Lit Stuff!
Works in this genre, which is strongly associated with Latin America, include Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate and Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits.
What is magical realism?
Figure out whodunnit at this rush event featuring time travelers, happening this Friday.
What is Murder Mystery?
What is anthropology?
Notable examples of this type of work are The Order of the Stick, xkcd, and Homestuck.
What is a webcomic?
A favorite of the house, this animation studio has produced movies such as Whispers of the Heart, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Spirited Away.
What is Studio Ghibli? (or just Ghibli)
The 1993 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, this author wrote books such as Tar Baby, Sula, and Song of Solomon.
Who is Toni Morrison?
King House is located on the corner of these two auspiciously-named streets.
What are Hope and Benevolent?
The study of fungi.
What is mycology?
This BBC TV show, which was the subject of a conspiracy involving a supposed extra episode, was criticized by hbomberguy in a two-hour long video essay.
What is Sherlock?
Some members enjoy works of this type, which often feature lavish costumes and stately homes in the English countryside.
What are period dramas?
This author, who wrote under a masculine pen-name, is best known for a work that takes its name from the town where it is set and stars Dorothea Brooke and Nicholas Bulstrode, among others.
Who is George Eliot?
Our literary magazine.
What is The Sketchbook?
A book series that concludes in its second installment.
What is a duology?
This genre of video game allows players to manipulate environments solely via text commands.
What is interactive fiction?
This 2012 animated movie stars Mavis, her overprotective father, and the redheaded (human) Johnny.
What is Hotel Transylvania?
This contemporary author of The Poppy War trilogy came to speak at Brown in 2022, an event organized by one of our very own alums!
Who is R.F. Kuang?
When words fail us, members of the house can often be found making this noise at each other.
What is meowing?
A medical speciality dealing with the ear, nose, and throat.
What is otolaryngology? (Or otorhinolaryngology)
What is Dracula?
This Finnish author created the delightful Moomins, who star in several television series enjoyed by the house.
Who is Tove Jansson?
The titles of a Booker Prize-winning novel set in New Zealand, a young adult fantasy novel set in the Nigeria-inspired world of Orïsha, and an Edwidge Danticat novel about the Parsley Massacre all contain this word.
What is bone? (or What are bones?)
This decade featured the release of Donkey Kong, the most recent appearance of Halley's Comet, and the refounding of our chapter.
What are the 1980s?
The study of biological tissues on a teeny-tiny scale.
What is histology?
It's not Blaseball, but this multimedia work speculates on the future of a popular American sport.
What is 17776? (Or What is What Football Will Look Like in the Future?)
Did you know that Brown provides a subscription to the Met Opera on Demand? Members have been trying to find a time to watch this Philip Glass opera based on the life of an Egyptian pharaoh, but it turns out finding three free hours is easier said than done.
What is Akhnaten?