Reading and Writing

Books don't move you? Perhaps you haven't found just the right books yet. It's not too late to feel the pain, or as Kafka said: ...

What to do when you need a moment of peaceful time just for yourself? "Becoming engrossed in a good book or a crossword really can bloc...

Are you tired of wars waged by wealthy plutocracy, in which only the poor are dying? So did the Russians during the First World War. They fo...

Do you ever feel lost? "All true histories contain instruction", said Anne Bronte. Find your instructions in fiction, it too conta...

Literature will set you free: "A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of t...

"...let us bear in mind, rather, the numberless writers who, dissatisfied with the page which they have just written, if they read some...

An old Arabic proverb says: "He who lends a book is an idiot . He who returns the book is more of an idiot." Here's an opport...