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Why Modern Fiction Stopped Producing Great Characters
The publishing industry stopped searching for psychological depth.
Aug 3
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July 2026
How Columbia University Made Me a Conservative
The lesson I never expected to learn from an Ivy League education.
Jul 27
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Christopher Nolan's Odyssey Has One Fatal Flaw
Why Nolan's Odyssey Doesn't Feel Like Homer
Jul 20
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This One Detail Ruined Christopher Nolan's Odyssey
I just saw Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, and I have many thoughts.
Jul 17
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The Publishing Industry Has a Censorship Problem
I Analyzed the Novel Everyone's Talking About. It Exposes Everything Wrong with Publishing.
Jul 13
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A Love Letter to America on Her 250th Birthday
An Immigrant Kid's Journey to the American Dream
Jul 4
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June 2026
50 Questions Every Serious Reader Should Answer
The books I'd keep, recommend, reread, and gladly forget.
Jun 30
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Dostoevsky's Warning to the Modern World
Podcast Ep. 15 – Crime and Punishment
Published on Athenaeum Book Club
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Jun 26
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The Biggest Misreading of Crime and Punishment
Raskolnikov doesn't murder the pawnbroker for the reason you've been told.
Jun 22
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Why Contemporary Publishing Is Broken
What a Decade in the Query Trenches Taught Me About Modern Literature
Jun 15
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The Russian Word English Can't Translate
There's a Russian word that appears six times in the first four chapters of Crime and Punishment. No English translator has ever understood it…
Jun 8
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How I Became a Russian Jew
The story my parents never told me about why we came to America
Jun 4
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