“Only connect!” proclaims E.M. Forster in the epigraph of “Howards End” (1910). “Only connect!” expounds the character Margaret Schlegel halfway through the novel. “Only … connect?” I...
CW: spoilers, mentions of death, age-gap relationships, and chronic pain
In the spring of 2015, Irish author Sally Rooney reflected on her time as the top competitive debater in Europe in...
Alongside the textbooks and scholarly titles most of us will encounter at some point in our college career, Clapp Library now holds a diverse and expanding collection of recreational reading (aka “Rec...
On the evening of Thursday, Sept. 12, Professor Kellie Carter Jackson and Dr. Chipo Dendere of Wellesley College's Africana Studies department sat down at Wellesley Books to discuss Professor Carter Jackson's...
Malinda Lo ’96 worked on her latest novel for basically a decade.
In the acknowledgments of “A Scatter of Light,” Lo writes that the novel was conceptualized in 2012 and that she began writing it...
Welcome (or welcome back) to Books Before Boys, a misnomer of a book review column (“Books Before Literally Anyone Because I’m Aromantic and Asexual” just doesn’t quite have the same ring to it)...
This article contains spoilers for “These Violent Delights” and “Our Violent Ends.” And for Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” and “As You Like It,” I guess.
The last time I reviewed a...
The first time I met E.B. Bartels ’10, she was guest lecturing in my first-year writing class. I had just gotten the idea for “Dear Wendy” a cool two days prior, having sent my first shaky queries...
I was a teenager when I first really thought about the fact that I am going to die someday. I know that’s a little late to have that realization, but I had been fortunate enough to not have any deaths...
Do you remember the 21st night of September? Because Barrett Bloom does.
“See You Yesterday” is my fifth Rachel Lynn Solomon novel. I can’t seem to stop reading her rom-coms; they always seem to...
Let me set a scene for you.
It’s 2018. I am 16 years old, at the start of my junior year of high school. I still use Tumblr as my main social media platform. A black-and-white webcomic keeps on...
Content warning: mention of pedophilia in review of “This May End Badly,” discussions of sexual content in review of “Mistakes Were Made.”
I’ve had a lot of advanced review copies sitting on...
