Free Malaysia Today / CC BY 4.0 South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
COURTESY OF MOLLY GREEN Green reflects on the friendships she’s forged over the years while watching her roommate slice a peach.
COURTESY OF KAITLIN TAN Tan shares her dilemmas about writing and attempts to make peace with their existence.
COURTESY OF KAYLEE NGUYEN Nguyen tells the story of how she found the balance between imagery and purpose in her writing.
COURTESY OF HAILEY FINKELSTEIN Finkelstein highlights the toxic struggle culture at Hopkins and points out that depriving yourself of your basic needs to succeed shouldn’t be normalized.
RUI DO ROSARIO / DESIGN & LAYOUT EDITOR If you’re staying in Baltimore this Fall Break, enjoy several fall festivities and the Baltimore Running Festival.
COURTESY OF JINHO MYUNG Softshell (2024), an arthouse dramedy by writer-director Jinho Myung, follows two siblings as they navigate early adulthood. It premiered on Oct. 6, 2024 at the New/Next Film Festival, presented by Baltimore Public Media.
COOPER HEWITT SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM / PUBLIC DOMAIN If a scrapbook transcending temporal and spatial boundaries was condensed into an album, it would be Kate Bollinger’s new album Songs From a Thousand Frames of Mind.
NINE STARS / CC BY 3.0 Day6 from left to right: pianist Wonpil, guitarist Sungjin, drummer Dowoon and rapper-vocalist Young K .
STEVEN SIMPSON / PHOTO EDITOR The 112th SGA welcomes freshman senators and discussed a proposal to administration addressing campus construction disruptions.
JIYUN GUO / Design & Layout Editor This week’s picks from the Arts & Entertainment section include a few horror movies, a memoir by Al Pacino and an arts walk in Hampden. Please enjoy our media picks for the upcoming week.
C.K. KOAY / CC BY-NC 2.0 Last week, the Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were announced.
COURTESY OF RILEY STRAIT Strait composes an ode for his second-hand car and commemorates their history together.
COURTESY OF EESHA BELLAD Trejo spoke about how local journalists are the primary victims of assassinations in Mexico.
COURTESY OF JOSH LONSTEIN On Oct. 8, the SNF Agora Institute in collaboration with HopMUN hosted “How to Lose a Democracy”, a panel discussion with experts that highlighted case studies of the state of democracy across the world.
COURTESY OF ANNA NIKISHINA Nikishina explores the privilege of worrying about physical insecurities and recognizes that women of previous generations had more serious troubles.
RUI DO ROSARIO / DESIGN & LAYOUT EDITOR The results of a survey on student responses to the MSE closure by The News-Letter showed general student dissatisfaction.
COURTESY OF YASMINA METTEWA The Hopkins Lecture Series, formed from the merger of the Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium and the Foreign Affairs Symposium, organizes speaker events on the Homewood Campus.
COURTESY OF YUYU HUANG Huang explores three ethnic restaurants in Baltimore, where flavorful cuisine provides a glimpse into the city’s multicultural heart.
