A Book Club For Reformed Nonfiction Supremacists

Rich reflects on his truly deranged reaction to the film, after entering a manic state and staying up all night penning a 2500 word rant. Meanwhile Cam had a nice time at the cinema and gives it a soft seven.

How does a general who can stare down an armed mob go to pieces over his wife's handkerchief? A special investigation into race-swapped casting, bad epistemology, and why men have a deep-seated fear of being cucked.

Let's go baby, things are getting steamy. Rich isn't sure if he's turned on or terrified by Dorothea, Cam can't figure out whether he'd take blood money, and Ben is torn about whether marrying a psychopath is worth it if she's a hottie.

We crack into the guardian's #1 novel, aka the English Anna Karenina. How does it compare with Tolstoy?

Is the narrator really transformed by drawing the cathedral, or is this just an over-interpreted moment in American fiction? On sincerity, empathy, and seeing other people.

Yeah, it's big brain time. Could two superintelligent beings cooperate, or would they have to annihilate each other? An AI doom classic from 1991.

Dissecting the iconic opening line, the precise nature of Ishmael's relationship with our fellow New Zealand native Queequeg, and the question of race and class politics onboard a whaling ship.

A meditation on violence, manifest destiny, self-mythology, and one author's cunning plot to position himself within the literary canon.

The boys put down the heavy tomes for a short story — well, maybe a thought experiment. A meditation on infinity (or almost-might-as-well-be infinity). There are a lot of books.

The elephant in the room is magical realism: have we found our kryptonite? An often-maddening, always-magical journey to Macondo.