The Bell Jar: An Exploration of Mental Illness, Isolation, and Society’s Expectations
The Bell Jar is a novel written by the American poet Sylvia Plath, published under…
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: A Dystopian Vision of the Future
Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” is a dystopian novel that explores…
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver — Rage With a Philosophy Behind It
A review of Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice — the 1968 prison essays that turned racial fury into one of the most unsettling works of American existentialist thought.
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky — The First Man Who Refused to Get Better
Dostoevsky wrote this in 1864. The Underground Man has been living rent-free in my head…
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West: The Myth of Saving Anyone
Nathanael West wrote Miss Lonelyhearts in 1933. It is 185 pages. It feels like a…
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow — The Immigrant Who Built the Machine the Rest of Us Live Inside
A review of Ron Chernow’s landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton — the illegitimate Caribbean orphan who out-hustled every Founding Father and built the America we actually live in.
