Seoul Stories: Han Kang, Violence and Candlelight
The day I stood shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of thousands of my fellow civilians, staring down the barrels of Continue reading
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The Phenomenology of Language in David Abram’s ‘The Spell of the Sensuous’
I really do consider this a truly paradigm-shifting book even though I didn’t buy into all of the assumptions written Continue reading
The Infinite Labyrinth of Time in Borges’ “The Garden of Forking Paths”
In his story, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” Jorge Luis Borges explores the labyrinth, the writer, and perhaps above all, Continue reading
Calvino’s Cosmicomics: Time and the Hunter (or t zero)
To me, there’s virtually no doubt that Italo Calvino is a literary genius. Each one of his works create either Continue reading
Creating a Character, 2: Bernard Malamud and J.G. Ballard
The question remains: How does a skilled writer establish a good character in so few pages? And how does it relate to their overall style and composition?
How Should One Love?: A Review of Existentialism and Romantic Love
Skye Cleary’s book Existentialism and Romantic Love is a philosophical piece aiming to resolve the problematic nature of defining and Continue reading
Hemingway and Modernity’s Necropolis
The works of Ernest Hemingway have always aimed to elucidate the looming presence of death as it follows his characters Continue reading
Simulacrum in Literature: Baudrillard and Barthelme
Simulacrum, like many terms surrounding postmodernism, has been defined in a number of ways. Perhaps the simplest definition of the Continue reading
