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Cat’s Cradle: Dancing on the Edge of the Apocalypse with Kurt Vonnegut
If “Slaughterhouse-Five” was Kurt Vonnegut’s primal scream against the fire of war, “Cat’s Cradle” is his bitter, frozen sneer at…
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The Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov: A Study of Freedom, Faith, and Fear
The “Grand Inquisitor” is one of those rare literary moments that rises above the novel it lives in. Although it…
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An Analysis of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls: A Journey Through the Landscape of Human Vices
Among the classics of Russian literature, few novels are as strange, inventive, and psychologically piercing as Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls.…
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A Whole New Mind: When the Right Hemisphere Is No Longer Exclusive.
Daniel H. Pink’s A Whole New Mind was one of the defining business and creativity books of the early 2000s;…
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The Power Is Within You: A Beautiful but Hollow Book.
The name Louise L. Hay is familiar to anyone who has wandered through the self-help section of a bookstore. In…
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The Wrestler Who Couldn’t Gain Weight: When Philosophy Turns Into Preaching
When you see the name Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, you expect a novel that looks simple on the surface but hides layers…
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The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction: A Poetic Defense of Focus
Reading this book felt like a pause in the middle of endless notifications, pop-ups, and noise that keep dragging us…
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The Catcher in the Rye: A Search for Authenticity in a Phony World
I’ve read The Catcher in the Rye three times, and each time it felt like a diffe rent book. The…
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Beloved by Toni Morrison: A Wound That Never Heals
Toni Morrison’s Beloved isn’t a novel you simply finish and put away. It lingers — like a voice breathing in…
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