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Have you ever read a book by a woman writer and felt like she was speaking directly to your soul? Like she somehow knew the exact weight you carry, the precise shape of your unspoken thoughts? There’s something almost unsettling about how women’s literature can cut through centuries and still feel urgently and intimately relevant.
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We shouldn’t have to wait until a woman writer is gone to take her seriously. There’s a quiet tragedy threaded through the history of women’s literature. So many of the voices we now praise were never fully heard in their own time. Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 poems—fewer than a dozen were published while she
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There’s a scene in Sally Rooney’s Normal People where Marianne refreshed her Facebook feed obsessively, scrolling through images of her classmates living what appears to be perfect lives while she sits alone in her room, feeling more disconnected than ever. It’s a moment that perfectly captures our modern paradox. We’re more connected than any generation
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Gone Girl. The Girl on the Train. Sharp Objects. Big Little Lies. What do all these bestsellers have in common? They’re told by people you absolutely cannot trust to tell you the truth. And we’re completely obsessed with them. Somewhere along the way, we stopped wanting our narrators to be reliable. Instead, we started craving
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There’s a moment in every young person’s life when the world reveals itself to be smaller, shabbier, and more disappointing than they ever imagined. James Joyce captures this universal experience with devastating precision in Araby, a short story that reads like a love letter to lost innocence—written in the bitter…
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We all carry an invisible weight. Some days it’s manageable—a dull ache hanging in the backdrop of our lives. Other days it feels crushing, like we’re drowning under a mass of our fears, regrets, and responsibilities. Tim O’Brien understood this better than most when he wrote The Things They Carried, a story that’s supposedly about
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Have you ever lain in bed, staring at the ceiling at 3 AM, wondering if you’ll ever sleep again? If so, you’re definitely not alone. Insomnia has quietly become a major issue in our society, and the numbers are pretty staggering. According to a 2018 study, between 2002 and 2012, insomnia symptoms jumped from 15.6%
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Have you ever had one of those moments where something completely shifts your perspective? I recently came across Andrew Braaksma’s essay, Some Lessons From The Assembly Line, and it hit me like a ton of bricks. Here’s a college student who spent his summers working brutal 12-hour shifts in factories, and the experience completely transformed
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“The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow…”— Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” When I first read The Yellow Wallpaper, I was struck by how claustrophobic it felt. A woman slowly unraveling in a nursery-turned-prison, haunted by a pattern on the wall…
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Reading Power Through Marxist and Ethnic Studies Lenses Literature has always been a mirror reflecting the power structures that shape our world. When we examine classic and contemporary works through the focused lenses of Marxist and Ethnic Studies theories, we uncover not just stories, but entire systems of oppression and resistance. Two works, separated by
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