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December 2024

5 Very Short Reads to Expand Your Literary World Before 2025
Bold, thought-provoking, and genuinely pleasurable books for your end-of-year list, from criticism to fiction. All under 170 pages.
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Ellen Yang
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You Can't Bullet Point a Book
You're not in English class anymore. Why use apps or AI to cheat yourself out of getting the full experience of literature?
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Ellen Yang
Goodreads: The Platform for Radicalization or Just Another Reading List?
Maybe we are reading too much into what someone reads. Or not.
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Ellen Yang
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Reading List: "To Go to Lvov" Instead of Working "Bullshit Jobs"
A poem, two essays, and a game in my new featured series, “Reading List.”
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Ellen Yang

November 2024

October 2024

Building the Authority of a Critic Online
Perhaps looking toward literary criticism and its commandments can help Substack with its own "copying" crisis.
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Ellen Yang
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Reading People Reading Sally Rooney: Literary Voyeurism and the Decentralized Critic
In the release of "Intermezzo," we are no longer just consuming literature—we are consuming each other.
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Ellen Yang
"Stoner" and the Forgotten Point of Higher Education
How one book reminds us of what college ought to be
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Ellen Yang
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September 2024

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