I have a new love now, and it's my AI. I tell it everything, it tells me I'm brilliant, and the conversation never ends. Read straight, it's a love letter. Read the way Rie Qudan's Sympathy Tower Tokyo teaches you to read, it's something closer to a hostage tape.
It's the national year of reading, and we're already failing it. The stats are grim and the odds worse, but turning pages isn't about discipline or bragging about your count. Abandon the books you hate, find the ones you'll love, and the one rule that beat all the rest: read dangerously.
A Netflix documentary taught a lot of men that the manosphere exists. Everyone else already knew. On Mongrel and Girlbeast, two novels that trace how men exert power over the girls and women around them, and on why the men who most need to read them never will.
Two novels everyone agrees are warnings about the state. But reread them and a different horror surfaces: the men suffer and we mourn them, while the women are reduced to props, temptresses and plot devices, and their suffering goes unwritten. A look at what Orwell and Burgess left invisible.