EDITOR’S NOTE

THE BASICS

Limits of the “blowfish effect”: Exemplar variability outweighs atypicality to support basic-level generalization during word learning
by Kennedy Casey

The Fiction of Ong’s Hat: Too Good to be False
by Jayaditya Deep

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS

Quantitative Analysis of Intensity, Saturation, and Hue in Vincent van Gogh’s Paintings
by Maya Chande

Too Good to Be True: MyFitnessPal’s Gamification of Weight Loss and Its Dangerous Consequences
by Theresa Lim

EVIDENCE

Searching Inside a Cut: Ethnography as a Lens to Examine Emergent Relationalities
by Ariadni Kertsikof

“Does it have to be complicated?”: Technologically Mediated Romance and Identity in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Normal People

by Julia Walton

The Futile Female Fight
by Noori Zubieta

NARRATIVE

Agents of Change: Hollywood Agents and Gatekeeping
by Jacy Duan

Pedagogy in the Playhouse: The Role of Hans Krása’s Opera Brundibár in Modern Holocaust Education Through the Arts
by Julie Levey

NON-TEXTUAL SOURCES

The Feminized Male Lead Dancer: How Chinese TikTok Dances are Redefining Gender Roles
by Julia Zhou

THESIS

Monstrous Consumption and Resistance in The Vegetarian and “Eight Bites”
by Paige Allen

The Hypocrisies of Wonka’s Chocolate World: Flipping Dahl’s Story Inside Out
by Paige Min

FEATURE

Women We Buried: Female Entrapment and Storytelling as Agency in Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped
by Cassandra James