All garden entries tagged with "power".
4 entries across the garden
McCurdy’s fiction debut follows Waldo, a seventeen-year-old in Anchorage living with her single mother, a Safeway bagger cycling through one needy relationship after another. Waldo manages her own loneliness through compulsive online shopping, treating a Shein order like it might fix something deeper. Then Mr. Korgy arrives as her new English teacher, introducing himself to […]
An Arcane Inheritance arrives with considerable pedigree: Kamilah Cole’s debut adult novel after a well-regarded YA duology, set in the rich soil of dark academia, and draped in praise from some of fantasy’s biggest names. It has all the ingredients for something genuinely unsettling and intellectually resonant. Which makes it all the more disappointing that […]
Avana Gray’s I, Medusa offers a compelling reimagining of the classic Greek myth, centering Medusa’s perspective in a narrative about transformation, trauma, and reclaiming power. The novel follows Medusa’s journey from a young woman devoted to Athena’s temple to her infamous transformation into the snake-haired Gorgon. Gray explores how Medusa’s monstrous form emerges not from […]
Introduction American schooling is often described in binary terms: either a benevolent public good that lifts children out of ignorance and poverty, or an assembly line that manufactures compliant workers for an unequal economy. Neither framing survives close scrutiny. Institutionalized education is better understood as a single structural mechanism — hierarchy, authority, ritual, and conferred […]
