4 Olympian Sized Reads If You Want To Feel Like A Champion

These past two weeks have felt like I’m back in 8th grade gym class again – a mixture of both outward awe at what other people’s bodies can do and inward disappointment in my own. It’s also similar in that it’s the only time in my life that I will ever care about things like […]

Seven Books To Read When You’re Sick

When your head hurts, your stomach aches, fever spikes, or you’re just plain not feeling well, what do you turn to? Anything that’ll make you feel better. Soft blankets, soup, and a good book. As I’m sick right now, I started thinking about what books make me feel better, with a rather simple criteria: Does […]

Books Inspired By The Pulitzer Prize Winners

You guys, today is so exciting. Pulitzer Prize day always gives me a spate of new material to read, and usually leads me down a rabbit hole of great reporting, alongside a few new books, plays, and collections of poetry that I have to buy. As I haven’t read all of these, I’ve just done […]

World Poetry Day: 5 Poems That Have Built Me

I didn’t used to like poetry. I mean, I did, in that detached way that particularly pretentious kids did – I liked it because nobody else liked it. But I didn’t really have any favorite poets, anything that I connected to. Then, however, I read a fragment of Lord Byron in another book – […]

6 Indomitable Fictional Women For International Women’s Day

I’m sure you know an indomitable woman. Perhaps you are one. Literature has always been one of the greatest windows to real women in media – with the paucity of good roles for women and women of color in film and the over sexualization that permeates the music industry, women are canned and pressed and […]

Thanksgiving Movies To Watch When You Can’t Stand Your Relatives Anymore

So the turkey’s been stuffed and you’ve bought a bunch of two dollar toasters at WalMart. And now you’re faced with two more days with your family. Patience is wearing thin, old arguments are resurfacing and you’ve run out of alcohol. Lucky for you, I’ve got a small selection of good Thanksgiving movies (and TV […]

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