Books

Jul 17, 2023

Estival recommendations

Attempting to escape from the capitalist society in which I live- gosh, my life is so hard- I've endeavored away from consumption this...

May 11, 2023

When the Chips are Down

A review of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller For the last few months, there has been a steady...

Feb 16, 2022

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

Did you also come home for Christmas? “It’s a funny thing. Coming home. Everything looks the same. Feels the same, even smells the same....

Feb 11, 2022

A Bell Jar That No Longer Rings

On February 11th, the world’s literary community commemorates fifty-nine years since one of the finest female poets decided to take her...

Jan 25, 2022

Dune (2021) - An impressive adaptation of Herbert’s 1965 novel

Since the publication of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel Dune in 1965 and its sequels, the Dune franchise has become widely known...

Jan 15, 2022

Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)

Love, coming of age, existential dread, death, and loneliness are some of the main themes that encapsulate this literary ‘masterpiece’....

Nov 17, 2021

Finding Pleasure in Tragedy: Possible in Shakespeare’s Hamlet?

Nothing screams ‘feel the positive in the negative’ more than Shakespeare does in many of his intensely morbid plays as he crushes our...

May 22, 2021

Thoughts on rationality, empathy and asymmetry

You are born into this world as a vessel of a singular perception, an individual entity in possession of an individual consciousness. You...

Jan 22, 2021

A writer lost to the 20th century.

"After the calm comes the storm; it starts out slowly, reaches its peak, then it's over and other periods of calm, some longer, some...

Jan 12, 2021

Transit (Anna Seghers)

The "influx of refugees" is on everyone's lips. Long before a certain respiratory disease went viral, "waves" were being associated with...