Volume 16 Issue 2
Erik Beserra
Lockdowniversary

A year ago I stared at the numbers rising on the New York Times website. Every day I found myself feeling more inept as 10,000 became 20,000 became 40,000 became 80,000. I stared at the numbers like a moth at lights. Inept and discouraged. I still feel inept. I now have a tab with the New York Times vaccine distribution map. It is weird staring at this good news. Some part of me doesn’t feel hopeful since this is just what needs to be done. We failed and are now picking up the pieces.

Lockdowniversary
Volume 15 Issue 3
Lauren Mondroski
Dying to Get Outside? A Grave History of Hiking ...

This was before the establishment of large public parks, meaning that if you were a Victorian-era urban American, you most likely spent your time outdoors strolling and picnicking with family, friends, and lovers, all amidst the dead.

Dying to Get Outside? A Grave History of Hiking and Cemeteries
Volume 15 Issue 2
Allison Wallace
A list of good: a good list to make

· Arriving
· The first song you listen to through headphones
· When a good bakery has good tea (the complete experience)
· The crisp, blue outlines of the hills here in Western Oregon

A list of good: a good list to make
Volume 15 Issue 2
Nerissa Wright
Seek Discomfort

Portland is a peculiar white haven, and I come from a melting pot that smells like urine year-round. Both are good, but very different.

Seek Discomfort
Volume 14 Issue 1
Lauren Mondroski
Spoiler Alert: There Is No Coming of Age

Released on August 25, 2020, Haley Blais’ Below the Salt is an album I wish I had during my first year of college. Coincidentally, that’s when I first started listening to Blais, a Vancouver-based singer-songwriter and vlogger whose wacky sense of humor and DIY bedroom-pop bangers resonated with me, a freshman living on her own for the very first time and trying to make sense of the world and herself. That unsure first-year is a senior now, but no less unsure, and I think that’s the point of Blais’ debut album: her label writes, “Below the Salt is a coming of age story that recognizes that there is no real ‘coming of age.’”

Spoiler Alert: There Is No Coming of Age

Volume 2 Issue 7

Renovating Reed's Future

When asked her opinion on the swift progress that has recently been made on plans to establish a child care center at Reed, Ad Hoc Committee On Child Care at Reed College chair Gail Sherman’s (english, 1981–) first response is pure joy. “Its so exciting!” she says. “It feels great, and it feels like everything really lined up . . . . once the Performing Arts Building was constructed . . . there was an ability to look at the long-term needs of the college.”

Professor Reading Recommendations

Professor Reading Recommendations

Here we go, gang, coming into the home stretch. The last days of the fall semester. There we are, crouching in some godforsaken corner of the library, the taste of adrenaline on our tongues, and a singular desire on our minds: finish strong on our finals and head home for some well-deserved television watching and non-specific-winter-holiday celebrating. Imagine this, though, Reedie, if you dare. Two weeks into winter break you sit in front of your computer and browse your Netflix instant queue, but come up short. Its empty! Then you remember this amazing thing you used to know about, something you spent hour upon youthful hour engrossed in, protesting when your mother insisted you busy yourself with another activity for a scant thirty minutes. Reading! You gaze over at your well-worn book shelf and ponder, what should you pick up to peruse as you sit in front of a crackling fire and intermittently gaze out at the snow-speckled landscape on this wintry afternoon? Thankfully, your beloved professors will answer that question for you! Check out these recommendations from some of our esteemed faculty for your winter reading pleasure, and head to Reedthegrail.com for a more comprehensive list.