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Resisting Obsolescence
Confronted by a government with the power to exile readers into obsolescence, one must question: what…
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Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” Adaptation Barely Warrants the Name
After months of torrential promotion and a whirlwind global press tour, director Emerald Fennell’s long-awaited adaptation…
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Reading for Reading’s Sake: Bill Walton’s Book List and the Joy of Reading in a WALL-E World
Books are finally losing to BookTok. This is the age of abundance in which we are…
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On Exhibitions: Writing About Race
The moral here isn’t simply that writing about race as an author of color is good.…
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Reblog: A Chronically Online Girl’s Take on Mass-Produced TikTok Literature
Cannibalism as a metaphor for love. There are claw marks in everything I’ve ever let go…
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Fabled Fiction: Ella Enchanted
The novel, in its own regard, emphasizes the importance of unification through communication and language, while…
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Queerness and the American Family: A Meditation on Silence
I always thought my family read more like a novel than a television series. We demanded…
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Fixing the Performative Male Reading List
There’s nothing wrong with men reading; to villainize such an action plants the idea that men…
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The Celebrity Memoir
The celebrity memoir is somewhat of a cannibalized genre. There is usually either an existing audience…
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I Don’t Care for Character-Driven Stories Anymore, and You Shouldn’t Either
Forgotten are the rich textures of the threads and patterns that compose a tapestry of tales…
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