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  • Butter, by Asako Yusuki review: On Food, Desire, and Community

    Butter, by Asako Yusuki review: On Food, Desire, and Community

    Jan 22, 2025

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    11 min read

    So, yes, Butter is worth the hype – but also, no, it isn’t, because the hype should be framed in entirely different terms.

  • Foster, by Claire Keegan review: A Quiet Masterpiece on Grief and Family

    Foster, by Claire Keegan review: A Quiet Masterpiece on Grief and Family

    Jan 21, 2025

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    6 min read

    Foster was my first contact with Claire Keegan and the work that made me fall in love with her writing. I recently revisited it and felt compelled to write about it here. Originally published as a short story in The New Yorker, Foster was later expanded into a novella and published by Faber. The narrative…

  • Want, by Gillian Anderson and Anonymous Review: Desire, Discourse, and Dissonance

    Want, by Gillian Anderson and Anonymous Review: Desire, Discourse, and Dissonance

    Jan 18, 2025

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    6 min read

    Some readers will feel seen when realising their own fantasies are shared by others. And to promote that kind of connection and self-awareness is the only thing Want needs to do.

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Hello, I’m Marcela! Welcome to reading while walking, my online home. Its name was inspired by the experience of reading and writing about Anna Burns’s Milkman. This is a website I created to collect texts I published and to organise links and references to my various academic and creative pursuits.

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