Philosophical Literature

One of the most wonderful and smallest things Dostoyevsky presented to fans of Russian literature.

Rachel and Eliza are hoping to have a baby. The couple spend many happy evenings together planning for the future. One night Rachel wakes up screaming and tells Eliza that an ant has crawled into her eye and is stuck there. She knows it sounds mad - but she also knows it's true. As a scientist, Eliza won't take Rachel's fear seriously, and they have a bitter fight. Suddenly their entire relationship is called into question.

Philosophy has always been more than an ivory tower discipline. Renowned philosophers from Plato to Nietzsche and many others produced fiction with thought-provoking philosophical content. Many of philosophy’s story-tellers preferred long walks rather than the confines of the ivory tower. I’m a workaday philosopher of no renown who has enjoyed both for a long time, deep thoughts in the Tower, long walks to process them.

Born in 1955 to a poor family in Devon Thomas refused to conform. His fierce independence, recklessness and contrariness led not only to scrapes and self-inflicted dangers but to a life enriched by the love of women. Catrina Davies came to know him in his last years and has given his life and times in his own words, creating a rich, pungent language in a knowing, poetic and poignant voice. We learn of his accumulation of engines, tools and guns, the complexity of his connection to nature, the animals he loved and his desire to hunt them.

In a quiet, unassuming café, the ordinary world fades as the hypnotic flicker of a candle draws Jack Hagan into a profound moment of introspection. An enigmatic old man, whose age and origins are shrouded in mystery, disrupts this solitude. His presence is both unsettling and magnetic, speaking in cryptic metaphors that hint at deeper truths about life, struggle, and the human condition. As the two men interact with each other, the café transforms into a microcosm of the world, with other patrons subtly reflecting broader societal themes. The redhead at the bar, the prim woman by the ...

Heraclitus’ fragments come together, to life, and toward its antitheses in this fantastic metaphysical journey. Forty years after Orion’s Cartwheels hitchhiking circumnavigation of the planet, Steve of the Jacuzzi returns to accompany the good doctor on another series of road trips to Alsace and Central Africa and Tennessee, in a penultimate bucket list Grand Tour.