Bookcase Favorites: Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Madeleine Thien’s Do Not Say We Have Nothing is a stunning work of historical fiction that brings to life twentieth century China in heartfelt, thought-provoking,...
A Letter to Insomnia
Dear Insomnia, The older I get, the more I understand you. The way you exploit the intensity of my mind and its proclivity for heaviness...
Bookcase Favorites: Taking Haiti
Mary Renda’s Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 examines American empire and the relationship between its center and peripheries. Using a rich...
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 found it difficult to express myself. Writing...
Remembering the Sand Creek Massacre and the Making 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: A Look Back on March 2020
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...
A Plea to Vote
In the face of critical threats to our democracy and future, the choices we make now will be consequential. We can not let disillusionment with...