What happens when we confront the terrifying reality of our mortality? Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death explores this profound question, showing how our efforts to evade the awareness of … Read more
If you’ve ever felt like you were performing a version of yourself—at work, in love, even alone—Being and Nothingness explains why. Sartre’s book tackles the problem of self-deception (“bad faith”), … Read more
Being and Time by Martin Heidegger is one of the most argued-about books in twentieth-century philosophy. If you’ve ever wondered why life can feel thrown, busy, distracted, or strangely inauthentic, … Read more
What if the most profound moments of our lives don’t happen in grand epics, but in the quiet space between a purchase of flowers and the chime of a clock? … Read more
If society looks through you, Invisible Man shows how to see yourself anyway. It’s a survival manual for being misread, mislabeled, and made invisible. Invisible Man argues that identity isn’t … Read more
We keep trying to live well in a world where old certainties have crumbled. Thus Spoke Zarathustra solves a modern problem: what to value “after God,” how to create a … Read more
Solenoid is a 2015 literary novel by Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu, translated into English by Sean Cotter and published by Deep Vellum in 2022. It stands as one of the … Read more
Morning and Evening is a poignant novel by Norwegian Nobel Laureate author Jon Fosse, originally published in 2000 as Morgon og kveld and translated into English by Damion Searls in … Read more