Reading List: December

Non-Fiction: 

 

Brian Merchant: Blood in the Machine. 

Karen Hao: Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI. 

 

Fiction: 

 

Alex Gonzalez: Rekt. 

S.P. Miskowski: If You Knew Me. 

Kemi Ashing-Giwa: The King Must Die. 

Gretchen Felker-Martin: Black Flame.

Catherine Dang: What Hunger.  

Gemma Amor: Itch!

Chloe Michelle Howarth: Heap Earth Upon It. 

 

Films: 

 

The Penguin Lessons (2024, Peter Cattaneo).

Straume (2024, Gints Zilbalodis).

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025, Mary Bronstein).

Left-Handed Girl (2025, Shih-Ching Tsou).

One Battle After Another (2025, Paul Thomas Anderson).

Frankenstein (2025, Guillermo del Toro).

Wake Up Dead Man (2025, Rian Johnson). 

Kimi-tachi wa dô ikiru ka (2023, Hayao Miyazaki).

The Assessment (2025, Fleur Fortune). 

The Mastermind (2025, Kelly Reichardt). 

 

Shows: 

 

Last Samurai Standing, Season One. 

The Beast In Me, Season One. 

The Secret of Us, Season One. 

Whale Store XOXO, Season One. 

Runaway, Season One.