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Revisiting Shakespeare: Finding Monstrosity in “The Tempest”

Revisiting Shakespeare: Finding Monstrosity in “The Tempest”

Examining Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” in this edition of Revisiting Shakespeare, Editor-in-Chief Edwyn Choi ’27 explores Caliban’s legacy and how the play’s language of monstrosity, law, and property continues to shape conversations about colonialism and race.

Taking the Plunge into “Sátántangó”

Taking the Plunge into “Sátántangó”

In this film review of “Sátántangó,” Contributing Writer Lucy Li ’28 reflects on the immersive experience of Béla Tarr’s slow-cinema epic and its adaptation of László Krasznahorkai’s novel, exploring how duration and bleak humor reshape the act of watching a film.

The Indicator x The Student: “Final Draft”

In this chilling campus horror story, “Final Draft” by Jude Tait ’28 tells a story of how an issue spirals into a deadly urban legend. As paranoia spreads, the story builds toward a meditation on authorship, ambition, and the terrifying cost of finding your voice.

Lowery’s “Mother Mary” Hits All the Wrong Notes

Lowery’s “Mother Mary” Hits All the Wrong Notes

Staff Writer Harry Finnegan ’28 offers a witty yet scathing review of David Lowery’s 2026 musical drama “Mother Mary,” which follows a pop star’s emotional reckonings as she prepares to return to the stage, using three criteria to break down the movie’s shortcomings.

Three for Three: Reviewing “The Christophers”

Three for Three: Reviewing “The Christophers”

In his latest low-key indie, Steven Soderbergh turns inward with “The Christophers,” a spare, incisive meditation on art, mortality, and creative disillusionment. Staff Writer Harry Finnegan ’28 discusses how this film emerges as a personal, self-reflexive work that only Soderbergh could deliver.

The Indicator x The Student: “Nighttime Ballad for a Green-Blue Song”

In collaboration with The Indicator, The Student presents “Nighttime Ballad for a Green-Blue Song,” a poem by Hannah Kwon ’27, after Suji Kwock Kim, featured in the magazine’s latest fall issue.

The Indicator x The Student: “Strokes of Vermilion”

Featured in the Fall 2025 issue of the Indicator, Sarria Joe ’27 shares “Strokes of Vermilion,” a story about the pain of lost love and making the choice of prioritizing independence over intimacy.