Obsession shown through revenge plots and female friendships is the main theme in several new books! Personal emails draw a young woman’s obsession over a couple in “Just One Look” by Lindsay Cameron.

In her column “Brutal Monsters,” Cate Burtner ’25 offers commentary on the literature of mental illness. “She fangirls about her husband for 300 pages.” — The person who recommended this book to me.

Among my obsessions I include cows, pencils and all things Greek, and I count myself lucky to have been able to write for publication about two of these things. I used to think it was self-indulgent ...