Aditi Mehta

My favourite book (and goodbye)

If there’s anything I can leave you with, it’ll be a recommendation to read Rules of Civility.

Hot takes: Murakami

Haruki Murakami has become a household name. Often seen as the frontrunner of Japanese literature in the West, he has also become an increasingly divisive author. Despite criticism regarding his presentation of women, and repetitiveness or banality in his oeuvre, Murakami still emerges as a widely read, well-enjoyed novelist.

Books for when...

Valentine's themed recommendations

Orbital

Orbital is Samantha Harvey’s love letter to Planet Earth. I was fortunate to begin the novel in my own orbit of sorts, on an airplane accompanying the rising sun from Singapore to London. Looking out, I felt the same strange sense of privilege that mirrored in its pages. This

What book was under your tree?

The Felix Editoral Team review one book they read over Christmas break.

Flesh by David Szalay

A review of the 2025 Booker Prize winner.

Felix reviews Napoleon Dynamite

Felix Editors review a classic 2004 film about a socially awkward teenager.

The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han

Can love survive the modern world?

The internet has broken reading

Over the summer I started reading Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka. The book assesses how algorithms have skewed and skewered out culture. More on that in a future issue.  Filterworld helped me create awareness about my existence as someone who has grown up with the internet as

What Did You Read This Summer?

There are few better ways to understand someone’s character better than their choice of book.

Recommendations: summer reads

In a full circle moment, I present book recommendations from the Felix team. With a holiday spanning from July to October, I don’t believe any of the time-related excuses anymore. We don’t have exams around the corner. Forget your UROPs, summer internships, and imaginary self prescribed work.

The Dorito Effect

Food has changed. Mark Schatzker’s The Dorito Effect exemplifies that. Using an overarching metaphor of a Dorito chip, originally conceived as a corn tortilla but now bathed in bucketloads of artificial flavourings, the book explores how flavour is manipulated to trick our senses into consuming food devoid of nutrition,