The narrator of Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much is the kind of person who […]
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The team at Make Use Of has some advice for a problem that has plagued […]
The Aosawa Murders, by Riku Onda
There are many layers to Riku Onda’s hypnotic novel, The Aosawa Murders (seamlessly translated by […]
The Lightness, by Emily Temple
Trigger warning for child abuse. One of the trickiest lessons I’ve helped to teach budding […]
The Anarchy, by William Dalrymple
As I read The Anarchy, a history of how the East India Company came to […]
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Isaac Asimov was a lech. (LitHub) Chelsea Davis reflects on the lure of islands in […]
Broken People, by Sam Lansky
One-hit-wonder writer Sam lives a life of twenty-first century of cynicism and mental malaise. He’s […]
The Heavens, by Sandra Newman
A while back—I’m not sure when exactly—a student asked me why Shakespeare was such a […]
This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
We never learn how long the war between the Agency and the Garden has been […]