I was given a copy of Steven Rowley’s debut novel Lily and the Octopus in a book swap over the 2025 winter holidays. I’d never heard of it, but I already had Rowley on my TBR as I’d heard rave reviews about his better-known title The Guncle, and was therefore excited to read it. It broke my heart. Lily and the Octopus is a gorgeously and creati...

After an extremely long wait—I watched season one (for the first time) in 2023—season two of Interview with the Vampire finally made its way to a streaming platform I have access to. I was so excited to finally watch it because I adored the first season. It is a riveting character portrait that explores a handful of fascinatingly multifaceted people whose vampir...

Cinderella is Dead is a feminist, sapphic reinterpretation of the classic Cinderella story. Protagonist Sophia lives in a kingdom that glorifies the fairy tale. Girls are raised to aspire to Cinderella’s happily ever after: to attend to their superiors hand and foot, to attend the king’s mandatory ball, and to eventually submit to the husbands that choose them. ...

In 2024, a coworker recommended that I read Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson. It was the best book recommendation I’ve been given in some time, and it’s certainly a recom...

Over the past month and a half I’ve written far more about the finale of Stranger Things than it perhaps deserved. I’m genuinely baffled at how embarrassingly it fumbled the ending. After four and a half fantastic seasons and a run of pre-finale interviews that all but promised that the team knew what fans needed from them and how important it was to not betray the c...