Communities summon their own monsters. Not through ritual or intention, but through need. Through the stories they tell themselves about who they are. Through their investment in maintaining those stories...
Book Reviews
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The Absurd Witness: I Who Have Never Known Men
Forty women in an underground cage. Silent guards. No explanation. No memory of how they arrived. Just existence under constant electric light, time dissolved into indistinguishable moments, survival without meaning....
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Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar – A Review
Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel “Martyr!” is a meditation on what it means to die for something—and what it means to keep living when you’re not sure why you should. It’s...
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When Life Asks the Questions: Viktor Frankl and the Freedom We Cannot Lose
There’s a passage from Viktor Frankl that keeps returning to me these days, insistent as a knock on the door: “Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess...
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The Eternal Present and Its Discontents
Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now sells a seductive idea: your suffering exists because you live anywhere but here. The past is memory, the future is projection, and both are...