A Letter to Insomnia
Dear Insomnia, The older I get, the more I understand you. The way you are able to exploit the intensity of my mind and its...
Bookcase Favorites: Taking Haiti
In Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940, Mary Renda explores the interplay between culture and policy through the lens of...
UB Receives $10m for James Joyce Museum
The UB Library System, which houses the world’s largest James Joyce collection, has received $10 million in New York State funding for the construction of...
To Tokyo Strangers
While many understandably hate layovers, I feel the opposite. Sitting in an airport is like existing in an alternate world where all the worries and...
On Writer’s Block
I first fell in love with writing in middle school. As a painfully anxious and shy kid, I unsurprisingly found it difficult to express myself....
Remembering the Sand Creek Massacre and the Founding of America
Following the UB Intercultural and Diversity Center’s efforts to shed light on the history of Thanksgiving, the Young Americans for Freedom, a campus student organization,...
Covid Chronicles
March 11th, 2020: three days until the long-awaited spring break. I arrived to campus feeling a little off, and not just because of the air...
Bookcase Favorites: Sofia Petrovna
In her novel Sofia Petrovna, Soviet dissident Lydia Chukovskaya offers an intimate portrait into the realities of the Soviet Union’s Great Purges of 1937 and...
Your Vote Matters
Thomas Jefferson, reflecting on a nation’s best hope for the future, once remarked that its greatest defense is an educated citizenry. Today, as the United...
Historical Perspectives: The Filibuster
In his first State of the Union address to the nation, President Biden made the case for sweeping reforms. His speech called for an array...