Celebrity Book Club
If there’s one thing celebrities love, it's a book club. From some of the more popular celebrity book clubs run by Reese Witherspoon or Oprah Winfrey to other smaller celebrity book clubs run by Dua Lipa,...
Happy Reading! Must-Have Book Recommendations
If there’s one thing to know about me, it’s that I’m obsessed with books. I love reading, am known to have overflowing bookshelves (to be clear, this is because I don’t have enough bookshelves, not...
2023 In The Books: Best Reads Of The Year
Every year I make a strong attempt at sticking through with my New Year’s resolutions, but I always fizzle out six months in. Surprisingly, however, 2023 was the year of following through! As a...
Poetry Analysis: T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
Published in 1922 and widely regarded as one of the greatest poems of the 20th century, “The Waste Land,” by Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot, is the quintessential Modern poem. The poem is composed of a chain...
The Poetry Of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was born on Dec. 10, 1830, in Amherst, Mass. Dickinson—though she only started writing poetry when she was 22—wrote 1,775 poems (Johnson, v). However, in her lifetime only seven were...
An English Major’s Top Three Favorite Reads
Growing up, I have always been an avid reader. Constantly devouring any book I could get my hands on, I’ve found myself fascinated by the different worlds and profound meanings that lie within the pages of...
An Analysis Of Milton’s Epic Poetry in “Lycidas”
“Lycidas” was composed in November of 1637, by John Milton, and is a poetic elegy for Milton’s friend and classmate at Cambridge, Edward King, who passed away in a shipwreck over the Irish Sea. Both...
A Literary Examination of Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time”
“God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time!” “The Fire Next Time,” by James Baldwin, was published in 1963 and comprises two essays. The first essay is a letter Baldwin...
Banned Books: Diving Into “Madame Bovary”
“She was so sad, so very sad, that when you saw her standing in the doorway of her house, you would think you saw a funeral pall hanging in front of the door. What ailed her, it seemed, was a kind of fog...
Hemingway’s Unique Prose Showcased In “The Old Man And The Sea”
When Ernest Hemingway was being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, only one of his novels was directly praised by the Swedish Academy: “The Old Man and the Sea”. The myth of Hemingway, along...