by Kelsey Capps An idea must be honed by counterargument and speculation for it to advance in sophistication, a process that often requires shedding facets of the original premise as logic and preference begin to tamp down the intellectual ash. Topics of Conversation, Miranda Popkey’s debut novel, takes up this…

by Kelsey Capps In December 9th, 2019, The Washington Post published a damning expose called The Afghanistan Papers. Their reportage was the result of years of legwork and legal battles, and revealed what most sentient Americans suspected already — the war in Afghanistan is a failure, not only as a…

by Kelsey Capps Gay women don’t get works of literary fiction. Andre Aciman, James Baldwin, Christopher Isherwood — the list of men who write about gay men and get published is not only substantial, it’s luminary, award-winning even if it’s not, say, the book club’s cup of tea. Queer women…

by Kelsey Capps You won’t be able to say this book is boring. Johannes Anyuru, Swedish author and winner of the August Prize (for this book in fact), is thriller master, and the first page of this fast-paced dystopian novel puts you right in the middle of the action —…

by Kelsey Capps Some life stories are not for the faint of heart. We often dig into memoirs searching for stories of inspiration, tales of grand adventures or political maneuvers that changed history, but in The Light Years greatness is not so simple. …

by Kelsey Capps There’s no better novel to read in the middle of winter than one in which gloom transforms itself into an emotional Spring. Guadalupe Nettel’s After the Winter cuts through the fog by splitting her narrative into intimate, alternating perspectives which cross paths as the novel progresses. t…

The Meaning of Life — And so it ends, our friends. We’ve been producing READING QUIRKS every Wednesday, week by week, for 18 months and we couldn’t be happier about the result. The whole experience has been amazing. Thanks to everybody involved in the project. And thanks to all of you, bookish nerds, who gave us an instant of your attention. We hope we made you smile. Keep an eye out this year, Reading Quirks might be coming to your local bookstore as a proper print book. We’ll keep you updated. In the meantime, you can see all of our comics here.

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