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Intimidated by James Joyce? Here’s What You Need to Know Before Reading Him
Let’s be honest: owning James Joyce’s classics and actually reading James Joyce are two very different things. Somewhere in the world right now, copies of his classics—most likely Ulysses —are sitting stranded, looking decorative, intellectual, and completely untouched, like a literary dumbbell we swear we’re going to lift someday.
Reading Black History Month Through These Masterpieces of Classic Literature
Black History Month invites us to do more than remember—it asks us to read closely . To sit with stories that carry the weight of erased histories, fractured identities, and enduring resistance. Classic Black literature does not simply document the past; it interrogates it, mourns it, and reshapes it through language. These books span continents, centuries, and forms—novels, memoirs, speeches, and essays—but together they create a powerful literary archive of Black life, struggle, and imagination. Also read: Why Things Fall Apart Still Matters: Chinua Achebe’s Timeless Reflection on Identity and Power
A Gentle Guide to Reading Virginia Woolf Without Feeling Intimidated
For many readers, Virginia Woolf sits on a high shelf of literary greatness—admired from a distance, rarely touched. Her name often arrives with warnings: difficult , experimental , not for beginners . The irony is that Woolf herself wrote with an intense concern for the inner lives of ordinary people. She cared less about showing off intellectual fireworks and more about capturing what it feels like to be alive—thinking, remembering, longing, and drifting through time. If you’ve ever wanted to read Virginia Woolf but felt unsure where to begin or how to stay with her, this guide is for you. Also read: Why Virginia Woolf Believed Reality Was Felt, Not Explained
