Review: The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham Adam Pugsley
Jul 11, 2023 book reviews A week or two ago, in between sessions of playing Fallout 4 that were longer than I care to admit, I read John Wyndham’s The Crysalids. I loved it. Review: Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Adam Pugsley
Feb 1, 2023 book reviews Cormac McCarthy likely needs no introduction; he’s a household name for literature lovers, and he’d surely scold me for using that semicolon. I’d Review: Sue Prideaux’s I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche Adam Pugsley
Jan 10, 2023 book reviews Nietzsche is an often misunderstood philosopher. His complex and at times contradictory thought lends itself to a wide range of interpretations. The Try this funny little Schopenhauer game Adam Pugsley
Jan 3, 2023 philosophy I found this funny little RPG Maker game called The Life of Arthur. In it, you play as the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. You solve a few puzzles Review: Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism Adam Pugsley
Dec 23, 2022 book reviews It’s almost cliché at this point to comment on our overuse of digital media. In 1985, Neil Postman was lamenting our pre-internet electronic ChatGPT is scary Adam Pugsley
Dec 14, 2022 writing I recently read a piece in The Atlantic by Daniel Herman titled The End of High-School English. In the piece, Herman speculates about the impact of Review: Neal Stephenson’s Anathem Adam Pugsley
Dec 11, 2022 book reviews Somewhere in the mountains near Van Horn, Texas, a hollow 500 foot cylindrical passage cuts though the rock. Within this cylinder is a giant The joys of active reading Adam Pugsley
Nov 7, 2022 philosophy & bibliophilia Reading is one of life’s great joys. Discovering a new book that speaks to you feels like a moment of insight into the nature of universe itself, Digging through boxes of books Adam Pugsley
Oct 3, 2022 bibliophilia I was recently gifted two boxes of books. I never personally knew the owner; he was my father’s colleague’s stepfather. After passing, he left The dizzying possibilities of Borges’ The Library of Babel Adam Pugsley
Sep 21, 2022 literary criticism “I repeat: it suffices that a book be possible for it to exist.” From a small corridor a cloaked figure emerges. Raising his gaze, he glances Wisdom and revolt: E.M. Cioran on the impossibility of Taoism Adam Pugsley
Aug 22, 2022 philosophy The only minds which seduce us are the minds which have destroyed themselves trying to give their lives a meaning. These are the words of the Improving the quality of experience Adam Pugsley
Mar 7, 2022 philosophy Consciousness is our most precious gift, and simultaneously the source of our worst suffering. Subjectivity is the most salient feature of our