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
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
There are few better ways to understand someone’s character better than their choice of book.
Few authors in the Western canon are as inaccessible yet enjoyable as James Joyce.
On hope, individual responsibility, and the willingness to make a change.
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.
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,
Nothing short of alien snakes and trolley problems, Alex delves into the ingenuity of sci-fi novel Exordia in examining morality
Review of The Moustache, by Books writer George Pastons
A stark reminder of our biases. This review contains spoilers.
Annabelle reflects the influence of seasons on her past reading habits: a three part series
A reflection of my experience reading Scientists for Survival amid our political climate; a book not about climate change, but who we could be in the face of it.