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100 Years of Solitude

June 27, 2022

Content note: This article contains references to sexual assault, including child abuse, and incest Originally published on The Solute I first read One Hundred Years of Solitude the summer I graduated high school, which I hope we can all agree is the perfect time to read it. I had discovered Gabriel García Márquez’s short story “A Very Old […]

Intrusive Thoughts

Especially For Girls! But Also Universal!

March 23, 2022

The Especially For Girls line was useful but also a demonstration of a real problem in media.

Intersectional Femivision

Kiki’s Delivery Service: A Look at Purpose, Hardship, and Perseverance

March 13, 2022

When and how we ask kids to grow up

Year of the Month

The Same Thing We Do Every Night: Bedtime for Frances

October 15, 2021

Bedtime is at 7:00 pm. When Frances goes to sleep is another question entirely.

Celebrating the Living

Tabitha King

October 4, 2020

Without Tabitha King, there would be no Stephen King, but she's also an accomplished writer and his most important reader.

Intersectional Femivision

The Need for A Bechdel Test for Books and Why I think that Gail Carriger’s PARASOL PROTECTORATE Series Would Still Pass

March 19, 2020

A look at Bechdel Tests and Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate Series

Celebrating the Living

Stephen King

October 13, 2019

Stephen King is more than just a horror writer, but there's nothing wrong with being a horror writer.

Year of the Month

More Than they Seem: du Maurier and Jamaica Inn

September 12, 2019

Secrets, smuggling and much more.

Girl Trouble, by Holly Goddard Jones

July 2, 2019

These short stories are thoughtful and wrenching.

Year of the Month

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

May 3, 2019

Death comes for us all, sooner or later.

The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith

May 31, 2018

Murder for introverts.