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Leo Tolstoy’s A Confession is a short book, no longer than a Sunday afternoon, yet it contains questions so vast that they stretch across the entire human experience: Why should one live? What makes life meaningful? What stops us from killing ourselves?
There are writers who overwhelm you by sheer scale — vast novels, tangled ideas, large casts that feel like mobile cities. Dostoevsky is definitely one of them. Readers often hesitate before entering his world, imagining it to be dense, dark, almost suffocating. Yet the entry point into Dostoevsky doesn’t have to be his big books href="https://amzn.to/4poIogs" target="...
What is bibliotherapy? It’s a question many of you have been asking me, of late. Let me explain.
At its heart, bibliotherapy is the belief that stories can heal. It is the art of using literature — novels, poems, essays, myths, folktales, even philosophical texts — to help a person understand themselves and their emotions more clearly. The word itself is si...
When I opened Jan Morris’s book Among the Cities, I immediately turn to the chapter on a Himalayan hill station, thanks to my biases. I live in one, so I must nev...
Interestingly, I was reading Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City right before I picked up The Only City, a newly released anthology of short stories set in Bombay, or Mumbai, the (slightly) less poetic na...
