Books That Feel Like Home

on "Anne of Green Gables"

Nov 15 • 

Ramya Yandava

12

2

3

October 2025

Everyone Is Nostalgic and No One Is in Love

On not seeing the present for the past

Oct 31 • 

Ramya Yandava

15

10

2

The Garden of Edie

"Grey Gardens" at 50

Oct 4 • 

Ramya Yandava

8

5

1

September 2025

American Innocence

"The Golden Bowl" and "The Age of Innocence"

Sep 26 • 

Ramya Yandava

13

7

5

August 2025

No Cap

on all-lowercase internet writing

Aug 23 • 

Ramya Yandava

27

12

7

We Need Editors, Not Algorithms

gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss? good.

Aug 8 • 

Ramya Yandava

23

6

12

The Light Side of the Soul

on Charles Dickens' "Pickwick Papers"

Aug 2 • 

Ramya Yandava

17

4

13

July 2025

Tell, Don't Show: A Translation from Euripides' Medea

murder, violence, and the power of off-stage action

Jul 19 • 

Ramya Yandava

15

7

2

Friday Frivolity no. 36: A Trip to an Elbow

Cape Girl Summer, Wilfred Owen, berry-picking, and conch pearls

Jul 11 • 

Ramya Yandava

15

11

6

June 2025

The Stork and the Threesome

What makes a life—and an novel—meaningful?

Jun 27 • 

Ramya Yandava

10

4

May 2025

Friday Frivolity no. 35: Some Reflections on Furniture

and Beethoven and oysters and hot cockles

May 30 • 

Ramya Yandava

14

1

3

Alcaics; Observations from a Picnic; Gray Rain

melodies in gladness for the light

May 17 • 

Ramya Yandava

12

2