According to Alina

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Novels are written like we're stupid now. Are we?

According to Alina · 253K views · 5 months ago

31:45

reading bad TikTok books is not the critical thinking YouTubers think it is

According to Alina · 33K views · 2 months ago

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Substack and 'performative intellectualism'

According to Alina · 431K views · 6 months ago

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the death of personal taste in books

According to Alina · 428K views · 1 year ago

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Booktok and anti-intellectualism (ft. 'the booktokers who don't read')

According to Alina · 649K views · 1 year ago

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Why we're so obsessed with what other people read

According to Alina · 78K views · 1 year ago

30:41

Who decides what books are really about?

According to Alina · 31K views · 9 months ago

25:14

BookTok and overconsumption

According to Alina · 461K views · 2 years ago

25:31

How women took over literature (or why men abandoned it)

According to Alina · 102K views · 2 years ago

29:34

The booktoker to author pipeline: a tale of privilege and backlash

According to Alina · 60K views · 1 year ago

26:45

Why is booktok discourse so shallow?

According to Alina · 100K views · 2 years ago

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Hozier and Dante's Inferno

According to Alina · 49K views · 3 years ago

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Romantasy: literature for a loveless age

According to Alina · 70K views · 1 year ago

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Why there are no great writers anymore

According to Alina · 198K views · 2 years ago

27:11

Gatekeeping and the return of the literary snob

According to Alina · 74K views · 11 months ago

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The problem with 'the classics vs. BookTok’ debate

According to Alina · 116K views · 2 years ago

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Is literature useful?

According to Alina · 62K views · 1 year ago

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The 'reading aesthetic'

According to Alina · 296K views · 3 years ago

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