In my experience, the cluster of days between one year’s end and another’s beginning are ripe with reflection. I can’t stop myself from cataloguing lo...
Dystopian YA fiction brings readers into settings that feel simultaneously distant and close. The adolescent characters in this genre fight for their ...
When the temperature and timing are right, some reading experiences can feel like fever dreams; narrative immersions that keep you up late into the ni...
Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of self-harm, violence, abuse, and suicide. As a reader who occasionally enjoys judging books by th...
“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?” For over a century, t...
What kind of spring is this, / Where there are no flowers and / The air is filled with a miserable smell? – Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost The above p...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that we often judge books by their cover. In the case of Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: T...
If you ask a PhD candidate studying English literature to name a book that had a profound impact on her life, chances are you’ll receive an impressive...
Who am I? Why I am here? Why did it take me so long to get this thirtieth episode up and running? What is the self? What is human consciousness? Are w...
Content Warning: Please be advised that this episode features discussions of sexual assault, rape culture, victim blaming, and uses language that some...