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What Makes an Artistic Achievement Truly Great?
On Art, Struggle, and Human Accomplishment
Jan 9
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Five Authors I Have Read in Full: Part 1
Albert Camus · Kazuo Ishiguro · Paul Auster · Cormac McCarthy · Ottessa Moshfegh
Dec 23, 2025
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The Uses of the Grotesque
A look at Geek Love, Truevine, and On Ugliness—and how deformity, spectacle, and “freaks” are produced, justified, and made useful across fiction…
Dec 21, 2025
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THE STRANGER’S LIBRARY — PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER
Scent, Obsession, and the Engineering of Belief
Dec 14, 2025
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The Stranger's Library: Episode 0
The prologue to The Stranger’s Library—part invitation, part manifesto—for readers who want books that sharpen, unsettle, and illuminate.
Dec 8, 2025
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Dec 6, 2025
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