Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Latinist | 2022 | Mark Prins | Buy |
The Latinist (2022) is Mark Prins’s debut novel, set in the rarefied world of classical studies at Oxford. The story follows a brilliant graduate student whose academic career is intertwined with and controlled by her thesis advisor. As she works to break free, the power dynamics between them become increasingly dangerous.
The book’s academic setting gives it a distinctive atmosphere, and Prins uses his own background in classics to make the scholarly details feel authentic. The Latinist was well-received for its sharp portrait of academic culture and the specific ways that intellectual institutions can enable abuse of power.