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Mallika Vasak
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Published in Books Are Our Superpower

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Normal People and the Politics of Love

Understanding Rooney’s relationships as a political performance — I didn’t appreciate Sally Rooney’s Normal People until I read an articulate analysis. It was one of those books that didn’t particularly move me — the characters, the setting, the plot all struck me as flat. Two young adults navigating adulthood is, of course, predigested: safe, second-hand unabashedly normal. This…

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Normal People and the Politics of Love
Normal People and the Politics of Love
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Published in The Writing Cooperative

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To Become A Good Writer, You Must First Become An Artist

Writing lessons we can learn from Vincent Van Gogh — Writing, for some, for those who do a lot of it, may seem like a mechanical process. A formulaic procedure, a technical exercise. But for those who do it not as a profession, but a pleasurable pursuit, writing takes time, inspiration, and great thought. Writing, for those who truly love…

Writing

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To Become A Good Writer, You Must First Become An Artist
To Become A Good Writer, You Must First Become An Artist
Writing

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Published in Cantor’s Paradise

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Why Mathematics Isn’t Much Different From Religion

It is within human nature to look to things greater than ourselves for answers. Some turn to religion, some turn to mathematics and/or philosophy. Some worship God(s) and pray they will provide us with guidance. Religion is unknowing, but it is a way of knowing in a world in which…

Math

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Why Mathematics Isn’t Much Different From Religion
Why Mathematics Isn’t Much Different From Religion
Math

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Published in Pomegranates

·Feb 4, 2022

Book Review: The Secret History

The night before, when I still had 100 pages left, I was beginning to form a perverse, disturbing awareness of the tenor of the novel that I had before only understood through aesthetics and the absurd. …

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Book Review: The Secret History
Book Review: The Secret History
Book Review

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Published in Pomegranates

·Jan 16, 2022

The Anthropocene Reviewed, Reviewed

When I was in my third year of undergrad in 2019, I took a history class on the Anthropocene. At the end of the class, our professor confessed that he wanted to end on a hopeful note, but didn't know how. Just like the young men in the Young Farmers…

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The Anthropocene Reviewed, Reviewed
The Anthropocene Reviewed, Reviewed
Book Review

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Published in Pomegranates

·Jan 14, 2022

Book Review: Play It As It Lays

I think this is the only book I’ve ever read where I didn’t have a single clue what was going on at all times and yet it still pops back into my consciousness to disturb me. …

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Book Review: Play It As It Lays
Book Review: Play It As It Lays
Book Review

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Published in Books Are Our Superpower

·Nov 4, 2021

Where To Start With Jane Austen

On the romantic master and her revered works — I’ve written before on how I’ve struggled to enjoy the genre of romance: it being predigested, safe, unabashedly normal. Of course, the next natural course of action is to take an entire course of Jane Austen; to read four of the most venerated love stories of all time. Jane Austen…

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Where To Start With Jane Austen
Where To Start With Jane Austen
Books

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Published in Books Are Our Superpower

·Oct 18, 2021

Why Is the Cult of Donna Tartt So Obsessive?

Understanding why Tartt’s novels are revisited, re-read, and renowned — Other than Harry Potter, I know of few fanbases as prodigiously dedicated as Donna Tartt’s. An even more harrowing experience is trying to understand why. Could it be her enigmatic nature? Notoriously reclusive, a mien of a character she would write about? Her writing style? …

Literature

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Why Is the Cult of Donna Tartt So Obsessive?
Why Is the Cult of Donna Tartt So Obsessive?
Literature

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Oct 1, 2021

Five Eats To Spice Up Your Thanksgiving Feast

How to put apple cinnamon, acorn squash, and green beans to good use — As you can probably tell from the publish date of this article, I live in Canada — but it is never too early to start thinking about Thanksgiving. The heavy breath of apples and cinnamon, turkey cooking in the oven for hours, autumn leaves dancing outside the windows. …

Thanksgiving

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Five Eats To Spice Up Your Thanksgiving Feast
Five Eats To Spice Up Your Thanksgiving Feast
Thanksgiving

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Sep 28, 2021

An Ode to Amy March

Amy March has always been great: Little Women (2019) shows us why — When I first read Little Women two years ago, Amy March was the character I loved to hate. She seemed to be Jo’s antithesis: wanting to marry and marry well, as well as a menace to Jo’s aspirations and love interest. …

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An Ode to Amy March
An Ode to Amy March
Books

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Mallika Vasak

Mallika Vasak

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