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Rosé and Bruno Mars looking cool as heck as they stare down the camera in a still from their music video for "APT."

Meet Me at the APT.

By Maddi Chilton • January 9th, 2025

I cannot overstate how overwhelming it felt to watch this music video after years of only getting to see Rosé in the middle of the K-pop machinery.

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A lonesome two-lane road, illuminated by headlights, stretches into the dark distance.

A Girl Drives Home Alone at Night

By Maddi Chilton • November 6th, 2024

In the white glow of headlights there’s nothing but waste.

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A top-down view of a bowl of uncooked orzo pasta resting on a marble counter.

Consider the Orzo

By Maddi Chilton • October 3rd, 2024

I am the least hungry when I’m stressed, or sad, or sick, when something has gone wrong elsewhere in my life and my stomach suffers for it.

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Detail from the cover of Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos featuring a cropped photo of a woman's blue eye and a large black dot evoking a period at the end of a sentence.

Booking It (Vol. 2)

By Maddi Chilton • August 6th, 2024

The thrilling conclusion to Maddi’s quest to read the entirety of the International Booker Prize longlist.

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A triplet of the covers for the books What I'd Rather Not Think About, Lost on Me, and Undiscovered.

Booking It (Vol. 1)

By Maddi Chilton • May 30th, 2024

Maddi sets out to read the International Booker Prize longlist, 13 books from around the world that were translated into English within the last year.

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Wiktor Szulski, the protagonist of The Thaumaturge, stands moodily holding an open tome while a terrifying creature looms behind him.

Empathetic Magic

By Maddi Chilton • May 2nd, 2024

Wiktor’s entire mode of interaction with the world is one of applied empathy, concentrated and made into magic through the indefinite occultisms of thaumaturgy.

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The cracked spine of The Modern Library paperback edition of Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Lost in Translation

By Maddi Chilton • April 2nd, 2024

I’m reading War and Peace for the first time, and probably the only time, and I’d like to do it right.

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Cover art for Rollerdrome shows main character Kara Hassan wearing her skate helmet and staring stoically at the viewer. Behind her, a busy scene from the roller arena fills the frame.

And the Crowd Goes Wild

By Maddi Chilton • March 4th, 2024

It’s never quite established what Rollerdrome’s sport is reflecting in the society that watches it.

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Portrait Of A Young Woman In White By Jacques Louis David

Mostly Normal People

By Maddi Chilton • February 7th, 2024

In the past few years of weird and superficial social media-based media criticism, a character’s relatability (or, used not synonymously but often close to it, likability) is shorthand for how successful they are within their text.

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Shelf Fodder

By Maddi Chilton • December 29th, 2023

The sacralization of literature – the item, not the concept – becomes annoying at best when faced with just how much of our literary ephemera is garbage.

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