List: Literature | Curated by Sadie Seroxcat

Feb 23, 2025
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M. J. Carson
‘The Glass Hotel’ Holds a Scalpel to Modern LifeEmily St. John Mandel carves tenderly into the fathomless melancholy of American failure
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Alejandro Orradre
You Are a Main Character of ‘The Iliad’ and You Don’t Know ItThe influence of Homer’s work is more relevant than ever
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Tom Barrett
Asexuality and False Allegations in Greek TragedyHow the far-right twist Euripides’ ‘Hippolytus’
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Alejandro Orradre
This is One of the Best Graphic Novel Trilogies and You are Not Ready to Read it.Charles Burns’ three titles compose a psychedelic journey into a world of nightmares within the psyche of the protagonist, exploring past…
Feb 20
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Feb 20
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Marc Barham
‘The Fall’: Suffering, Creativity And FreedomJohn Milton, Lord Byron and Albert Camus
Feb 17
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Feb 17
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Seroxcat’s Salon
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Storyhog
The ‘Problem’ with ShakespeareTo ‘woke’ or not to ‘woke’ … is the wrong question
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Alejandro Orradre
‘The Guest’ or the Tale of the Eternal HustlerEmma Cline’s new novel is a marvelous display of plot designed to be a psychological portrait of a person who seeks to make the most of the…
Feb 15
Feb 15
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Alejandro Orradre
The Book Review — ‘Indignation’Philip Roth treats the reader to a story about anti-war sentiment, family roots and social repression in the USA in the mid-20th century. A…
Feb 12
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Feb 12
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Jane Carr
Breaking and Rebuilding: A Fragmented MemoirA review of Margo Jefferson’s ‘Constructing a Nervous System” (2022)
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Feb 8
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Alejandro Orradre
The Liberating Anguish of ‘On the Calculation of Volume’A story of temporary anguish, in which the power of human relationships shows its true fragility and tragedy, in the first volume of what…
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Feb 8
Elisa Gabbert
Every book I read in 2024, with commentaryI started keeping these notes on my reading in 2015. That means this is my tenth list — ten years is a long time to do anything! In…
Dec 31, 2024
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Dec 31, 2024
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Onur Bayrakceken
Nef’i — The Poet Who Called The Sultan’s Grand Vizier A DonkeyA portrait of Nef’i, the classical Ottoman poet famous for his invectives.
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Feb 4
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M. J. Carson
‘The Plot’ and ‘The Sequel’: Read Them Before Somebody Spoils Them for YouJean Hanff Korelitz offers a two-volume tutorial in thriller writing
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Feb 3
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Marc Barham
Two Great Narratives Of ReentryRevolution, Revenge And Redemption
Feb 3
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Feb 3
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Alejandro Orradre
‘Orbital’: A Fascinating Geography LessonThe novel that won the 2024 Booker Prize is a skilful exercise in existentialism mixed with a cruder experimentation of descriptive…
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Ophelia Writes
‘Babel’ by R.F. Kuang: Its Arguments and Why It’s Not for EverybodyA tale of language, identity, and resistance
Jan 30
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Jan 30
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Alejandro Orradre
The Book Review —  ‘Private Property’Costumbrism story that portrays the upper middle class French society.
Jan 29
Jan 29
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Marc Barham
My Favourite Tales of TransmogrificationChange, Choice, And Challenge
Jan 28
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Jan 28
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Jenna Zark
How You Got That StoryThoughts for the writer seeking it
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Jan 28
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Marc Barham
‘Les Misérables’ (1862) By Victor HugoThe masterpiece that shaped the young man in 1982
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Jan 27
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