This morning, I sat down at my desk, ready to write about the upcoming novels I’m excited for– gifts, if you will, to help me get through the long, lingering months of February and March. Continue reading Upcoming Novels, Snowstorms & the Infinite Oddity of the Human Condition
And one question that comes to me in waves, along with grief, is this: How do we make sense of an absence that remains perpetually present? Continue reading On Presence of Absence, Grief, and Magical Thinking
The world needs individuals who are unafraid to question, challenge, and think independently—a seemingly silent yet potent form of activism. Continue reading “For the Love of the Books” & of Resistance
This is my third attempt to sit down and write an academic post on J.M. Coetzee’s 1999 novel Disgrace, and it gives me joy that I am not writing it. Continue reading Rilke, Joy, and a Spring Morning That Feels Like Fall
In these trying times, there may be attempts to take advantage of your generosity and grief. Here are some reputable ways to help Turkey and Syria. Continue reading On Turkey & Syria: How You Can Help
What is not to love about a postcolonial novel that complicates the concepts of “victory” and “heroism,” inviting questions about whose victory, whose hero, and whose version of events–whose (hi)story is being told? Continue reading Decolonizing History & Reclaiming the Narrative: Leila Aboulela’s Latest Novel River Spirit
The opposite of death is not life, I don’t think–it is wonder. My grandpa’s words “I don’t want to die” reverberated until they did not. Continue reading Existential Threats & Good Books | 2022 in Review
Wolf’s analysis is curious, and one with which we are familiar. Does the experiment on whether love is blind ultimately fail then? Is it bound to fail each time? Continue reading Is Love Truly Blind?: Love and Beauty, or the Lack Thereof
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