“It was himself that he was attempting to define as he worked on his study. It was himself that he was slowing shaping, it was himself...

In the vast world of literature, the pursuit of profound meaning often intertwines with the unstoppable passing of time. While some...

Love, like the innocence of childhood, evolves as one does in a society held tightly by the strings of convention and patriarchy. Though...

Alberto Moravia, even before Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre Alberto Moravia writes about existentialism through his characters. In...

Edgar Allan Poe paints a lonely and muted landscape of horror. His stories aren’t supposed to thrive in chaos or miserable togetherness....

Not a lot of people have read No Longer Human and not a lot of people will. It’s not a long book, at least not by its measure, but it...

This book remains too ephemeral. And yet it is profoundly infused with the feeling of living in (or with) the present. It’s a book that...

The writing of Borges is such that you’ll yearn for its intricacies, the diaphanous structures, and his fevered fictive inventions that...

You can read Waiting for Godot as humanity’s most significant and unpretentious canon of what it means to live. We often fill in the gaps...

For Schopenhauer, the deepest problem of the self, afflicting itself, is our individuality. The will to live must live and fester on...