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Who Would Have Guessed

Op-ed Democrats lied about Biden’s cognitive health for almost two years. He was unfit for the office and certainly not fit to run a presidential campaign. It took an embarrassing debate performance for the Democratic leadership to act and choose a “winning” candidate —something they ultimately failed to do. Biden was unpopular, old, and unwell.

By Egemen Aray
November 21, 2024
3min Read
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Asians in bocconi

Experience of 9 Asian students in Italy. In the beginning of February, we went running. While passing a bar in a Porta Romana area, a group of middle aged men shouted at us “Ni hao”. We started laughing hysterically. It wasn’t that funny actually; the funny part though was this being a third occurrence in

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On being 20

by Egemen Aray When I was blowing the candles of my 20th birthday cake, I knew things would be different. The feeling of turning a new page in life felt more serious this time – even when I compare it to the day I turned 18. 18 gave me the right to vote and the

By Egemen Aray
May 2, 2024
4min Read
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The rise and fall of reading culture

For a lot of us, books were an integral part of our childhood. Reading for pleasure was so ingrained in our day to day life that we’d fight to spend our lunch breaks devouring the last 30 pages of some sappy romance novel with a gut-wrenching, terminal illness related ending. I still remember being scolded

By Rithika Abraham
March 30, 2024
5min Read
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Cait Corrain, racism and reviews: a look into the scandal

Last year, debut author Cait Corrain secured a two-book deal with the publishing house Del Rey Books, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House. The deal included film rights, and later, the writer obtained a partnership with the subscription box service Illumicrate for her novel A Crown of Starlight. This sci-fi/fantasy (SFF) novel is “a queer

By Maria Francesca Ficarra
March 28, 2024
9min Read
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GHOSTWRITING: BEHIND THE CURTAINS OF THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY

Some specters wander around the publishing industry, hidden in the shadows. To us, they’re almost invisible, but we often read their works, and they represent one of the most efficient and profitable sectors of the book market: we are talking about ghostwriters. Who are those mysterious and controversial figures? A ghostwriter is defined as: “someone

By Maria Francesca Ficarra
January 16, 2024
7min Read
Media Society

Snapshots of War: How Media Shapes Political Narratives 

The past couple of weeks have been a reflection of the ever-turbulent relationship between media and political establishments. We can highlight the TikTok vs US Congress fiasco as a prime example of this, what with the proclaimed panic of congressmen vis a vis ‘China stealing all our data’.  Regardless of personal convictions, we can say

By Ana Beatriz Souza
May 5, 2023
8min Read
Media Society

Eurocentrist Narrative in Western Media: Changing It Is a Must

For the past few decades, Western countries have succeeded in portraying themselves as the better, more civilized, and morally superior part of the world. The United States has always been the land of the free, and the EU has been the land of democracy and human rights. What’s more, the US was determined to bring

By Egemen Aray
May 3, 2023
5min Read