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Linda Huang

Linda Huang is an associate editor for the Daily, having previously served as the executive editorial board editor. She is a senior majoring in economics and international relations with a minor in philosophy and can be reached at peixuan.huang@tufts.edu.

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The Bigger Picture: How ‘The Drama’ missed its bigger picture

By Linda Huang | April 24

The new A24 film “The Drama” (2026), directed by Kristoffer Borgli and starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, looks good on paper: It has a likable cast, great humor, engagement with social issues and a theme that extends beyond the generic plots romantic comedies often embody. All in all, “The Drama” seems to check many of the boxes that would typically appeal to viewers. Yet after watching it, I was left completely unfulfilled.

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The Bigger Picture: Nostalgia for a life never lived

By Linda Huang | April 9

I haven’t ugly cried from watching a movie in a very long time, but something about sad Chinese drama movies always makes it impossible for me to hold back my tears. And that was my activity last Tuesday night: alone in my room, crying about emotions that I couldn’t pinpoint in the moment.

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The Bigger Picture: ‘Project Hail Mary’

By Linda Huang | April 2

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s “Project Hail Mary” (2026) is one of those films that you enter with high expectations, only to find that it doesn’t meet them in any of the ways you anticipated, yet leaves you just as — if not more — fulfilled in ways you never anticipated.

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The Bigger Picture: How Roman Polanski became his own ‘art’

By Linda Huang | February 19

Oscar-winning Polish director and convicted sex offender Roman Polanski can be said to have redefined the way ‘evilness’ was depicted on screen in the 1960s through his masterpiece “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968). Unfortunately, just nine years later, he redefined the same evil himself by committing statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl.

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The Bigger Picture: ‘When Harry Met Sally…’

By Linda Huang | February 13

Welcome back to my column! Thanks to the one and only movie review submission I received last semester, today I’ll be revisiting Rob Reiner’s classic, heartwarming, Valentine’s-perfect “When Harry Met Sally…” (1989) — easily one of my all-time favorite comfort rewatches.

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Is critical thinking a crime now?

By Linda Huang | November 6

A few weeks ago, I was doomscrolling Instagram and came across a Wall Street Journal post titled “Mamdani Is Promising a Cheaper New York. But Can He Afford to Pay for It?” When I opened the comments, I was disappointed but not surprised to see that the first comment said: “media propaganda is out in full force against him,” followed by over 1200 likes. 

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The Bigger Picture: Choose boldly, choose whenever you can

By Linda Huang | October 29

Humans are born to think that we are capable of developing a sense of basic autonomy and agency — the abilities to govern ourselves, free from external control or influence, and to make choices for ourselves to achieve an intended goal. From an early age, we learn that our frontal lobe will develop as we age, allowing us to eventually make independent decisions for ourselves and live life as we want.

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The Bigger Picture: Let Maggie Cheung tell you about wealth and identity

By Linda Huang | October 16

On my flight back to Boston from Hong Kong, I watched “Comrades: Almost a Love Story” (1996), a Hong Kong film directed by Peter Chan and starring Leon Lai and Maggie Cheung — the perfect ending to my summer. The bittersweet emotions this romantic melodrama evoked quickly earned it a place at the top of my list of Hong Kong classics, despite its poorly translated English title. The original Chinese name, “Tian Mi Mi,” literally means “Sweet Honey,” a far better description of the film’s tender yet heartbreaking tone.

Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts University, housed in the Joyce Cummings Center, is pictured on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024.
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Reap the entrepreneurial benefits that Boston has to offer

By Linda Huang | October 7

On Sept. 19, I attended the Cross University Student Innovators Mixer at Tufts, hosted by the Derby Entrepreneurship Center, right after 2025 Startup Boston Week. While Elaine Chen, director of the Derby Entrepreneurship Center, kindly told me that I, too, am an “innovator” despite never having started a business myself, I knew I was part of the majority of Tufts students who have never seriously considered launching a startup at this stage in life. To put it bluntly: There are far fewer startups coming out of Tufts compared to many other universities, and I’m one of the reasons why there isn’t one more.

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