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Dylan R. Ragas

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Outside the Dollhouse / Proof of life

In the cooling air your face cracks open like a ceramic dish; you are insane, hungry, harmful,

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It is All Half Lights* / Before Memorial Day

The androgynous mind sleeps, it is halting/halted, faulting/faulted —

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Weaver’s Way / In Blue

And the ceilings are high, voices echo from two rooms over among arches and paneling. Dark water. A river, green and lapping in a distant country in which I’ve never stepped foot —

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In Italy / Mary & Joanna

In Italy I learn things that I did not learn

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Year in Review

Arts Vanity: Four Historical Moments that Should Have Been Creep-ified

Four historical moments that I think would’ve benefited from Radiohead's “Creep” playing in the background.

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Inherited / Northeast Regional

Inherited For somewhere, there’s a house that’s burning. An old man rambles how after a hard day of work the first thing

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“Elite” Season 7 Review: All Glamor, No Grounding

After a promising and carefully-planned first three seasons, seasons four through six of “Elite” signaled the show’s definitive decline, and unfortunately, season seven seems poised to be the final nail in the coffin.

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Absence / Siren

Dylan R. Ragas ’26’s column, “Yard Sale Organs,” is a collection of poems that attempt to make sense of a past — real, imagined, but mostly somewhere in between.

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Music

In Which We Finally Figure Out What The Fox Says: A 10-Year Retrospective

To psychologize the voice of another being is a lofty task, indeed.

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Blood Gone Red / Blood Song

Dylan R. Ragas ’26’s column, “Yard Sale Organs,” is a collection of poems that attempt to make sense of a past — real, imagined, but mostly somewhere in between.

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Verona / Manhunt

Been thinking a lot about orange and blue. Sun on brick and cerulean skies. How you’d see it and from what vantage point. It’s feeling like

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Music

‘Eyes Closed’ Review: The Beginning of the Ed Sheeran Renaissance?

While far from the chart-topping domination of Sheeran’s “Divide,” the single marks a return to his roots for the English singer-songwriter.

"Riverdale" Season 7 Episode 1 Premiere
Arts

‘Riverdale’ Season Seven Premiere Review: A Joke Gone Too Far

"Riverdale," once a classic CW teen drama, has now become something else. What that is has been eluding the average viewer for many seasons now.

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Gatsby / 51mm

Gatsby To see dawn’s red face, angry against a brooding  horizon. Your dowdy eyes, your tears: pearly,  lactic. Two fingers pressed to the roof  of your mouth, the prickle and the purge. I slice

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On Campus

In Photos: Lupe Fiasco at Harvard Law School

A Grammy award-winning rapper and a visiting scholar at MIT, Lupe Fiasco led an event for Harvard Law School affiliates to learn about the Royal Game of Ur this March.

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