Many articles are now discussing the decline in reading among the younger generation. Half of adults in the […]
Literature
Elif Batuman has become something of a cult figure in certain social circles. A writer who, retrospectively, went […]
Six hundred people in the space of fifty square meters. They’re crammed in tight around the edges and […]
Six months ago, I started making video essays for YouTube on philosophy and literature. I thought now would […]
If we are lucky in our lives, we come across artists who are always paying attention, whose vibrant […]
Earlier this year, I read Breasts and Eggs, a feminist novel by the author Mieko Kawakami. It took […]
I’ve spent most of my adult life chasing a kind of certainty : the belief that people are […]
When I was younger, I read many of the books of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a man considered to […]
Ten years ago, I tried to read Norwegian Wood, a semi-autobiographical novel by the author Haruki Murakami. I couldn’t […]
The Beautiful Literal Truth: There’s this thing when people say “reach for the stars,” but those same people, […]