Monthly Recs

Monthly Recs: February 2024

Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin Perhaps no other author has painted a whole portrait of a young man as James Baldwin has in Go Tell It on the Mountain. Baldwin begins and ends the story with John Grimes, the stepson of a violently abusive Baptist preacher, on the day of his […]

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Best of the Year

Peyton’s Best of 2022

Movie I’ve already talked this year about how much I love Nope, so I want to highlight a favorite from before the blog started: Everything Everywhere All At Once, written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. This movie rightly took spring of 2022 by storm: it is an explosion of talent and creativity, […]

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Monthly Recs

Monthly Recs: June 2022

Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya June has been an eternity. While I have been mostly relaxing on my summer break, it has been a bit difficult to enjoy it, what with the casual crumbling of democracy every other week in the old U.S.A. What I have indulged in this month was some much-needed escapism. I […]

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