Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
The title of this book is borrowed from Dostoevsky’s weirdest novel, The Demons, formerly translated as The Possessed, which narrates the descent into madness of a circle of intellectuals in a remote Russian province: a situation analogous, in certain ways, to my own experiences in graduate school.
Elif Batuman • The Possessed
Sostiene Pereira, I say, by Antonio Tabucchi.
Mohsin Hamid • Discontent and Its Civilizations
filled with the kind of determined cheer that masked a deeper despair.
Ruth Ozeki • The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel
