Reading Lists

Here’s the thing about the Middle Ages: they’re unquestionably beautiful, strange & terrifying. Once you find the way in, it becomes one of the most addictive rabbit holes in reading. This list covers roughly 500 years of medieval England and Europe: cathedrals and pilgrimages, plague and papal scandal, mystics and outlaws and women doing extraordinary…

St. Patrick’s Day came and went, but our feelings about Irish literature are entirely year-round — so here we are. A short, genuinely wonderful list of Irish writers (and one American who wrote one of the best books about Ireland you’ll ever read) who will rearrange how you think and feel. Here are some of…