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).
If you’d rather browse by topic, check out our table of contents.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
American Gods (Gaiman’s Version)The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Literary Explorations of Mental IllnessBorne by Jeff Vandermeer
Being Borne byCuckold by Kiran Nagarkar
What Makes a Book a 'Classic'?Dune by Frank Herbert
Science Fiction and the Legacy of ColonialismFrankenstein by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley: Mother of Speculative FictionThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaids and the Hanged Maids
Margaret Atwood’s MythologiesHis Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
His Dark Materials: Curiosity and the Quest for TruthThe Humans by Matt Haig
The Alien Truth about LyingThe Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: An Urban Gothic MasterpieceThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Hero’s Journey, The Heroine’s JourneyThe Illness Lesson by Clare Beams
The Birds and the BooksJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Women on Women: Female Friendships in Literature and MediaThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Art, Aliens, and AnthropologyThe Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Literary Explorations of Mental IllnessThe Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaids and the Hanged Maids
Margaret Atwood’s MythologiesPiranesi by Susanna Clarke
Piranesi and its Layers
The Liminality of PiranesiSea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
What Do We Want From Pandemic Novels?
It’s About Time!
The Multiverse of Emily St. John MandelThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Secret History, Dark Academia, and Academic ElitismThe Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer - Was the TV Series Better?They Called Us Exceptional by Prachi Gupta
Rewriting the NarrativeUglies by Scott Westerfeld
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld: Beauty and Evolution