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RILEY STRAIT

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Arts & Entertainment editor Strait understands Adichie’s latest novel Dream Count as a valuable lesson for everyone on how to support victims.

Dream Count is an exercise in how to return dignity

By RILEY STRAIT | 12 hours ago

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Strait reflects on how childlike innocence and spirit can persist in a long train ride.

Jack Harlow presents a story with an unsatisfying end on childlike innocence

By RILEY STRAIT | April 12, 2025

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Strait reflects on Dream State, a novel by Hopkins Professor Eric Puchner.

Dream State is a novel that leaves you with one question

By RILEY STRAIT | March 12, 2025

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Strait describes the decision to spend a Friday night at an entertainment park.

Pretend, pretend against the dying of the light!

By RILEY STRAIT | March 1, 2025

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Drew Hancock’s Companion has been criticized for its trailer, which ostensibly spoils its main premise.

Companion tells us we're all living in a horror movie, even if it doesn't scare us

By RILEY STRAIT | February 25, 2025

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Miss Prism (Liesel Arauz Vallecillo; left) reunites with Jack (Jackson Robien; center) as his friend Algernon (Ryan Garza; right) struggles with the ridiculous turn of events.

The Barnstormers perform The Importance of Being Earnest

By RILEY STRAIT | February 19, 2025

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Strait tells the story of his first part-time job at a pretzel shop.

Do I have to get a "real job"?

By RILEY STRAIT | January 29, 2025

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Strait claims that Samantha Harvey's 2023 novel Orbital, newly awarded the Booker Prize this past month, is syntactically brilliant but thematically dull.

Cotton candy and the beautiful non-beauty: Samantha Harvey’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Orbital

By RILEY STRAIT | December 10, 2024

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The point of A24’s new film Heretic is not to question what religion is but to question how people interact with religion — specifically, the fine line between burning bridges and finding community.

Heretic is an answerless, equal-attention movie that you can’t bring yourself to hate

By RILEY STRAIT | December 6, 2024

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“Country Y-er” F (Finnigan Keane) vies for the attention of B (Qiushi (Chris) Tian).

Johns Hopkins Theatre's performance of Passage raises questions of anti-intellectualism

By RILEY STRAIT | November 23, 2024

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