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The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster

Paul Auster shares heartfelt and personal meditations on fatherhood that “integrates heart and intellect, sensation and speculation . . . as it relentlessly tries to make sense of the shocks of living”
Feb 09, 2025

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Facing Death on the Mirror : Lives and Lessons
Facing Death on the Mirror : Lives and Lessons

Facing death he guides readers through scenes of profound loss and quiet hope: “Paul sets the stage for his own tragedy.” When the results arrive, a glaring image of stage IV lung cancer, Paul is under death’s shadow, grappling with his mortality through the words he weaves.”
Dec 02, 2024

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On Love and Marriage: Dostoyevsky, BP Koirala, Virginia Woolf and Proust
On Love and Marriage: Dostoyevsky, BP Koirala, Virginia Wool...

Emily Brontë, in Wuthering Heights expresses the pain of missing presence, the yearnings and stinging memories of her lover and loneliness; “I knew I would love you the moment I saw you, and I would have loved you forever had you stayed. But you left me with nothing but memori...
Nov 16, 2024

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My Search for Freedom: Conversation with Gurcharan Das
My Search for Freedom: Conversation with Gurcharan Das

"The true horror of existence is not the fear of death, but the fear of life. It is the fear of waking up each day to face the same struggles, the same disappointments, the same pain.”— Albert Camus, The Fall
Oct 05, 2024

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Prophet Song: In Intensity and Spirit
Prophet Song: In Intensity and Spirit

Cecile De Forest, a reader of Prophet Song, argues that the book written from a desperate mother’s point of view couldn’t have been a better choice.
Aug 28, 2024

OPINION
A Day with Nobel Laureates
A Day with Nobel Laureates
Who are we? Where did we come from? What is our address in this universe? Where is it (the universe) going? Are we alone and lonely in the cosmos? How did life begin? Are there more dimensions besides space, time, and mass? Profound questions, they raised without the help of God. Is God, too, a c...
Jul 04, 2021
OPINION
Why Do We Write?
Why Do We Write?

It is an exploration of minds and matters and what they mean to us, an observation of things, nature, humans and, to pierce into mystery of what is underneath, inside and out there, beyond what eyes can see, the sounds one can hear, a life process records of human journey and perceptions exploring t...
Jun 09, 2021
