History Isn’t Made by Great Men
War and Peace is rooted in Tolstoy’s longing for the infinite and universal. Yet, it reveals our need to focus on the concrete and mundane.
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Literature
Ishiguro Explores ‘Our Illusory Sense of Connection with the World’
Ishiguro has been praised for his unapologetic investigation of loss and hope, and the “inevitable sadness” inherent in his novels.
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Kierkegaard, Knausgaard, and the ‘Kingdom of God’
Karl Ove Knausgaard often uses religious language in his fiction—but as religion recedes, does he think literature can create ecstatic experience?
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