What do 15th-century Constantinople, contemporary Idaho, and a generational spaceship escaping Earth sometime in the future have...

Over the last week, the all-time Broadway classic “Mamma Mia!” played in the Citizens Bank Opera House in Boston. This year is...

It’s not often that you get the opportunity to watch a century-old film. Luckily for students of the Film History course, film...

Singer Charli XCX has taken the world by storm with her recent album, Brat. This album has received attention from people all around...

Amity Shao ’26 has been a vibrant part of the Concord Academy community for three years, during which time she has made many artful...

Gracie Abrams’ sophomore album, “The Secret of Us,” beautifully blends various genres, crafting a sound that resonates with a wide...

It was the night before the first day of senior year and I was looking for a movie to watch. As I was browsing, I came across Lady...

What gives literature its “true” meaning? Is it found in the speaker’s intent or embedded within the syntax itself? In vernacular...

Thrown in a background of time and space travel is the unique novel "This is How You Lose the Time War”. The story stretches out...

Olivia Rodrigo’s 2023 sophomore album GUTS earned a deluxe version called GUTS (spilled) in early 2024. Since then, it has not...

The Storied Life of A.J. Finkry is a book that catches you off guard. Set on a small Massachusetts island, the book takes you through...

Whenever the phrase “the artist” is followed by a serious and universal declaration of some sort in my English class, it would...

On April 20, a group of musicians traveled to Benchmark Senior Living at Robbins Brook to perform music for the residents.

As the school year draws to a close, the Concord Academy Ensembles had their end-of-year performances. These performances allowed...

Erykah Badu recorded her first album, Baduizm when Badu dropped out of university and decided to pursue music full time. Live delivers...

If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? This is the question that Chloe Benjamin’s 2018 novel, The Immortalists...

Every year when the weather begins to warm up, the sun starts to set a little later, and the quad is littered with students on...

Over the last few days of break, I was lucky enough to snag a ticket to the new A24 “killer romance,” Love Lies Bleeding. The film...

Since her rise to fame in the 1960s, Joni Mitchell has completely redefined the folk music genre and has made a name for herself...

Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” has been the talk of the town, capturing the world’s attention for quite some time. After Swift wrapped...

Later this Spring, audiences will be whisked away on the journey of a lifetime. The members of the Concord Academy Cabaret are...

With stunning visuals, a brilliantly deep soundtrack, and immersive world-building, Dune: Part Two, the second movie of the Dune...

The 2024 Oscars award ceremony took place on March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. A chaotic mixture of solemnity...

On a chilly February afternoon, I picked up a book titled Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. Instantly, I was captured.

The “+-=÷× Tour,” or the “Mathematics Tour,” is a world tour comprising 116 shows in support of Ed Sheeran’s 5th and 6th albums...

2023 was an exciting year for films with smash hits at the domestic and international box office, including Barbie, Oppenheimer...

The reason we care about acting is not just that theatre classes are great or that Shakespeare is a must-read classic, but that...

On February 4th, 2024, musicians gathered in Los Angeles for the historic 66th Grammy Awards. On a night when countless musical...

Just three days after concluding their year-long international tour, boygenius took home three Awards at the 66th Annual Grammy...

Imagine if four different realities converged in one city, intertwining magic and mystery with truth. This scenario is precisely...

Given that they share one-course title, the variety of 9th-grade English classes may come as a surprise, with current reads ranging...

On Saturday, February 10, the junior class hosted the annual Semi-Formal Dance, an event often overlooked in favor of the more...

On an evening in December, I sat down to read a book called This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and...

“THINK LATER,” a captivating blend of multiple genres of music, is Tate McRae's second studio album. The album, newly released...

On January 7, the 81st Golden Globe Awards ceremony took place in Beverly Hills, California. It streamed on various television...

On Friday, January 12, Mean Girls (2024) was released in movie theaters across the U.S. This beloved story began as the book Queen...

Halfway through this past winter break, my family and I found ourselves on a mad dash across Times Square to catch one of New York...

On Friday, December 1, Concord Academy’s Poetry Club hosted its first Open Mic event of the school year. With the support of English...

First published in Japan in 1994 by Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police is translated by Stephen Snyder. It is a dreamlike dystopian...

The lights dim, and the curtains open as audience members scramble to their seats. For the next two hours, dancers rush across...

The curse of live-action adaptations has become infamous to so many fanbases. The Lion King, Death Note, Avatar the Last Airbender...

How do you portray the past? It is a question that informs—and, at times, haunts—Ridley Scott's historical Napoleon, which first...

