Marlowe Granados’s “Happy Hour” Is An Anti-Capitalist Fairy Tale
When I last spoke to Marlowe Granados, Toronto, like the rest of the Northeast, was wading through a thick haze. I imagine not much changed for those lucky enough to…
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We Should Burn All the Kindles
Fifteen years before COVID-19, novelist Richard Powers wrote that we were living in the middle of an epidemic. The disease wasn’t physical, but it was very real. It was the…
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What’s the Point of “Fake Accounts”?
One of the best sentences in Fake Accounts stands on its own, separated from the narrator’s musings on dating apps and the 2010s: “At some point you have to admit…
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Why I Love Chick Lit
I’ll be honest—I love chick lit. Those identical pastel paperbacks, the spunky and financially successful heroines, the magical endings straight out of an R-rated Hallmark movie. Chick lit generally encompasses…
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The Land of Niche Ships
You lovingly leaf through wizarding worlds in early adolescence and think there’s no devotion purer than the one you have for your beloved boy wizard, until a few years later…
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