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Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” in many ways, mirrors Harvard’s elitist culture, exposing the often harmful social dynamics that exclusive social spaces create.
At its core, “Heated Rivalry” isn’t just a story about hockey or even queer love. It is a romance working to reconfigure how intimacy, masculinity, and power can function within the real-life institutions it mirrors.
“Raising Hare” is, above all, a reminder that personal growth proceeds at a mysterious pace outside of our control. Who can say how I might be changed tomorrow, what I might learn and discover, or what I could do with a little more love and patience?
Like in Le Guin’s imagined world, Anarres, even when our nation’s foundations are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, authoritarian structures materialize when we forget to reinforce solidarity.
Reading has, and will continue to shape every version of who I am, who I have been, and who I am yet to become. If we want a more thoughtful, joyful, empathetic country, we have to choose reading again.
Women of color are often excluded from literature of the “Madwoman” genre, as coined by writer Ana Hernandez. “Post-Traumatic” by Chantal V. Johnson challenges that norm.
While Leah Litman’s new book “Lawless” tells the story of a Court that has come to stand in stark contrast to the ideal it should embody, the book is much more a critique of conservative jurisprudence than a defense of progressive decisions.
Rapid advancements in technology and artificial intelligence are upending the literary genre. But is stifling the authorial voice in the name of readership and profit a trade-off that we’re ready to make?
