A Mirror of Collective Madness
Fyodor Sologub’s The Petty Demon and the Frivolous Vulgarity of Society
Translating the Unspeakable
Moral Consciousness and Collective Resistance in Vasily Grossman’s War Novels
Against the Wheels of Fate: Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and the Necessity of Art and Conscience in Times of War
The Dizziness of Insignificance
On Melancholy and Mark Haber’s Intoxicating Novel Reinhardt’s Garden
Dostoevsky’s Demons in the Modern World
The Enduring Prevalence of Dostoevsky’s Darkest Ideas
The Prophecy of David Foster Wallace
Revisiting Wallace’s prescient ideas in today’s world
Expressing the Beauty in the Ordinary
How Effective, Colorful Prose Can Return Our Awareness to the Present
Meeting Your Parents
Reflections on the Honorable Fallibility of Parents
Silent Cost of Inaction
How Choice Paralysis Undermines Your Potential
How to Be Human in an Anti-Human World
How Choice Paralysis Undermines Your Potential
Facing My Own Mediocrity
Reflections on Failed Mastery and Diversification