The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han
Can love survive the modern world?
2025 Nobel Prize in Literature: László Krasznahorkai
A snapshot of Hungarian author who took home the Nobel Prize in Literature this year
The New Age of Sexism
In The New Age of Sexism, feminist author Laura Bates dives into the darkest corners of the virtual world: from browsing sex robots for sale online, to visiting a German cyber brothel, to witnessing sexual assault in the metaverse. The result is a harrowing yet necessary account of how women
Persuading you to give Persuasion a go
Somewhere in Waterstones, Daunt Books, or the local South Kensington Books just down Exhibition Road, is an Austen gem tucked sheepishly away with not many attribute attention to; the stunningly mature and endlessly inspiring story of Anne Elliot: Persuasion
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
The Beautiful and Damned
There is something to be said about the way F. Scott Fitzgerald’s sophomore novel The Beautiful and Damned appears to mirror its own contents. Its prose is nothing short of beautiful, full of sparkling phrases and sentences that don’t have a word out of step. It’s eloquent
What Did You Read This Summer?
There are few better ways to understand someone’s character better than their choice of book.
Dubliners
Few authors in the Western canon are as inaccessible yet enjoyable as James Joyce.
Magica Is Burning
On hope, individual responsibility, and the willingness to make a change.
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,
Exordia
Nothing short of alien snakes and trolley problems, Alex delves into the ingenuity of sci-fi novel Exordia in examining morality