Katie Brown
Oct 1, 20243 min read
Bethel Creatives, no. 16: Katie Bracey
Interview conducted by Katie Brown in the The Crossings’s series on creativity and diversity within Bethel University’s student body. The...
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Katie Brown
Nov 9, 20243 min read
The Diary of Anne Frank Stage Review
I went to the opening night of this marvelous production on Friday October 25, 2024. The stage was set to be like the Annex above where...
Ella Meyer
Mar 19, 20245 min read
Richard III Stage Review
Placing Richard III on the stage in front of me at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (CST) created a personal experience with Shakespeare...
Ella Meyer
Feb 10, 20244 min read
24-Hour Stage Review
What kind of theatrical productions can come from the opening statement, “You can’t keep avoiding the issue?” How many ways can a...
Elijah Bansen
Dec 7, 20234 min read
Book Review: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Science Fiction as a genre has been seemingly railroaded as of late in the pop culture periphery into a very specific set of categories....
Elijah Bansen
Sep 5, 20233 min read
Book Review: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
There has been for a long time—at least amongst the circles which I frequent in the real world and online—a debate as to what we can...
Madison Carter
Nov 18, 20223 min read
Book Review: Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Libertie, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill on March 15, 2021, is a fictional novel about a young girl by the name of Libertie,...
Noah Lee
Nov 4, 20225 min read
Book Review: She Who Became the Sun
Monstrous but compelling characters; a lovingly-crafted and hellish political (and geographical) landscape; a narrative that rings with a...
Samantha Hirschy
Oct 14, 20224 min read
Book Review: Jeraline’s Alley by Becca Smith
Often, fear drives us to act; whether that action is good or bad is up for debate, but it is up to us to decide how to react to it. Becca...
Adam Foster
Oct 14, 20225 min read
Book Review: The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
It was the meta nature of writing this review that first sparked my inspiration. A book review on a book that is a collection of reviews...
Brianna R. Densmore
Sep 17, 20225 min read
Book Review: Romonov by Nadine Brandes
This is not a story that drives readers to perfection, as is so common in the world of Christian fiction.
Alayna Wort
May 8, 20204 min read
Right or Easy
In Nadine Gordimer’s book, “A Burger’s Daughter” the reader follows the story of a girl growing up in apartheid South Africa, discovering...
Lynn Ford
Apr 16, 20203 min read
Book Review: Normal People by Sally Rooney
There is a point in one’s life — that can last a day or even years — in which one questions life and its purpose. The transition from...
Elaina Abbott
Apr 13, 20204 min read
Book Review: Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo
Beverly, just fourteen years old, runs away from her home because there is nothing left for her there. Her mom is an alcoholic, and her...
Gabrielle Swartzentruber
Apr 10, 20205 min read
Book Review: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Light often symbolizes purity, innocence, truth, and is one of the most common natural phenomena in the universe. But what happens when...
Madison Dykes
Apr 6, 20203 min read
Book Review: How to Make Friends with the Dark by Kathleen Glasgow
Grief is a simultaneously universal and elusive feeling, weaving in and out of people’s lives like an aimless, wandering child—seemingly...
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