Created by Apurva Shukla.
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
October 03, 2026The Vegetarian is a reminder that our subconscious; our dreaming state and our waking state are inextricably linked
2 min readWriting by Marguerite Duras
October 03, 2026Her essay on writing reads like a vigil in the night, surreptiously marking on wet stone the words of an oracle
6 min readFlesh by David Szalay
September 07, 2026We follow the life of Istaván and see a man who lives almost a half life; a shadow of what could have been
2 min readTonight I’m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson
June 04, 2026Hodson writes with a wild passion borne from a lifetime of clawing through cages; as if the words themselves are a balm for the wounds she carries
6 min readThe Prophet by Khalil Gibran
June 04, 2026Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet maps continents of the human experience
3 min readDown and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
May 19, 2026Orwell paints a vivid scene which makes you writhe with the imaginary bugs that infest his characters
6 min readA Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
May 12, 2026He stood staring at a piece for hours at a time, letting it slowly unfold before him, as if each brushstroke held a Mecca
5 min readHigh Fidelity by Nick Hornby
April 09, 2026High Fidelity is profoundly self-aware, and doesn't try to sugar coat what feels like a confessional streak of napkins in an empty bar.
12 min readThe Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
February 17, 2026The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is structured with the thoughts of a 'successful' investor and entreprenur.
7 min readThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
January 17, 2026As one sun sets, another rises, and what we observe is the dissolution of a world that was overpowered by another - what makes one right and one wrong?
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