Following the success of a world-renowned ultra-running career and a best-selling book, Eat & Run, Scott Jurek looked like he had finally slowed down. Transitioning from a career… Read more “North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail: Review”
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Review: Consider the Lobster
Singularly American and difficult to categorize, David Foster Wallace is the product of his setting and time: a Midwestern-raised boy witness to an America fueled by conglomerate… Read more “Review: Consider the Lobster”
The Poignancy of Orwell’s Political Critiques
Following the 2016 election of President Donald J. Trump, there has been a great deal of political and societal worry within American borders and abroad. Censorship, fake… Read more “The Poignancy of Orwell’s Political Critiques”
Abstention Over Indulgence: Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
Each society and culture has a set of ethics, habits, and commonality that most of the population follows – whether it is portrayed through work ethic, religious… Read more “Abstention Over Indulgence: Han Kang’s The Vegetarian”
Religion and Suicide – Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited
If you have ever read any of Cormac McCarthy’s works, you know that he is willing to accept and portray the dark, grotesque underbelly of life. Whether… Read more “Religion and Suicide – Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited”
