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No One Is Talking About This book by Patricia Lockwood resting on a soft fabric surface beside a smartphone and coffee mug, symbolizing internet culture and modern digital life

No One Is Talking About This | Patricia Lockwood | 2021 | Book Review

No One Is Talking About This Book Review There is a temptation, when talking about No One Is Talking About This, to call it a novel about social media and leave it at that. The book certainly invites that description. Its protagonist spends much of her life online. She scrolls endlessly, follows arguments she barely Read more…

Come and Get It book featured image showing Kiley Reid’s paperback on a minimalist marble surface with coins, a notebook, and a pen in a soft editorial still-life setting.

Come and Get It | Kiley Reid | 2024 | Book Review

Come and Get It Book Review: Kiley Reid Writes the Kind of Social Discomfort That Lingers I kept waiting for something dramatic to happen while reading Come and Get It. A betrayal. A confrontation. Some huge emotional explosion that would finally release all the tension the novel quietly builds from page to page. It never Read more…

A paperback copy of Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” lying slightly tilted on a wooden table beside a coffee cup and a white flower, captured in soft daylight. The 304-page book’s pink title text stands out against the classical portrait cover. Featured image for the My Year of Rest and Relaxation review.

My Year of Rest and Relaxation | Book Review | Ottessa Moshfegh | 2018

My Year of Rest and Relaxation Review: Sleeping Through the Chaos of Modern Life It’s rare to find a psychological fiction novel that captures the emptiness of modern existence with such precision. Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation does exactly that — and in doing so, it divides readers just as deeply as Read more…