In All That is Foreign, Claire Chen explores the idea of family inheritances -- the cultural ideas and traditions inherited from previous generations -- and examines the impact of family background on identity.
In her capstone All In Good Time, Aria Desai explores memory and time, highlighting how the ability to remember history, both its concrete events, as well as its spirit, influences the modern social and political worlds.
In Raindrops Racing on a Fogged-Up Window, Tong Liu uses the experience of looking through a car window on a rainy day to frame a collection of short stories, poems, and vignettes about growing up.
In America’s Peacock, Maansi Misra addresses the hidden influence of Indian culture and gender on her true and imagined daily experiences.
In Telling it Slant, Cecilia (Cici) Reott explores the power of voice while experimenting with perception and perspective.
In Or Every Man Be Blind, titled after the final line of Emily Dickinson’s poem “Tell all the truth but tell it slant,” Sukhroop Singh addresses the unreliable ways we reflect on and narrate our lives.