Emily Eakin
Book Review editor and critic who provides literary analysis and led the episode's setup and thematic framing of Zeneby Purvis's debut novel.
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Jan 30, 2026 • 50min
Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Hounding' by Xenobe Purvis
Gregory Cowles, senior editor who breaks down characters; Emily Eakin, critic who frames themes; Joumana Khatib, editor offering close readings. They discuss Xenobe Purvis’s gothic fable about five sisters pursued by a fearful village. Conversation covers shifting narrators, ambiguous supernatural hints, misogyny and mob dynamics, striking animal imagery, and drought as symbolic pressure.
