Publications
by Faculty & Alumni (p.140) - Core Alumni: What We’ve Been Reading
by EnCore (p.143)
Arts & Photography
- View from a Beacon Street rooftop
by Di Malkin (cover) - Photos from Yosemite
by Andre Salkin (pp.23 & 138) - Photos from NYC: Tribeca poster
by Zachary Bos (p.39) - Photos from NYC: West Broadway street art
by Zachary Bos (pp.41 & 42) - Kellyann
by Alexandra Castro Iberico (p.47) - Photo from Tahoe
by Danial Shariat (p.48) - Skateboarder
by Di Malkin (p.50) - Photos from the AMH: Flying Fish & Diving Birds
by Zachary Bos (p.56) - Photos from Cuba, 1991
by Kyna & Emily Hamill (p.60) - Photos from the AMNH: Polar Bear
by Zachary Bos (p.69) - Self-Portraits
by Colleen Rath (p.86)
Honorable Mention, Creativity Award - Shop Lights
by Di Malkin (p.94) - Photos from the AMNH: Spectrum of Life
by Zachary Bos (p.116)
Creative Writing
- A Human-Centered Genesis
by Mary Regas (p.8) - Portrait
by Eve Kleiber (p.20) - A Response to Nezami Ganjavi’s Leyli and Majnun
by Gideon Gordon (p.21) - Geology
by Danial Shariat (p.23) - Haibun: A Salted Family
by Eve Kleiber (p.34)
Honorable Mention, Creativity Award - Of Greatness and Glory
by Aidan Patt (p.40) - Lost Canto
by Allie Mascarello (p.48) - The Lighthouse
by Jakob Welch (p.56) - from The Tao of Henry
by Jennifer Formichelli (p.58)
reprinted from The Core Journal No. 20 (2011) - Downstream Boy
by Lila Heller (p.66) - An Island Lost at Sea
by Jakob Welch (p.69) - After Proteus in Joyce’s Ulysses
by Maggie Farren (p.70) - Those Who Love you
by Nobel Chan (p.71) - toast
by Sarah Goodman (p.73) - Résumé
by Zachary Bos (p.83) - Nevertheless, Each Day
by Travis Tischler (p.84) - Event Scores
by Cat Dossett (p.85)
Translations of Hafizullah Shariati Sahar:
- Colorful Nightmares, trans. by Savannah Majarwitz (p.78)
- Most of the Blackberries are Sour, trans. by Juliet Marhamati (p.79)
- Despairs of the City, trans. by Tayler Hall (p.80)
- Outskirt of the Sea, trans. by Andrea Guttormsen Wetzler (p.80)
- The Smell of Cigarettes, trans. by Tayler Hall (p.81)
Online Features
- Film: Exodus by Lauren Gotard; watch here
- Video: A Close Look at Mantegna’s “Lamentation” by Sumner Jones; watch here
- Essay: A Return to Tradition as a Remedy for Anxiety; link forthcoming
Analects of Core
Twain (p.15); Favorite Quotes (pp.38 & 95); Pessoa (p.93); Milton (pp.107 & 114); Emerson (p.120); Rilke (p.135); Campus Memories (p.145); Nachman (p.147); and Petrarch (p.152).
About Our Contributors and Staff (p.148)
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