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In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, …
The King in Yellow is a fascinating, almost two-faced work. The first half consists of five legendary weird tales, loosely …
"Beloved possesses the heightened power and resonance of myth. An extraordinary novel." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
Toni Morrison's magnificent …
The House of Mirth is a 1905 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Lily Bart, …
The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of …
Dandelion Wine is a coming of age story, infused with the magic of childhood. It's about that first discovery and sharp awareness of being alive, and the attempt to relish every day of the summer. But that sense of life always comes with its twin shadow: the realization of mortality, the experience of loss, friends leaving, and the death of someone you love. What's at stake is to always reaffirm that first sensation of life. For this a new kind of magic is needed: the ethics of passing over the help your received onto others. Summer will be gone but we can preserve the wine of summer in bottles to help us through the winters to come. This is our mundane act of creation that sustains life in all its mystery.
A thorough analysis of depression as a sickness of time, the loss of the future, the loss of the Other. The book analyzes works by Michel Houellebecq, David Foster Wallace, and Lars Von Trier to offer an expansive view of depression that includes the social and political. It is a critique of the hyper-individualized and ideological manner in which the subject is often treated.
