Rishi Janakiraman, Editor-in-Chief
Rishi Janakiraman is a junior at OHS, and this is his fourth year at the Observer. His work, often centered on literature and literary culture, has appeared in Poetry Daily‘s news column, The New York Times, and in Discordia Review. He’s interested in criticism that foregrounds pleasure—wit, irony, camp, excess—over interpretation, and he aims to encourage OHS staff writers to write review pieces for our Arts & Culture column. His favorite writers include Elif Batuman, Hilton Als, Susan Sontag, and Andrea Long Chu. In his free time, he can be found watching Studio Ghibli movies or going to the nearest ramen place in downtown Raleigh.
