Ways of Seeing
Seven short essays on how pictures, ads, and nudes teach us to look.
4,357-word summary · 19 min read
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Merricat guards sister Constance after arsenic deaths, until cousin Charles invades and fire frees them.
3,011-word summary · 13 min read
We Should All Be Feminists
Adichie turns her 2012 TEDx talk into a short sharp essay on gender, using stories from Lagos and America to argue equality helps everyone.
2,625-word summary · 12 min read
We Were Liars
Cadence Sinclair returns to Beechwood Island after an accident she cannot recall, chasing summers with Johnny, Mirren and Gat toward the truth.
1,923-word summary · 9 min read
We'll Always Have Summer
Belly must choose between Conrad and Jeremiah after two years with Jeremiah and a wedding plan at Cousins.
2,540-word summary · 11 min read
Weyward
Three Weyward women across centuries heal with herbs while accused.
1,933-word summary · 9 min read
What Alice Forgot
After a gym fall erases ten years, Alice, 39, wakes as her 29 year old self and must relearn her three kids and failing marriage as a stranger.
2,495-word summary · 11 min read
When Breath Becomes Air
A neurosurgeon facing terminal cancer asks what makes life meaningful when time runs out.
2,060-word summary · 9 min read
When We Believed in Mermaids
ER doctor Kit flies to New Zealand when fire victim may be sister Josie.
2,020-word summary · 9 min read
Where She Went
Three years after the crash, rock star Adam Wilde spends one night in New York facing Mia and their breakup.
2,942-word summary · 13 min read
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing: Kya the Marsh Girl, Tate and Chase, the 1969 murder in Barkley Cove, and what the trial misses.
2,568-word summary · 11 min read
Where the Heart Is
Pregnant teen Novalee Nation is abandoned at a Sequoyah, Oklahoma Wal-Mart, where she gives birth to Americus and rebuilds life with town help.
2,352-word summary · 10 min read