Elyn Saks felt suffocated, trapped in a room filled with doctors. She lay restrained with leather bounds, her hands and feet tied, she said. It was her first year at Yale Law School; she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, a psychosis defined by paranoid delusions, hallucinations, dysfunctional ways of thinking and agitated body movements, according […]
Author Archives: Carol Yao
Book Review: ‘The Raven King’
In the small magical town of Henrietta, Virginia, a girl named Blue Sargent befriends four boys: a rebel, a prince, a shadow and a ghost. The four boys were known as the Raven Boys from the nearby private academy Blue swore to never step foot on, but throughout the course of Maggie Stiefvater’s “The Raven […]
Professor works with the Getty on exhibition of Buddhist cave art
Peter Sellars traveled halfway across the globe to see the dusty caverns of the Mogao Grottoes near Dunhuang, China. “It was so overwhelming. The caves are so amazing in the history of arts, and yet a cool thing about them, they’re also amazing in the history of Buddhism,” Sellars said. “The cave paintings had musicians […]
Book Review: ‘Riders’
Through a tale of love, friendship and self-realization, Veronica Rossi ventures into the world of urban fantasy with “Riders.” It is the first book of her newest series, and follows the story of 18-year-old Gideon Blake as he is confined by the U.S. government and accused of conducting suspicious activities. Rossi, an emerging author and […]
Student’s solo art exhibition draws curiosity on fluidity of identity
Ten-year-old Alice Jung didn’t know how to speak Korean when she and her family moved from Tucson, Arizona to Seoul, South Korea so she sketched. She drew bluebirds to prove to her classmates that birds other than pigeons existed in America. Until she mastered the language, she spoke through her art. “The only way I […]
Movie Review: ‘The 5th Wave’
Watching “The 5th Wave” felt like when my dad made prepackaged macaroni and cheese a few years ago. By all reason the dish should have been easy to prepare: the ingredients were included and so were the instructions, but he still managed to set the kitchen on fire. In a similar fashion, the book had […]
Sounds of Schoenberg: The Afro-Cuban Batá drums
Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. This week, we highlight the Afro-Cuban Batá, a set of sacred drums used to honor the African Yoruba Gods. Four-year-old Melena Francis […]