February 3, 2025 If This is a Man / The Truce “You who live safe in your warm houses, You who find, returning in the evening, hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this is…
January 10, 2025 The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin The Fire Next Time contains two powerful, profound, and intelligent essays written on racism. The first essay named “My Dungeons Shook” is a letter…
December 5, 2024 The World of Yesterday – Stefan Zweig This memoir of Stefan Zweig is one man’s yearning for a lost yesterday. Zweig lived through two world wars, witnessed how the society gradually…
January 12, 2024 A Very Easy Death – Simone de Beauvoir Witnessing the death of a loved one is one of the most difficult situations that one can face. The mental agony of such times…
July 3, 2023 J’Accuse – Emile Zola Emile Zola is one of the most gifted French authors. His works won’t disappoint readers who expect more than mere storytelling. Through his work,…
July 1, 2023 Italian Journey – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In 1786, acting on an impulse, Goethe takes a journey to Italy. He visits many Italian cities including Venice, Verona, Naples, Sicily, and Rome….
April 1, 2023 Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke This is the best work I’ve read after Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, which I found profoundly informative to amateur writers like…
August 15, 2022 The Words – Jean Paul Sartre The Words is one of the most interesting autobiographies I’ve read. Although it mainly covers the first ten years of the life of Jean-Paul…
July 17, 2022 This way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlmen – Tadeusz Borowski This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen is a collection of short stories that states a brutally true account of horror and survival…
June 15, 2022 The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus This essay is an in-depth discussion of Camus’s view on absurdism and how man continues his existence on the face of it. Is he…