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  • Inversed: A Review of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

    Inversed: A Review of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

    Rooney’s miscommunication troupe manifests uniquely in Intermezzo compared to her previous books, as this novel focuses…

  • Learning to impede the movement: thoughts on Red Doc> by Anne Carson

    Learning to impede the movement: thoughts on Red Doc> by Anne Carson

    A chorus sets the stage. Piled into one car: G, Sad, Ida embark on a dayless…

  • A Review of Jenny Hval’s Paradise Rot

    A Review of Jenny Hval’s Paradise Rot

    The real magic of Paradise Rot happens not through extravagant plot, but through the rich tapestry…

  • Unrecorded Lives: A Review of Tell Me Everything By Elizabeth Strout

    Unrecorded Lives: A Review of Tell Me Everything By Elizabeth Strout

    Still, there is something touching about it, this young woman who never expressed her feelings but…

  • Class and Connection in Sally Rooney’s “Mr. Salary”

    Class and Connection in Sally Rooney’s “Mr. Salary”

    As Rooney’s career reaches new heights, I find myself coming back to “Mr. Salary” to revisit…

  • Authorial Projection: A Review of Writers & Lovers by Lily King

    Authorial Projection: A Review of Writers & Lovers by Lily King

    “Writers & Lovers” is a late coming-of-age story that follows Casey Peabody, a woman in her…

  • Astrological Placement of the Millennial Woman: A Review of Jenna Tico’s Cancer Moon

    Astrological Placement of the Millennial Woman: A Review of Jenna Tico’s Cancer Moon

    There is something bonding about the shared experiences of women growing into themselves and gradually becoming…

  • On the Crimson Intensity of a Secret First Love: A Review of Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth

    On the Crimson Intensity of a Secret First Love: A Review of Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth

    Lucy always assumed she’d end up with her best friend, Martin. She thought her feelings for…

  • Look Deeper into The Well of Loneliness: A Defense of the First Lesbian Novel 

    Look Deeper into The Well of Loneliness: A Defense of the First Lesbian Novel 

    The Well of Loneliness (1928) by British author Radclyffe Hall is controversial in every conceivable way.…

  • Love, Loss, and Longing in Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood

    Love, Loss, and Longing in Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood

    For Toru, memory is fleeting, but the feelings of love and loss that defined his youth…

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