Nightcrawler was released on October 31, 2021, and was directed by David Gilroy. The movie follows the adventures of Lou Bloom...

To continue the festive cheer of winter, the Performing Arts department has organized both a Holiday Concert and a Chamber Concert...

Imagine a stage where the art of dance meets the magic of technology, where graceful movements are illuminated by majestic light...

I have always loved Donna Tartt's writing—one of my favorite books is The Secret History—but I was unsure this book would live...

The new album The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We by artist Mitski has stirred up lots of attention on the internet, as Mitski...

On June 18, 2023, Boygenius arrived in Boston and played an hour-and-a-half-long set at The Stage at Suffolk Downs. The band has...

There is an air of excitement about the Concord Academy campus: the sound of students practicing their lines, trying to get their...

Halloween is quickly approaching, and so too are opportunities for Concord Academy students to show off incredible cosplays and...

I read Ariadna Efron's memoir in Chinese and soon discovered that there is no English equivalent of this book. The edition, which...

The 1984 A24 Talking Heads documentary Stop Making Sense has recently returned to theaters for its fortieth anniversary. Dubbed...

While many Concord Academy students have been busy with sports, the Concord Academy Dance Project (CADP) dancers have spent their...

Hollywood is on pause. You can see it in the daily pickets in front of major studios and how nearly every movie and TV show has stopped production.

Bright colors jumping out of the screen, tunes that will run through your head all day, and talking birds–that’s what to love about Rio.

The new season of critically acclaimed anime Jujutsu Kaisen, adapted from the manga of the same name by author Gege Akutami, began airing in July 2023...

On the Bordone Room gallery bench of the Kunsthistorisches museum in Vienna, Reger, a pensive and negative music critic, stares at Tintoretto's White Bearded Man.

Here at Concord Academy, we are very proud of our performing artists. With two mainstage productions a year, a new building in progress, a lively...

Last school year, Whiteboard Girl ’26, the individual who created whiteboard art in the hallway of first floor labs, certainly made a name for herself...

The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff is a young adult science fiction novel that follows the main characters, Kady Grant and Ezra Mason. At the start of the story, the two are living on the planet Kar...

While many Concord Academy students are involved in the arts, it is rare for disparate art disciplines to collaborate on an interdisciplinary project. When the opportunity does arise, it is a great learning experience of whic...

In recent weeks, construction has begun on Concord Academy’s ambitious West Campus project, which includes the addition of the new performing arts building dubbed the Centennial Arts Center, or CAC. The CAC and its constructi...

The 2014 movie, Whiplash, is a piece of cinema that almost everyone can agree is worth watching. It boasts a very talented cast: most notably, the main character, Miles Teller, as well as Andrew Neiman and J.K Simmon...

Whether one is a diehard theater kid, a mild musical enjoyer, or a tolerator at most, Alexander Hamilton is now a household name. This is arguably due to Hamilton, the 2015 hip-hop rap musical. While most may only se...

Until recently, I have never been a big fan of science fiction stories. Oftentimes, they follow the same basic storyline without much variation. Our young protagonist and their battle-hardened mentor set off across the cosmos...

The Oscars has announced this year’s nominations. While many prominent film creators are eagerly awaiting the results, which will be broadcasted live on March 12, there are many masterpieces that have been overlooked. My awar...

The body as neither altar nor afterthought; the spirit as neither savior nor specimen. These are the relations that define much of Leila Chatti’s debut poetry collection, Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), in which ...

The Banshees of Inshirin is simple on the surface. Set on a remote Irish island, it is the story of a dull-but-kind man, Pádraic (Colin Farrell), whose best friend, Colm (Brendan Gleeson) su...

I have read many books. Most of them are forgettable—fun at the time, but not very meaningful to me. Others stay with me. Orbiting Jupiter is in the second category. Its beauty is in its simplicity. I have never forg...

On Wednesday, January 11, the Concord Academy community was treated with the work from the students in the film program during the fall semester. Projects from Intro to Film, Intro to Animation, and Intermediate Animation wer...

Over CA’s winter break, many found themselves glued to the TV as the twists and turns of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery played out before them. Without any spoilers, the basic plot is as follows: a powerful tech t...

On Friday, January 13, from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., What’s On Your Mind (WOYM), a student-run playwriting club, held a play festival in the Performing Arts Center. This event featured eleven five to ten minute plays written a...

