Last Tango
A bad potboiler is not made better by stylish writing; it is made worse.
In a Hotel
There is a familiar feeling here: existential dread, impending doom, a light dose of despair.
The Egoists and the Altruists
The philosophical divide doesn’t neatly correspond with our political divide. There are egoists on all sides, just as there are altruists.
In Through the Out Door
An abandoned—or abandoning—god might also reappear.
The Elon Effect
Are we both perpetrators and victims of the Elon Effect?
Man Thinks, God Laughs
Kundera’s novels are expansive and support irreconcilable yet arguably valid points of view.