Index

Below you’ll find a list of our published material, organized by book analyzed or discussed in the post (this list is not comprehensive; books that get short mentions or quick recommendations are not included here — to go through all our posts, visit the archive).

• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  American Gods (Gaiman’s Version)

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  Literary Explorations of Mental Illness

• Borne by Jeff Vandermeer
  Being Borne by

  haley larsen, phd

• Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar
  What Makes a Book a 'Classic'?

• Dune by Frank Herbert
  Science Fiction and the Legacy of Colonialism

• Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
  Recognizing the Narrative, Part I: Palestine, as told by Isabella Hammad
  Recognizing the Narrative, Part II: Edward Said and the importance of criticism

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  Mary Shelley: Mother of Speculative Fiction

• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  Double, Double, Foil and Trouble: Doppelgangers in Literature

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  The Handmaids and the Hanged Maids
  Margaret Atwood’s Mythologies

• His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
  His Dark Materials: Curiosity and the Quest for Truth

• Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami
  Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

• The Humans by Matt Haig
  The Alien Truth about Lying

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
  The Hunchback of Notre Dame: An Urban Gothic Masterpiece

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  The Hero’s Journey, The Heroine’s Journey

• The Illness Lesson by Clare Beams
  The Birds and the Books

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  Jane Eyre's Red Room
  First Person Narration in Books: When Does it Work?
  Double, Double, Foil and Trouble: Doppelgangers in Literature
  Women on Women: Female Friendships in Literature and Media

• The Likeness by Tana French
  Double, Double, Foil and Trouble: Doppelgangers in Literature

• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
  Art, Aliens, and Anthropology

• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
  Literary Explorations of Mental Illness

• The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
  Recognizing the Narrative, Part I: Palestine, as told by Isabella Hammad

• The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
  The Handmaids and the Hanged Maids
  Margaret Atwood’s Mythologies

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  Piranesi and its Layers
  The Liminality of Piranesi

• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  We Didn't Start the Fire

• The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
  Roberto Bolaño: Author, Poet, and... Misogynist?

• The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
  Double, Double, Foil and Trouble: Doppelgangers in Literature

• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

  What Do We Want From Pandemic Novels?
  It’s About Time!
  The Multiverse of Emily St. John Mandel

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  The Secret History, Dark Academia, and Academic Elitism

• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  The Sympathizer - Was the TV Series Better?

• They Called Us Exceptional by Prachi Gupta
  Rewriting the Narrative

• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
  Uglies by Scott Westerfeld: Beauty and Evolution

• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  The Meaning of the Looking Glass in Wide Sargasso Sea
  When Everything is a Symbol, What Happens to the Plot? Reflecting on Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea