“I always say, the film is the thing. The film is the thing. You work so hard to get this thing built, all the elements to feel correct, the whole to feel correct, in this beautiful...

With the 67th annual Grammy Awards ceremony coming up this Sunday, WSN’s Arts Desk took a poll of the newsroom in anticipation of music’s biggest night. Whether you had a “brat...

In this classroom, only English is spoken. The teacher, Marjan (Marjan Neshat), enforces this rule harshly — if you speak any other language, you get a tally mark. At five tallies,...

In trying times, political films are nothing new. One of cinema’s most essential functions is to inform its audience — to share the intricacies of another culture, another...

Warning: This review contains spoilers. You can’t — and shouldn’t — get advice about college through TV shows, but that didn’t stop my 17-year-old self from obsessively...

One of my guilty pleasures is walking through a bookstore, browsing the stacks for hours and leaving with a new book. But when the average price of a paperback book is almost 20...

“Foster” by Claire Keegan “And that is when he puts his arms around me and gathers me into them as though I were his own.” “Foster,” a short little book by...

The light at the end of a grueling, dark fall semester is a winter break free from academic responsibilities — and there’s no better replacement for lecture halls than a good...

Greenwich Village, 1961. Fade in on the bohemian straggler with a cigarette in one hand and a guitar case in the other. Although born Robert Zimmerman in humble Minnesota, the...

Hayden Anhedönia, professionally known as Ethel Cain, is tired of being famous. She took to Tumblr with a scathing critique, sharing how glib comment sections and the increasingly...

As we settle into the beginning of a new semester in this freezing cold weather, it’s important that we take the time to practice self-care. While the beginning of the semester...

As the year comes to a close, the WSN staff is reflecting on the best books we read in 2024. From old classics to new releases to academic texts, we all read a lot. Alexa Donovan,...