Reading as a practice, not a productivity hack.
The Readist is a personal, evolving project by a working scholar. It's a place for slow reading, cross-cultural thinking, and serious conversation—without algorithms, deadlines, or performance.
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Working thoughts, field notes, reflections, and essays—written alongside research, teaching, and travel.
Reading Against the Machine: Brave New World and Foucault’s Rank and File
Why is Brave New World still so relevant in 2026? Explore Aldous Huxley’s dystopia alongside Michel Foucault’s theory of disciplinary power, algorithmic control, consumer culture, and modern political life.
The Invisible Discipline: Why Literature Didn't Make the List
David Orr's 'Earth in Mind' makes a brilliant case for interdisciplinary education while committing the very sin it diagnoses.
Cross-Cultural Reading Lab: Travel as Literary Criticism
Using travel to challenge Western literary assumptions. The Cross-Cultural Reading Lab practices secular criticism through displaced, embodied reading in foreign spaces.
How to Read Theory: 8 Strategies for Understanding Complex Texts
Learn how to start reading theory with these 8 practical tips. From choosing the right tools to understanding historical context, make complex texts accessible.
What We Call a String: On Love, Dependency, and the Self
The point isn’t whether Jane Eyre ends happily. It’s whether we know what binds us in the first place.
Reflections on the Road to The Road
I'm still compiling my thoughts on this novel. Feels a bit like deep therapy.
The Cross Cultural Reading Lab
Reading across difference, on purpose
The Lab is a living research practice devoted to reading beyond one's habitual borders—across cultures, languages, traditions, and ways of making meaning.
Here you'll find field notes from reading while traveling, reflections on translation, essays on cross-cultural interpretation, and experiments in method.
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