Can Fiction Be Philosophical Without Being Abstract? The Novel as a Vessel for Thought in Narrative Form Post date July 6, 2025 Posted in Bookworm's Notebook Tagged with fiction, philosophy
‘Everything in the world began with a yes’: How Clarice Lispector’s Opening to Her Famous Novella Establishes a Metaphysics of Affirmation Post date July 4, 2025 Posted in Bookmarks Tagged with quotation, quotes
Performative Reading in the Age of Social Media: How the Public Display of Reading Has Undermined the Transformative Power of Books Post date July 3, 2025 Posted in Bookworm's Notebook Tagged with reading
What Love Claims to Be, and What It Learns to Become: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 vs. Sonnet 138 Post date July 1, 2025 Posted in Bookworm's Notebook Tagged with poetry
The Demands of Presence in Reading Poetry: How Difficult Poems Resist Interpretation and Reward Close Reading Post date June 27, 2025 Posted in Bookworm's Notebook Tagged with poetry
Reading is Living: How the Act of Reading Becomes a Life Unto Itself Post date June 24, 2025 Posted in Bookworm's Notebook Tagged with reading
Diverse Collections of Short Stories Post date June 18, 2025 Posted in Book Piles Tagged with Alice Munro, Annie Proulx, Anthony Veasna So, László Krasznahorkai, short stories
Paraprosdokian Post date June 17, 2025 Posted in Bookmarks Tagged with literary device, rhetorical device
Heroes and Antiheroes in Literature Post date June 13, 2025 Posted in Bookmarks Tagged with literary archetype
Asyndeton vs Polysyndeton Post date June 10, 2025 Posted in Bookmarks Tagged with literary device, rhetorical device
Albert Camus and the Ethics of the Absurd: Quotes from The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall Post date June 8, 2025 Posted in Bookmarks Tagged with Albert Camus, quotes
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion: A Deep Literary Analysis Post date May 30, 2025 Posted in Books in Focus Tagged with Deep Dive, Joan Didion, memoir, nonfiction
Literary Nonfiction Books Post date May 25, 2025 Posted in Book Piles Tagged with Ernest Hemingway, Joan Didion, Katherine Boo, nonfiction, Peter Matthiessen, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tom Wolfe