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…
February 9, 2022 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is an early work of the feminist canon. Written in the late 18th century, this work brings…
December 15, 2021 Letters on England – Voltaire Letters on England, a collection of letters written by Voltaire while living in exile in England, comprises Voltaire’s observations on English politics, governance, religion,…
November 29, 2021 The Letter of Vincent van Gogh I have had an interest in painting since my younger days. I never painted myself, nor could I draw or sketch, yet I was…
November 26, 2021 The Republic – Plato The Republic is where Plato lays down his ideas of an ideal state and its rulers. Plato’s Utopian state is one which is just…
November 25, 2021 The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince is a political treatise written by a Florentine diplomat, Niccolo Machiavelli. In a time of foreign invasion and rule of the different…
November 23, 2021 The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues – Plato “No man who goes to war with you or any other multitude, honestly struggling against the commission of unrighteousness and wrong in the state,…
November 7, 2021 A Russian Journal – John Steinbeck “We found as we expected that Russian people are people. And as with other people, they are very nice. The ones we met had…