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Gustave Flaubert and the realist novel

Schopenhauer on the human condition and original sin

Milan Kundera and the ideal form of love

Nietzsche’s eternal return

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Mary Oliver’s White Flowers and the undiscovered country

Sin, sirens, and the irresistible allure of sound

Finding meaning in the face of death

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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 …