In "The Secret History", Donna Tartt turns a tight circle of brilliant students into a slow-burning study of ambition, obsession, and the cost of belonging. This episode revisits the novel’s haunting world and asks why its mix of privilege, image, and moral compromise feels just as sharp in today’s era of curated selves and public performance.

Additional sources for this episode:

• https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/46774/en_US
• https://54books.de/dunkle-academia-donna-tartts-die-geheime-geschichte-und-die-folgen/
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