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9 Books You Can Read In A Day: Literary Escapes for Time-Bound Readers
In the vast world of literature, the pursuit of profound meaning often intertwines with the unstoppable passing of time. While some...
Amreen Dhurue
Jan 1, 20243 min read


Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Love, like the innocence of childhood, evolves as one does in a society held tightly by the strings of convention and patriarchy. Though...
Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 17, 20231 min read


Exploring existentialism in Alberto Moravia’s Contempt
Alberto Moravia, even before Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre Alberto Moravia writes about existentialism through his characters. In...
Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 14, 20233 min read


Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe paints a lonely and muted landscape of horror. His stories aren’t supposed to thrive in chaos or miserable togetherness....
Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 5, 20232 min read


No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
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...
Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 4, 20232 min read


Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
The writing of Borges is such that you’ll yearn for its intricacies, the diaphanous structures, and his fevered fictive inventions that...
Ayesha Dhurue
Jan 29, 20232 min read


Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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...
Ayesha Dhurue
Jan 29, 20232 min read


A Season in Hell and Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
For Schopenhauer, the deepest problem of the self, afflicting itself, is our individuality. The will to live must live and fester on...
Ayesha Dhurue
Nov 28, 20221 min read


The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
“When you looked through an angel’s eyes you saw essences instead of surfaces, you saw the decay of the soul blistering and bubbling on...
Ayesha Dhurue
Sep 15, 20222 min read


The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro is not for the faint-hearted. Although the effect it has is quite out of the ordinary yet subtle. The...
Ayesha Dhurue
Aug 30, 20221 min read
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