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

reading bad TikTok books is not the critical thinking YouTubers think it is
According to Alina · 33K views · 2 months ago

Substack and 'performative intellectualism'
According to Alina · 431K views · 6 months ago

the death of personal taste in books
According to Alina · 428K views · 1 year ago

Booktok and anti-intellectualism (ft. 'the booktokers who don't read')
According to Alina · 649K views · 1 year ago

Why we're so obsessed with what other people read
According to Alina · 78K views · 1 year ago

Who decides what books are really about?
According to Alina · 31K views · 9 months ago

BookTok and overconsumption
According to Alina · 461K views · 2 years ago

How women took over literature (or why men abandoned it)
According to Alina · 102K views · 2 years ago

The booktoker to author pipeline: a tale of privilege and backlash
According to Alina · 60K views · 1 year ago

Why is booktok discourse so shallow?
According to Alina · 100K views · 2 years ago

Hozier and Dante's Inferno
According to Alina · 49K views · 3 years ago

Romantasy: literature for a loveless age
According to Alina · 70K views · 1 year ago

Why there are no great writers anymore
According to Alina · 198K views · 2 years ago

Gatekeeping and the return of the literary snob
According to Alina · 74K views · 11 months ago

The problem with 'the classics vs. BookTok’ debate
According to Alina · 116K views · 2 years ago

Is literature useful?
According to Alina · 62K views · 1 year ago

The 'reading aesthetic'
According to Alina · 296K views · 3 years ago