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Notes from Underground: Dostoevsky on suffering and the will to live
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella Notes from Underground instantly draws you in with its opening line, “I am a sick man… I am a wicked man.”
Book review: The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami’s latest novel The City and Its Uncertain Walls opens with a poetic, dreamlike memory of the narrator lying beneath a twilight sky …
5 of the best philosophy-related books
Philosophers think about the most important questions in life–everything from how to face death gracefully…
Timeless quotes from Steppenwolf
In an author’s note for the 1961 edition of Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse described the novel as his most “violently misunderstood” work…
The happiness machine and accepting life as it is
In 1957, Ray Bradbury published a captivating short story called “The Happiness Machine,” which takes us back to a time of…
7 days of deep work
I recently read Cal Newport’s book, Deep Work, which is about reaching a state of concentration that enables you to learn hard things quickly.
The interconnectedness of the world and time: Insights from Siddhartha
“They were all interwoven and interlocked, entwined in a thousand ways […] All of them together was the stream of events…”
Old lessons on learning and wisdom from Siddhartha
Siddhartha is a beautifully written spiritual novel by Hermann Hesse about a Nepalese man's journey of self-discovery and search for…
Book review: The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead (published in 1943) by Ayn Rand tells the story of Howard Roark, a talented and hardworking architect with strong convictions…