“Survival is insufficient.” Station Eleven, Emily St. Mandel’s 2014 dystopian novel, followed by the HBO series released in 2021, is a case study on how people change, perpetuate, and internalize the art they love.
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Book of the Week is an Opinion culture column created by Keenan Yates ‘23 used to give weekly book recommendations in the form of short blurbs and reviews.
In The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, time and youth seem desirable yet prove to be destructive. The gothic novel begins by introducing Lord Henry Wotton and his friend Basil Hallward conversing while Basil paints one of his masterpieces.
Karl Marx and Irish novelist Sally Rooney walk into a bar and discuss the terms of love and labor, perhaps how they’re one and the same.
The world is like a great abyss, filled with endless opportunities and emotions; because we live in such a precarious, disquieted globe, the disquiet we are surrounded by fails to hush the tumult in our minds and hearts.
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston is a novel I did not expect to be satirical. It is a modernized version of a story about a girl trying to find her place in the world, all the while trying not to fall in love with a ghost.
Out of all the novels I have read, Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow is the most tragic depiction of what it means to be a teenager battling mental health and the tumult of life.
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby is a gruesome and emotional story about two fathers trying to avenge the death of their gay sons.In
In her psychologically riveting novel, Silence, Natasha Preston writes the story about a girl, Oakley Farrell, who suddenly stops talking at the age of five.
When I picked My Dark Vanessa, by Kate Elizabeth Russell off of the shelf, I never expected it to be so unbelievably dark and disturbing.
As much as I love writing about and analyzing books, no amount of words will be sufficient to fully grasp the dark beauty of Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.