Monthly Archives: November 2025

This was fun, though maybe a touch longer than it needed to be. It’s about a college student trying to write an essay for class, and it does brilliantly capture the peculiarities of student life; being isolated and slightly outside of time and absorbed in various emotional dramas. Wanting to be a genius. How theContinueContinue reading “Practice, Rosalind Brown”

I’m currently reading Sarah Mesle’s awesome book Reasons and Feelings with a bunch of colleagues (you know me, I love a book club) and one of the (many) cool things about it is that it makes you think about the different styles and modalities of sharing ideas, and their varying durations and speeds. Lectures areContinueContinue reading “Azadi, Arundhati Roy”

NOTE: Forgive me if I’m repeating myself — I could have sworn that I posted about this book when I read it in SEPTEMBER, but it seems like I didn’t? But I’m feeling such deja vu as I’m typing, I feel like I *must* have said this before? It’s that point of the semester, friends.ContinueContinue reading “TOAF, Renee Gladman”

I think it is almost 2 years ago now that I signed up for a ceramics class with my dear child, and gradually realized that I was far more interested in making pottery than he was, and that I could in fact just sign up for a class on my own. I quickly became kindContinueContinue reading “Old in Art School, Nell Painter”

This is an absolute stunner. Enthralling, complex, surprising at every turn. I actually don’t want to say too much about it because the gradual unfolding is such a pleasure, but the rough sketch is that it’s a novel about a South African family designated by law as Coloured, fighting Apartheid while being internally riven byContinueContinue reading “My Son’s Story, Nadine Gordimer”