Reading Guides

How to build a month-long reading route through postcolonial short fiction

Dec 02, 2025 | by Éloïse Durand

I like reading routes—small, deliberate itineraries you can follow that bring you to unexpected places. A month-long reading route through postcolonial short fiction is one of my favourite ways to...

A beginner’s guide to reading dense modernist novels without getting lost

Dec 02, 2025 | by Éloïse Durand

There is a special kind of pleasure in getting inside a dense modernist novel: the sensation of being tested, of having to slow down and think differently. But that pleasure is fragile. Read too...

How to choose overlooked twentieth-century novels that repay slow reading

Dec 02, 2025 | by Éloïse Durand

When I think about the twentieth-century novels that have stayed with me longest, they’re almost always the ones that arrived quietly into my life—pulled from a mis-shelved pile in a charity...