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Use summer as time to grow

Madelyn Schorr June 3, 2015

I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with summer. I love that for three months of the year my life doesn’t revolve around school, but I hate not seeing my friends every day. I love watching endless...

Poetry book focused on Kanye West's humanity

Poetry book focused on Kanye West's humanity

Tori Linville April 21, 2015

When Kanye West is mentioned, people know where they stand. Love him or hate him, West is a force to be reckoned with. As someone who was never swayed to love or hate the man who stole Taylor Swift’s...

'The System' offers readers behind-the-scenes look at college football

'The System' offers readers behind-the-scenes look at college football

Tori Linville April 8, 2015

Most think winning a national championship is the highest priority in American college football. It isn’t.At least not according to “The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football.”...

Best places to buy books in Tuscaloosa

Best places to buy books in Tuscaloosa

Tori Linville March 24, 2015

Though a book can easily be borrowed from University libraries, buying a book brings a reader more freedom. After a book purchase, there’s no guilt about folding page corners or writing in margins. Borrowing...

Lang Leav's second installment spellbinds reader

Lang Leav's second installment spellbinds reader

Tori Linville March 9, 2015

The second installment of Lang Leav’s writing, “Lullabies,” is desired to “sing to your present,” “echo of your past” and “whisper of your future.”Leav prefaces the poems with an introduction...

Krakauer return to non-fiction scene with 'Missoula'

Krakauer return to non-fiction scene with 'Missoula'

Reed OMara February 18, 2015

It’s been 12 years since Jon Krakauer graced his readers with a new book, and with an Instagram handle called 
@KrakauerNotWriting, readers expected the mountain-climbing nonfiction writer to be done...

Don't fear literature class workload

Reed OMara November 9, 2014

Literature courses: Whether required for your major or for an elective, you’re likely to run into one, and if you are a procrastinator, you’re likely to hate one – even if you like reading. The first...

'Princess of Mars' introduces John Carter in pulp-fiction series

‘Princess of Mars’ introduces John Carter in pulp-fiction series

Isabela Morales March 20, 2012

Literally just minutes ago (as of this writing) I finished Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1912 novel "A Princess of Mars," and I'm fairly convinced that it's the best worst early-20th-century science fiction novel...