Tag: literature

  • On The Pursuit of Love

    On The Pursuit of Love

    I have now seen Emily Wilson’s BBC adaptation of The Pursuit of Love three times in its entirety. The first time was on a whim, just after its release, as a friend and I brainstormed what to watch together that night. I hadn’t read the novel and had barely heard of Nancy Mitford. Soon, I…

  • On God Spare the Girls

    On God Spare the Girls

    [cw: discussions of rape and sexual assault, from the Bible and Shakespeare play Titus Andronicus] A new novel by a fellow alumna of The University of Texas at Austin, with a protagonist that chooses this university to the reluctant dread of her evangelical family – set under the big skies of rural Texas and punctuated…