On the 24th april 2024 NMS hosted the annual “Fashion Revolution Day” The Abitur Kunst LK amazed the entire school with their self-made, upcycled fashion line, that they modelled themselves. Between daring cut-outs, colourful patchwork and flared jeans, one couldn’t decide where to look first. 

Lovesickness is a term ensconced in our dictionaries, unquestionably proving that illness and infatuation have a history of association. Gabriel García Márquez takes this connection one step further in his esteemed novel “Love in the Time of Cholera” first published in 1985. 

Shirley Jackson’s “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” (1962) is a true masterpiece of gothic suspense. The reader is immediately intimately addressed by the main protagonist Mary Katherine (Merricat) Blackwood. Her first-person narration becomes an equally haunting as fascinating experience that leaves a psychedelic thrill in the reader. 

Spectacularly mundane is arguably the only way to describe John Williams 20th century work of unassuming brilliance. 

Before starting to divulge details of the how and why, we must establish that Stoner is a novel that echoes. 

Mary Shelley described her world-renowned novel “Frankenstein” published in 1818 as “a cautionary tale of what happens when men play god.” Frankenstein is essentially the story of how intellectual arrogance leads to total destruction. Nevertheless, in 1818 society was still unquestionably perceiving the product of this arrogance as a monster.