Between the Pages
Essays and notes on reading craft, theory in practice, and cross-cultural thinking.
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.
On Being Memory
Thinking about memory, consciousness, identity, and stories as the palimpsests of ourselves. But mostly about my grandparents and Bruce Willis.
Harlem Duet: Singing past ambivalence in Ellison's 'Invisible Man'
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man reveals a world where identity is shrouded, and voices are forced into silence. It’s a journey into the hidden language of the unseen.
Mornings are for Plotting: An Ode to that Spot on the Ceiling
A hello world of sorts, and an explaination that clarifies little
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