

Stoner, John Williams
What a wonder… high-level expansiveness.  A t its core, this book is a relentless philosophical inquiry into the nature of an ordinary existence, masterfully challenging the traditional heroic narrative. It follows William Stoner, a man born to poor Missouri farmers, who unexpectedly finds his calling in literature and becomes a modest, uncelebrated university professor. A meticulous chronicle of small failures: disappointments in marriage, professional inactivity, and the s


A Marriage At Sea, Sophie Elmhirst
Tremendous. Elmhirst’s work transcends the genre of travelogue. It’s a compelling existential narrative on identity and environment. By chronicling a lost at sea…117 days adrift of a married couple, Elmhirst relays how the essential self of two people are tested by deliberate isolation. The sea is not merely a setting but a void. It’s stripped of the external social world (career, community, consumerism) that typically anchors people in the modern world… the evolution of huma


















