meikuree

(a simple list for now due to time constraints, although I do want to review some of these sometime and add thoughts. feel free to reply if you've heard of any of these or want to chat about them!)

short stories

Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead by Carmen Maria Machado
Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong

and a bunch of stories I discovered from

chocochipbiscuit's rec list -- thank you for the good fiction!

Rabbit Test by Samantha Mills
Unname Me at the Altar by Ashaye Brown
Skin by Isha Karki
The Storyteller by Rhea Roy

books/novels

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews
The Old Capital by Kawabata Yasunari
Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto

journal articles and essays

The Class Origins of Zionist Ideology by Stephen Halbrook (1972), published in Journal of Palestine Studies
This Concerns Everyone by James Butler (on the UK care crisis)
The Luddites of Hollywood by Gavin Mueller (on the WGA strikes)
brief Brandon Taylor and C Pam Zhang interview in The Guardian
the virtues of the boring draft from brandon taylor's substack, a craft essay where he discusses balancing disclosure and mystery and the principle of trying to bore your readers
This article on earthquake adaptation in Tokyo, which I found interesting largely for how normal(ised) life with earthquakes is there and all the ways people adapt to the possibility of disaster
Humbert Humbert and the Kids These Days: On Teaching Lolita in a High School Classroom by Benjamin Seigle (2017): read this months ago, actually, courtesy of firstroad; adding it anyway because it was a thought-provoking gem