Books & Literature

Anne Brontë wrote a rawer, braver feminist masterpiece than her famous sisters — and Charlotte buried her reputation out of jealousy. Time to fix that.

Harry Potter fans treat the books as sacred scripture — even as they wrestle with Rowling's transphobia. Devotion and disillusionment collide at a Scottish castle retreat.

Emo frontman Geoff Rickly turned ibogaine rehab and heroin addiction into a debut novel — written sober, reads like Dante on a bad trip.

Wuthering Heights is a flawed, melodramatic novel — so why does Emily Brontë inspire such fierce, female-led devotion? Her myth matters more than her reality.

Haidt's *Anxious Generation* cherry-picks evidence to oversell social media's harm to teens, ignoring conflicting data, weak effect sizes, and a far messier scientific reality.

Emma Mackey brings fierce, complex life to Emily Brontë in Frances O'Connor's boldly speculative biopic — wild guesses that somehow feel emotionally true.

Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly's autofiction tackles heroin addiction and ibogaine recovery without glamorizing either — messy, self-aware, and sharper than typical rockstar memoir.

Actor Frances O'Connor makes her directorial debut reimagining Emily Brontë as a passionate, rebellious romantic — expect a feminist revisionist biopic, not a reverent period piece.

Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly turns his heroin addiction into a hallucinatory debut novel — part memoir, part Dante, impressive enough to launch a new publishing house.

Haidt's bestseller blames smartphones for the teen mental health crisis, but critics say his evidence is selective and the real causes are far more complex.

Haidt's viral book blames social media for teen mental health crisis—but leading researchers say he's cherry-picking flawed data to tell parents what they want to hear.

Liu Cixin secretly read Jules Verne during China's Cultural Revolution. Now his Hugo-winning *Three-Body Problem* may become China's defining sci-fi franchise.