For the past few years, almost every time I have scrolled through TikTok — which is multiple times per day, I must admit — I have come across a video by Eli Rallo, perhaps better known by her username...

In her novel “Home Fire,” Kamila Shamsie creatively reimagines Sophocles’ play “Antigone” in the context of British Muslims. Shamsie grew up in the 1970s in the Karachi, Pakistan. Shamsie attended...

“Everything I Know About Love” is a memoir by British journalist and author Dolly Alderton. It diaries her journey of growing up, navigating friendships, love, career, heartbreak and everything in...

Erik Larson’s “Thunderstruck” intertwines the disparate stories of Guglielmo Marconi, an obsessive tinkerer turned scientific magician, and Hawley Crippen, an unsuspecting and sympathetic killer....

Drawing on firsthand accounts, David Grann presents a suspenseful story of shipwreck, anarchy and survival. Set in 1740, Grann’s nonfiction book, “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder,”...

During my CORE Conversations class this semester, we read “Whatever” by Michel Houellebecq. Originally published in French, the book’s original title, “Extension du Domaine de la Lutte,” translates...

In my freshman year of high school, I read “The Assistant” by Bernard Malamud in my English class. What I remember most about this book was not the symbolism or rhetorical devices the author used,...

Whether a part of assigned reading in high school or happened upon by avid readers, J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” is a well-known and highly regarded classic. First published in 1952,...

*Editorial content warning: this piece contains brief mentions of physical violence. As an English major, I pretty much never know when to shut up, whether that’s about movies, television, music or...