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Walking away from 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas'
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May 14, 2026 |
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American Pastoral, part 2: The Indigenous American Berserk
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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American Pastoral, part 1: Baby's First Lit Fic
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Thank God for Incognito Mode
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Atomised, part 2: Sympathy for the Incel
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Was the sexual revolution a mistake? (Houellebecq's Atomised, part 1)
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Stefan Zweig's The Royal Game: What's the ultimate desert island book?
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Moby Dick finale: Ahab Derangement Syndrome
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein: Look how they massacred my boy
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Moby Dick, part 2: A conceptual analysis of Whiteness
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Moby Dick, part 1: My name is Ishmael and my special interest is whales
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Crashing out of Gravity's Rainbow: A postmortem of our first DNF
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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DYEL wrapped: Most beloved and hated books of 2025
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow: It's not rocket science
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Murakami's Norwegian Wood: the sadboi and his manic pixie dream girls
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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A Portrait of the Artist: James Joyce on the difference between tasteful nudes and porn
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures: the original stemcels vs shape rotators beef
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Butcher's Crossing: John Williams's rougher cut
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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Borges's Library of Babel: Ctrl + F for meaning
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Anna Karenina FINALE: Revenge of the Reddit Atheists
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Anna Karenina part 2: I am begging you to touch grass
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Tolstoy's Anna Karenina: Real Housewives of Russia
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude: The optimal amount of incest is non-zero
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Everything is Illuminated: Cultural Learnings of Trachimbrod for Make Benefit Glorious Book Club
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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Truth of Fact, Truth of Fiction: Is Ted Chiang a Luddite?
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May 21, 2025 |
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The Dispossessed part 2: Why would capitalism make me do this?
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May 12, 2025 |
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Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed: Real anarchy has never been tried
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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DeLillo's White Noise: psy-opping ourselves on death and po-mo
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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The Odyssey, part 2: Failsons and deadbeat dads
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Emily Wilson's The Odyssey, part 1: Bronze age perversion
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Nikolai Gogol: Cutting your nose to spite the faceless bureaucracy
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Blood Meridian, part 2: It's time for some game theory
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, part 1: A legion of horribles
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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DYEL Christmas party: The most beloved and hated books of 2024
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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The Moviegoer: In which we escape a deep existential malaise
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Banned books: Vladimir Nabokov's infamous Lolita
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle: Autofiction and autofellation
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Ted Chiang's Understand: Intelligence explosions and AI doom
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Chekhov urself before u wreck-ov urself (The Little Trilogy)
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms: War and love
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Crime and Punishment finale: is Dostoevsky...overrated??
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Crime and Punishment, part 2: Three extraordinary men
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Crime and Punishment, part 1: Mister Schizo and the First Trad
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Susanna Clarke's Piranesi: Gaslight gatekeep girlboss
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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The Tragedy of Hamlet: The O.G. annoying theatre kid
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Albert Camus' The Fall: Signalling, scrupulosity, and pathological self-awareness
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Philip K. Dick's paranoid classic Ubik: Fluttering at the windowpane of reality
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis: A Bug's Life
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Frankenstein, part 2: Nature vs nurture
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, part 1: Post-nut clarity and forbidden knowledge
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: The One TRUE Interpretation
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May 26, 2024 |
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The Razor's Edge, part 3: Climbing off the wheel of suffering
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May 17, 2024 |
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The Razor's Edge, part 2: Lay your hands on me Larry
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May 12, 2024 |
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W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, part 1: Nobody loafs like Larry
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May 08, 2024 |
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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, part 3: Was David Foster Wallace a hideous man?
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May 04, 2024 |
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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, part 2: If you can fake sincerity you've got it made
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, part 1: Weaponised therapy-speak
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, part 3: We finally get to the fucking lighthouse
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, part 2: Portrait of the autist as an old man
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, part 1: Skill issue
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Borges' Garden of Forking Paths: a ramble through the multiverse
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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John Williams' sleeper hit Stoner: Finding perfection in mediocrity
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 3: The world is weary of me and I am weary of it
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 2: Post-industrial society and its discontents
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 1: Memeing big fat juicy asses into reality
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Mar 21, 2024 |