Category Archives: Article Writing

I’ve grown out of Harry Potter – and that’s okay

I’m a millennial, and part of the Harry Potter generation: Sorcerer’s Stone was released in the US when I was seven, and the final film came out the summer before my final year in college. It’s a series that’s always been part of my life – and recently I realized I don’t need them anymore. TheContinue reading “I’ve grown out of Harry Potter – and that’s okay”

Pick up your next J-horror read with my list at Unbound Worlds

My first piece for Unbound Worlds is an installment in their So You Want to Read series: Ghost stories have been part of Japanese literature since the Heian period, from 794 to 1185, and modern Japanese horror is more accessible for English-language readers than ever before. Focusing on psychological horror and frequently incorporating folk religion elementsContinue reading “Pick up your next J-horror read with my list at Unbound Worlds”

Drop what you’re doing and go buy Ann Leckie’s PROVENANCE

Maybe I’m being a bit dramatic. But I’m also not. Provenance marks a return to the universe of Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy, which began in 2013 with the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Provenance is similarly centered around a plot of intergalactic political intrigue, following a young woman who’s frankly too inexperienced to navigate the situation she’s put herself in.Continue reading “Drop what you’re doing and go buy Ann Leckie’s PROVENANCE”

I struggled with the most recent volume of Love at Fourteen

Love at Fourteen has been one of my favorite ongoing series to review, but Volume 6 was difficult for me: An extremely uncomfortable aspect of Volume 6 is the continued emphasis on romances and crushes between middle school students and the adults in their lives, in particular between students and their teachers. Students having crushesContinue reading “I struggled with the most recent volume of Love at Fourteen”