Literature Archives

Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson dig into what we’ve gotten wrong about Frankenstein and how the author’s life shaped the work.

If you’ve ever felt like an imposter when it comes to be well-read, this conversation is for you.

In a variety of ways, The Mysterious Benedict Society series is more emotive and less disciplined than its print counterpart.

In The Mysterious Benedict Society,“going” isn’t intrinsically good or bad: it depends on how you are going…and whom you are going with.

The Book of Strange New Things invites us to reckon with the reality of our shifting, ever-uncertain faith.

What I discovered in My Last Name is a story that has continued to help me process not just the grief and disillusionment of these last several months, but diagnose some of our current cultural ills, as well. 

The Mysterious Benedict Society poses deep, perhaps insoluble, questions related to the subject of truthfulness.

The Mysterious Benedict Society insists that true unity proceeds through difference, not in spite or in opposition to difference.

The Mysterious Benedict Society episode “A Whisper, Not a Shout” shares with its source material an emphasis on the importance of small, seemingly insignificant acts.

Mr. Curtain in The Mysterious Benedict Society series differs from his counterpart in the novel but nicely satirizes the quintessential twenty-first-century tech baron.

Can The Mysterious Benedict Society, a book that skewers screen-based media culture, be fully realized on just such a screen?

Erin and Hannah invite Rebecca McLaughlin to help us learn how to show up in conversations despite our differences.

Erin and Hannah invite Rachel Pieh Jones to help us learn how to show up in real relationship despite our differences.

The most basic hopefulness present in every autobiographical disaster tale is its very existence. The name of the author on the front cover, together with their picture on the back flap, proclaims to the reader, “I survived.”

Stories that pretend horrifying, disturbing, and immoral things simply don’t exist tend to ring hollow. 

At its heart, Wynd is about our own search for renewal and who we become through the journey.