Literature Shelf

Notes From John Steinbeck's East of Eden

On generational knowledge, the inevitable crushing of hope and faith in choice...

Oct 22 •

Notes from Stefan Zweig's Beware of Pity

On Saviour Complexes and the Suffocating Weight of Emotions...

Oct 14 •

How I Am Reading Physical Books Again

On nerve damage and the weight of physical books...

Oct 10 •

East of Eden Reading List

On the academic pieces I want to read to critically understand John Steinbeck's East of Eden...

Oct 9 •

Notes From R.F.Kuang's Katabasis

On the state of philosophy and depressed academics...

Oct 7 •

25 books for 25

On the 25 books I want to read for my 25th book on earth...

Oct 4 •

Everything I Read in September

On the 6 books I read in September and my October TBR...

Oct 1 •

Notes from Xenobe Purvis’ The Hounding

On the danger of spreading rumours...

Sep 29 •

Notes from Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection

On air b&b's being fake...

Sep 24 •

Books That Feel Like Old Friends

On 5 pieces of literature that I could read time and time again...

Sep 19 •

Notes From Muriel Spark's Symposium

On being quiet and catholicism...

Sep 17 •

Literature's Most Insufferable Mother?

On Jeanette's Winterson's mother-daughter dynamics in Oranges are Not the Only Fruit...

Sep 13 •

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