When someone hears the claim that “we live in a simulation,” they would probably picture the kind of simulation that is portrayed in The Matrix or Rick and Morty: an ultra-advanced form of digitalized virtua...

”We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.”

Peter Weir’s smart and stunning The Truman Show is not just a simple movie, it is one of those in...

As shadows clad in flowing suits and beaked masks emerged from a stage pitched into darkness only interrupted by vibrant lights, audience members quietened in anticipation for the Concord Academy Dance Project: Dark Befor...

China implements strict censorship which impedes the creation of otherwise preeminent artworks. The film industry, in particular, is encroached on extensively in this way. Any scene that may be interpreted as politically infl...

When I first watched The Sixth Sense, a horror thriller released in 1999, the twist at the end of the film was shocking to me. It was also the only logical explanation for the inexplicable moments throughout the film...

The new gallery spaces are about to open up for students and faculty members across the hallways in the main building. A variety of visual art forms such as photography, painting, drawing will be displayed.

“History has failed us, but no matter.” Min Jin Lee opens Pachinko with a puzzlingly simple statement that ultimately encapsulates the powerful five-generation saga that unfolds within the book’s pages.

Trigger Warning: Suicide is mentioned in this article.

How does a...

Have you ever had the urge to learn how to fight… safely? Concord Academy’s Stage Combat Workshops gave CA students just this opportunity. Spread over two weekends, these workshops allowed both the general community and those...

There comes a point in time every year when some interaction or social media scrolling will prompt the reaction: “Wait, the Emmys are tonight?” This year that day was September 12. At 8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time the acade...

“Where is Jessica Hyde?”

This is not a question. It is a threat. A promise. A clue. It is an invitation into a tangled web of mystery and hidden stories and conspiracy. It ...

Franchise films are omnipresent. I am certainly guilty of occasionally binging Marvel movies myself. However, the industry has come to a point where these franchise films, mass-produced by giant corporations, are pushing cine...

On Sunday, September 11, Concord Academy hosted the Concord Chamber Music Society’s (CCMS) first in-person performance back since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The performance, featuring world-class musicians David ...

At the beginning of the summer, I was wandering around my town’s bookstore in search of a book that would fit some very particular criteria: The book needed to be small and lightweight while still having a hardcover so that i...

Multiverses are hard to deliver, and they are not exactly my cup of tea. Characters lose true agency; their growth and development arcs are diminished, and the metaphorical concept once marked by infinite possibilities begins...

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

So begins Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice...

In the final months leading up to summer of 2022, Will Liu ’24 made a spectacular entrance into the realm of experimental rock. “The Happiness Incident,” Will’s debut album containing nine meticulously crafted songs, is avail...

With nearly seventy cumulative visual and performing arts offerings, the Concord Academy arts program gives students the opportunity to learn at all levels. Concord Academy’s talented staff of arts teachers create fun and eng...

The Arts Council at Concord Academy consists of 6 students chosen by faculty members from the Performing and Visual arts departments, and members of the current year’s council. The 2022-2023 Arts Council will consist of 3 jun...

On the weekend of April 30, Concord Academy's Performing Arts Department showcased another masterful performance with its spring mainstage, The Cradle Will Rock.

W...

My older sister is excellent at picking out books. So in March, when she handed me the 2020 book Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing by Kevin Davies, I decided to give i...

This May, the bustling spring performing arts season at Concord Academy continues the celebration of student-driven productions through Directors’ Workshop. As CA’s highest level theater course, this semester-long opportunity...

The House is a cozy kind of creepy. Unlike conventional horror films, The House relies much less on cheap jump scares, rather giving you nightmares through pure psychological horror. This is no ordinary feat...

Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye, published in 1988, is a novel about the experience of Elaine Risley, who goes back to her hometown Toronto and confronts (or rather, is haunted by) memories of her family, her childhood b...

A few years ago, I stumbled upon Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam, Jr. while browsing a local bookstore. As someone who likes science and astrophysics, the title intrigued me and I was sold after reading the blurb on the ...

As audience members ascended the central stairway of the Student Health and Athletic Center (SHAC) Saturday, February 26, evening, warmly-lit fairy lights hovering over the balcony illuminated their presence, transforming the...

“It is a restless moment. She has kept her head lowered … to give him a chance to come closer. But he could not, for lack of courage. She turns and walks away.” These are the starting words of the cinematic masterpiece that i...

The current pandemic has had a tremendous impact on musicians, but none have been affected more than wind instrument players. In the fall, wind ensembles were able to practice outdoors where masking was not enforced. After mu...