Welcome to the Fall 2024 issue of NYU’s Greene Street Review, the CAS English Department’s cultural critique magazine. We’re excited to share some of New York City’s finest artists, writers, critics, and more in this semester’s publication. This semester, we are publishing a collection of essays, reviews, visual media, and poems. Let us know your favorites with an email or hit us up on Instagram (@greenestreview)!

“The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.” – André Malraux

Reviews

• Inner Landscape and Fellini’s 8 1/2 – Ohary Ahedo
• Escapism, the Old-Fashioned Way in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation – Ella Briggs
• Cinema’s Role in Shaping Memory & History: The Bling Ring Case– Zora Kings

Essays

• Things You Can’t Fit in a Box– Stephanie (Yihui) He
• You Forgot Your Lamp – Nora Cahill
• Why I write – Isabela Fitzgerald 
• Fact Checking Freedom of Speech – William Main
• When a Friend Asks Me Where I Live – Bejamin Ambros King Sumabat

Visual Media 

• How do I talk of your presence when it is composed of your absence in my life? – Murdoc Kang
• City in Transition: Chinatown in the Fall – Libety Stan 

Poetry

• Metamorphosis; three sections – Hrishit Chaudhuri
• Subletting – Katharine Benson
• In Mindanao, ‘Amping’ was the First Binsaya Word I Learned – Benjamin Ambros King Sumabat
• See You – Levi Langley
• Stillness – Yi Liu
• Funeral Dirge – L Daniel
• For Jane – Mia Lindenburg
• Motherhood (As Explained by a Daughter)/ Daughterhood (As Explained by a Mother) – Saachi Sethii

 

Our Editors:

Managing Editor

 

Sarah Whitacre, Senior

Major: English Literature, Journalism

Favorite book: Slow Days, Fast Company, Eve Babitz

 

Senior Editors

 

Leilani Sandoval-Duran, Senior

Major: Politics, English Literature

Favorite book: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

 

Sophia Anderson, Senior

Major: English 

Favorite author: Ottessa Moshfegh

Copy Editors

 

 

Bella Peter

Major: English Literature

Favorite book: Aspects of Love, David Garnett

 

 

L Daniel

Major: English Writing

Favorite poem: Formaldehyde’s Love Song, Seth Amos 

 

 

Jonathan Wallach

Major: English Writing

Favorite book: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Section Editors – Essays

 

Willa Pope Robbins

Major: Individualized Study 

Favorite: Play It as It Lays, Didion

 

 

Ashley Kribs

Major: English Literature

Favorite book: Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid

 

 

Em Higgins

Major: Photography & Imaging

Favorite author(s): Eve Babitz and Fran Lebowitz

 

 

 

Anna Wang

Major: History

Favorite book: Harry Potter, JK Rowling

 

Section Editors – Poetry

Max Rosner

Major: Sociology

Favorite book: Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby Jr.