“The Song of Achilles” is a novel written by Madeline Miller and published in 2012. It is a sweet and sorrowful retelling of Homer’s “Iliad,” detailing the love story between the demigod Achilles and his companion, Patroclus, from their childhood together to the…
Published in May 2020, Eric Weiner’s “The Socrates Express” is an adventurous travelogue and intricate guide to using ancient philosophy to better our lives. The book notes, “All philosophers, like all teenagers, are misunderstood.”
Weiner divulges in his urge…
In my ongoing goal as a straight, cis woman to read more LGBTQIA+ literature, I read a novel that was an exceptionally beautiful portrayal of what it means to love, and to lose.
“Call Me By Your Name” by André Aciman, published in 2007, depicts the summer…
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I am a straight, cis woman, and I aim to learn about different life experiences through the literature I consume. Most of that literature is valuable and teaches me about the experiences of people who are different from me.
However, in my goal to…
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Published in 2015, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me” is a letter from Coates to his teenage son detailing what it is like to be Black in America.
A select group of American people have always decided where…
There is a reason “Parasite” has won a plethora of awards: the film is the year 2019’s best.
From winning the Academy Awards for best picture, best director, best screenplay and best film not in the English language to a Golden Globe for best foreign-language film…
“Loveless” by Alice Oseman, published in 2020, is a coming-of-age novel that tells the story of 18-year-old Georgia Warr’s journey of self-discovery.
Georgia has always been obsessed with the idea of love, but has never felt any romantic or sexual feelings for…
Gender has always been fluid, though it has not always been recognized as such. Today, we now recognize and understand that gender is a spectrum, while sex is biological, but has social contexts.
This topic is sometimes difficult for individuals to address, but…
“The Woman Warrior” by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston published in 1976 is a unique story, combining both autobiographical and fictional elements, which creates a novel that is both enlightening and fluid.
Readers may notice a familiar folktale in…
In discussions of feminism, many forms of entertainment are accessible methods for which individuals may educate themselves. One of these forms of often accessible, but educational, methods are novels.
For many critics, Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were…