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The Rutgers Review The Rutgers Review is an Arts & Culture magazine at Rutgers New Brunswick. The Rutgers Review is an arts & culture magazine.

Founded in 1982 as a weekly newspaper for Rutgers College, The Rutgers Review is committed to providing the Rutgers and New Brunswick communities with a bi-semesterly arts and opinions magazine, featuring news (both fictional and factual) and opinions of an entertaining, informative, and/or stylistically experimental nature.

“I first learned the language of pure platonic love at four years old, sitting on the floor of my Kindergarten classroom...
05/11/2026

“I first learned the language of pure platonic love at four years old, sitting on the floor of my Kindergarten classroom. It started with another girl’s Cat in the Hat keychain and a shared shelf of books. We were “Mia and Ria.” It all sounded like a poem before I even knew how to write one.”

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Columnist ✍️: Mia Vaccarella
Article title 💻:In Defense of Platonic Love
Column 📝: Fourth Wall

“Professor Kurt Spellmeyer, God bless him, was the one who introduced me to James Joyce. I had heard of his seminal Nove...
05/09/2026

“Professor Kurt Spellmeyer, God bless him, was the one who introduced me to James Joyce. I had heard of his seminal Novels Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, but never his short stories. However, it occurred to me that short stories, as my class with Professor Spellmeyer had taught me, are tangibly different mediums than novels. There is a perception that short stories are the corner in literature most suited for the silver screen. That is what I want to explore in this review of the adaptation of James Joyce’s short story The Dead.”

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Columnist ✍️: Juliette Romero
Article title 💻: The Dead
Column 📝: Words in Motion

“With the semester coming to an end and summer around the corner, the majority of us will have a little more free time o...
05/08/2026

“With the semester coming to an end and summer around the corner, the majority of us will have a little more free time on our hands. At least enough to dedicate time to hobbies and interests that have been pushed to the side during the academic year. So if you want to get into social theory, it’s the perfect time to start.

That being said, where to do so?”

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Columnist ✍️: Diya Nathan
Article title 💻: So You Want to Read Social Theory
Column 📝: One Idea at a Time

“This article contains major spoilers for “Project Hail Mary!”It’s been a long time since I felt alive from watching a m...
05/07/2026

“This article contains major spoilers for “Project Hail Mary!”

It’s been a long time since I felt alive from watching a movie for the first time, but that is the best way I can describe the many emotions I had leaving the theater after seeing “Project Hail Mary.”

Even though the majority of the plot takes place in space far from Earth, “Project Hail Mary” reads to me as a love letter to Earth, humanity, and friendship. The story follows Dr. Grace and a loveable alien named Rocky, who are both the last left alive in their deep space missions to save their planets. They have to work together to figure out how to save their planets while simultaneously learning how to communicate with each other.”

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Columnist ✍️: Lily Barber
Article title 💻: Project Hail Mary: a Love Letter to Earth
Column 📝: You NEED to NERD out!

“This one shall be called “woman,” for out of man this one has been taken (Genesis 2:23).This line has been hammered int...
05/06/2026

“This one shall be called “woman,” for out of man this one has been taken (Genesis 2:23).

This line has been hammered into my head since the very beginning of my Catholic upbringing: I am nothing but a man’s missing rib. Not equal, not whole, but a missing piece repurposed.“

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Columnist ✍️: Mia Vaccarella
Article title 💻: In His Rib is the Envy of Her Womb
Column 📝: Fourth Wall

“It’s not embarrassing to be embarrassing. A large number of people, especially those with a big online presence, seem t...
05/05/2026

“It’s not embarrassing to be embarrassing. A large number of people, especially those with a big online presence, seem to think anything and everything is “cringe.” Honestly, the meaning of cringe is subjective, but generally speaking, there is nothing wrong with being a little bit weird. Everyone’s a bit weird, but so what?”

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Columnist ✍️: Nicole Kaushanskiy
Article title 💻: How Much Cringe is Too Much Cringe?
Column 📝: The Social Experiment

“In the last article of this column, I had mentioned the special condition William’s play A Streetcar Named Desire enjoy...
05/04/2026

“In the last article of this column, I had mentioned the special condition William’s play A Streetcar Named Desire enjoys—the fact is that the book has 4 adaptations. While this is already a departure from the usual adaptation of the canon, the thing most enticing to me was the fact that the adaptations spanned from 1951 all the way to 1995. The Hays code was identified in my review of the 1951 adaptation as a limiter to a faithful adaptation of William’s controversial work, one that placed harsh restrictions on content in cinema. Later adaptions who enjoy more progressive audiences do not suffer that limit. For this reason, I wanted to review the 1995 television adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire.”

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Columnist ✍️: Juliette Romero
Article title 💻: A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
Column 📝: Words in Motion

“At Coachella 2026, Justin Bieber reignited his fandom and “Bieber Fever” after headlining the show for two weekends and...
05/03/2026

“At Coachella 2026, Justin Bieber reignited his fandom and “Bieber Fever” after headlining the show for two weekends and setting the record for the highest paid headliner in the festival’s history. Earning a reported $10 million, Bieber put on a huge show that combined new hits, 2010s nostalgia, internet memes and a lineup of surprise guests.”

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Columnist ✍️: Aria Spinetti
Article title 💻: Standing on Business: Justin Bieber’s Comeback at Coachella
Column 📝: POParazzi

" 'I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party, and I attended with my real face,' said Franz Kafka...
05/03/2026

" 'I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party, and I attended with my real face,' said Franz Kafka, a German-speaking Jewish novelist who explored the human experience in his works. The first time I heard this quote, it immediately made me think of that heart-sinking feeling of showing up somewhere and realizing you wore “the wrong thing” compared to everyone else. It’s like everyone received some memo you did not, and that everyone’s eyes are now on you. So hearing his experience of feeling isolated for being his true self in a world that feels like everyone else is performing was striking, but also made me think to myself, what does it really mean to show up as your true self?"

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Columnist ✍️: Zoe Whiting
Article title 💻: Costume Party
Column 📝: Looks Like Meaning

“Like we’ve discussed, conflict theory is a major perspective of sociology. You could even argue it’s the most relevant,...
04/30/2026

“Like we’ve discussed, conflict theory is a major perspective of sociology. You could even argue it’s the most relevant, considering the numerous ideologies which fall under it, but it isn’t the only perspective. If you’ve taken an introductory sociology course or have done a little bit of digging into sociological perspective, you’ve most likely have heard about functionalism or symbolic interactionism. Along with conflict theory, they can be considered the “big three” of sociological perspectives, and while each perspective is unique, they do share similarities that become more apparent when examining them side by side.”

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Columnist ✍️: Diya Nathan
Article title 💻: Functions and Symbols
Column 📝: One Idea at a Time

Exciting news: “Don’t Look Away” is finally been released! 🥳 Our Spring ‘26 magazine is the culmination of all the hard ...
04/30/2026

Exciting news: “Don’t Look Away” is finally been released! 🥳 Our Spring ‘26 magazine is the culmination of all the hard work our writers, artists, graphic designers, editors, and contributors have put in over the semester. Thank you to everyone who submitted their works and eboard for making this happen 🙏

Link to the magazine is in our bio 🔗

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