Variety is a part and parcel of all companionship. And because there are all kinds of people making different choices, there is always a possibility of something unusual, magical even, happening to a rather ordinary person. Do we manifest it ourselves? Or are we puppets entertaining our most intuitive and intimate fantasies? In Sputnik...
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
The image of something dark, something underground. If that sounds familiar to you, it means you’re well-acquainted with Haruki Murakami’s work. Dance Dance Dance is a chaotic yet beautifully structured novel. The unnamed protagonist, in search of a lost someone, is ready to delve into the dark side of his existence. The darkness is...

The Search for Lost Things: In Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude
Neither reality nor any other form of describable possibility can tell you what this book’s setting free. You can regard it as a parallel to a life, that is birthed and breathed. Nor can I bring to life the intricate and animated lives that bind One Hundred Years of Solitude. The countless possibilities of...

On the Seemingly Vain Things We Do: In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise
To reach the highest point of something is to expose oneself to the atrocities of what exists on the other side. That, too, is often self-possessing and leaves a person insecure to the dreariness of living. Does this struggle make us desolate and alone, or will we die knowing we thoroughly testified against the...

On Life With Consequences: In Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
The idea around this book, this story that didn’t need practicing or explaining but stemmed from something that was endured. The God of Small Things is a disguise which reveals itself delicately. It’s a vessel constantly overflowing on some days with politics; while love has invariably submerged itself with laws of having emotional and...