Modern Wisdom

Albert Camus's 'The Stranger' (also known as 'The Outsider') is a classic existentialist novel that ...

Albert Camus's novel 'The Plague' is an allegorical work set in the Algerian city of Oran, where a d...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Notes from Underground' is a pioneering work of existentialist literature. It p...

The Harry Potter series, written by J.K. Rowling, is a beloved fantasy saga comprising seven books t...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's novella is a foundational work of existentialist literature. It presents the fra...

A novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1864. It is considered one of the first existenti...

The Harry Potter series, written by J.K. Rowling, is a globally acclaimed fantasy book series that c...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic American novel, 'The Scarlet Letter,' published in 1850, is a powerful...

A philosophical novel by Alain de Botton that explores the complexities of a modern romantic relatio...

A classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, which tells the tragic s...

"The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho is a novel that tells the story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd ...

"Catch-22" is a satirical war novel that is brought up in the podcast to exemplify the notion of 'ha...

A science fiction novel appreciated for its unique style and storytelling. The guest notes it's his ...

A satirical postmodern novel by Kurt Vonnegut, which uses science fiction elements and a non-linear ...

An epic novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851, that tells the story of Captain Ahab's ob...

A utopian novel by behaviorist B.F. Skinner, which describes a fictional experimental community that...

Erich Maria Remarque's classic novel, 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' offers a harrowing and poign...