Karen Yuan

College student. I write about film and sometimes other stuff here. See more at http://bit.ly/1oe2Pdi.

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How Hollywood screws up the Beat image

Ginsberg and the gang roll in their graves.

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How it feels to graduate from boarding school

That cicadic noise disappears. A note on my phone from a month after graduation.

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The curious case of ‘Mandela’

Watch “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,” but not like you’d watch other films.

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Disney finally gets it right (ish) with ‘Frozen’

Fairytale tropes, inside-out and upside-down.

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