Chau Anh Nguyen, Author at The Kenyon Collegian

Section: Arts

Review: Exquisite Corpse staged reading brings gore, humor

I would say I have a stomach for body horror, having cackled at the climactic scene of the 2024 film “The Substance” when the… Read More

by Chau Anh Nguyen
April 16, 2026
Section: Opinion

I lost my trust in Kenyon

Now, before you yell at me for my naïveté, I only do this at Kenyon. Nowhere else do I leave my belongings on a… Read More

by Chau Anh Nguyen
April 9, 2026
Section: Arts

Album review: A Lot’s About to Happen to Me, emotionally

O Mitski, does it get better? As often as I direct that unanswerable question to one of my favorite artists, I have also always… Read More

by Chau Anh Nguyen
March 26, 2026
Section: Arts

Pollock collapses the personal and political at reading

“The high church silence in-between poems is a lonely place to be as a poet,” Iain Haley Pollock joked to the audience in Cheever… Read More

by Chau Anh Nguyen
February 12, 2026
Section: Arts

Horn’s Band Showcase offers warm notes on a cold night

There’s rarely a dull weekend at Kenyon. For a student population of around 2,000, musical talents are ample — a fact made clear when… Read More

by Chau Anh Nguyen
February 12, 2026
Section: Features

AI vs. Creative Writing? Three Kenyon professors weigh in

At home, language is steam— rice cooker clicking into rest, my mother’s voice folding another country into the kitchen. Read More

by Chau Anh Nguyen
February 5, 2026
Section: Features

DISCO provides needed advocacy, community on campus

Picture this: you are down in L1 or L2, turning the handle on the rolling shelves to retrieve a book. Does it cross your… Read More

by Chau Anh Nguyen
April 10, 2025
Section: Features

Spring break travel courses skip town for Greece, Galapagos

During spring break, students in two courses, ENVS 291: The Galapagos Islands and CLAS 121: Greek Archaeology, had their classrooms shifted from tucked-away Gambier… Read More

by Chau Anh Nguyen
March 27, 2025
Section: Features

A gouda time was had by all: Hesse shares cheese expertise

Cheese brings smiles to faces — this, Caroline Hesse ’14 knows well. The shortened version of her name, C. Hesse, which she hated as… Read More

by Chau Anh Nguyen
February 13, 2025
Section: Features

Kenyon’s very own “Holdovers”: winter break on the Hill

Deer and squirrels are not the only inhabitants of the snow-cloaked campus during winter break. Each break, while the majority of students head back… Read More

by Chau Anh Nguyen
January 16, 2025