It's prime reading season! It's a time when we crave dark academia, books about universities, closed student societies, and secrets. We're talking about those kinds of books in this issue!

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Timecodes:
00:00 — Start
00:32 — Why You Want to Read About Universities in the Fall
03:17 — "The Secret History": Is It Worth Reading at 18?
09:22 — Why is Dark Academy so addictive?
10:56 — "As if We Were Villains": What to Read After Donna Tartt
12:05 — "The Secret Place": School, Murder, and the Perfect Detective Story
14:15 — "The Latinist": A Toxic Professor, Jealousy, and University Life
18:06 — "The Black Izba" and Vita Nostra: A Russian Version of the Academic Atmosphere
22:00 — "The Radius of Fragility": School, Teenagers, and a Very Strange Ending
28:47 — Why Do Russian Authors More Often Write About School, While Western Authors More Often Write About University
29:24 — "The Protagonist": University, Dorm, and Russian Reality
31:44 — Kira on "The Smart Ones" and Applying to MGIMO
39:32 — Back to Books: Why Do University Novels Often Include Romance Triangles
40:22 — Heart the Lover and "The Wedding Plot"
44:07 — Twilight, Harry Potter, and Seasonal Reading
46:33 — When to Put a Book Down: What Rules We Use
49:07 — Nina Dashevskaya: Books That Bring You Back to School
50:54 — "The Nonexistent Pier": The School You Can't Leave
53:26 — What to Read Next and What Books We Forgot
54:14 — The Finale