Lauren Simpson // Blog Writer The Bluest Eye, the first novel by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, is a compelling piece drawing attention to the expectations of women in regards to beauty through the eyes of a young black girl…
Lauren Simpson // Blog Writer The Reader by Bernhard Schlink was published in Germany in 1995 and in the US in 1997. The story follows a young boy, Michael Berg, who suffers from jaundice, as he meets Hanna, a much…
Alli Armijo // Blog Writer What makes you you? What is it that makes a woman a woman? If such existential questions as these keep you up at night, drag queens Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova have got just the…
Ana Hein // Blog Writer It’s a classic personality test: are you a Meg, Jo, Beth, or Amy? I have pondered over this question at length ever since I first read Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, Little Women, back in…
Ana Hein // Blog Writer Paris at night. A woman – any woman you prefer to imagine, it does not matter who – walks down the street, or gets off the Metro, or exits from a cafe. However she does…
Ana Hein // Blog Writer You’ve been in this scenario before. You’re on the T. It’s packed – you’re probably on the redline. You’re standing smack in the center of the human version of a sardine can, and if one…
Ana Hein // Blog Writer Normally, buying a book for a six-hour plane ride is a good idea, but when you’re already bringing three books on said plane (and have about another twelve in a checked bag), the addition of…
Kyle Labe//Blog Writer In Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, the third installment in Elena Ferrante’s triumphant Neapolitan Novels, the narrator lists for a page everything she wants to do away with, everything on which she’d like to “spit”:…
Jonathan Smith // Blog Writer Humans have always had an insatiable appetite for compelling and relatable stories. Philosophers and writers alike have often tried to categorize the essence of an enduring story, with one of the oldest and most popular…
Alice Lynch//Blog Writer It isn’t often that a book can keep you up through the night. It’s even rarer that it keeps you up through the next, or the next, or the next. But A. J. Finn’s debut novel, The…
