Best of 2024

Year 2! Tier One: A Masterpiece (9.5 – 10 / 10) 1. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Book) After I finished … More

Piranesi: Journaling, Impermanence and NYC Water Towers

Piranesi is the first book I read to start this year. It’s a fascinating story, and I’m going to break … More

As we near the end of the year, I thought it might be nice to rank some of the media … More

“Through the door that Isabel left ajar a Siamese cat entered and saunters over to the couch where Elena sits. … More

“Don Gately was a twenty-seven-year-old oral narcotics addict (favoring Demerol and Talwin), and a more or less professional burglar; and … More

“It is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism” – … More

“You’ve been reading too much science fiction. No, this is no parallel world. You don’t have 1984 over there and … More

For my 19th Russian Literature course, we just finished reading the novel Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogal. To be fair, … More

In Japanese, Kokoro literally translates to “heart,” but it can also mean something more vague. Like, the “heart of things” … More