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Lately, I keep having this recurring disembodied vision where I am floating in a large calm body of water, Ophelia style.

Jun 15 •

April 2025

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There is a scene in the underrated 2000s rom com Confessions of a Shopaholic where the titular shopaholic, Rebecca Bloomwood, squints at a credit card…

Apr 16 •

This summer, my sister is having a baby, which means that for the first time, I will be an aunt.

Apr 14 •

February 2025

When I was an undergraduate, I took a comparative literature seminar where we read, among other introductory works of literary theory, T.S. Eliot’s 1944…

Feb 25 •

January 2025

I went to see Babygirl on Christmas Day.

Jan 2 •

November 2024

“I know they accuse me of arrogance, and perhaps misanthropy, and perhaps of madness,” declares the narrator at the start of Borges’s short story “The…

Nov 19, 2024 •

September 2024

The first great divorce novel doesn’t actually feature a divorce at all.

Sep 29, 2024 •

Sally Rooney and Chantal Akerman

Sep 24, 2024 •

At the start of Spare, his much maligned memoir, Harry Windsor, formerly a member of the British royal family, quotes Faulkner in his epigraph: “The…

Sep 4, 2024 •

August 2024

From Miriam by Kate Riley

Aug 30, 2024 •

Love and a cough

Aug 8, 2024 •

June 2024

The Virgin Plot

Love and a cough

Jun 22, 2024 •

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