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25265690In a Lacanian framework is there any distinction between a person's dream and their desire? How…[View]
25267367Yeah I'm thinking our guy is bases: He said what happened on October 7th was monstrous and he i…[View]
25262759Just finished War of the Worlds. H. G. Wells is not subtle at all, he tells British people what mart…[View]
25266503Has anyone read this?? Theories on wtf happened?? I have seen some people online claim that the gir…[View]
25267283Anna Karenina: I'm trying to read something during my holidays from work since I've got no…[View]
25255053Who remembers the Star Wars: X-Wing books? I thought they were pretty good! Corran Horn is the perfe…[View]
25255006Why do you read philosophy?[View]
25266276I have somehow never heard of Larry McMurtry ever but lately I've been seeing him mentioned as …[View]
25263346Is there anything more pathetic than a middle-aged man who neglects economic security for his family…[View]
25263451/wng/ — Web Novel General: Bai Ning Bing Edition Stubbed >>25256513 >What is /wng/ — Web No…[View]
25265304Who should receive the Nobel Prize in 2026?: Thomas Pynchon is the most deserving living author to r…[View]
25262884Bolaño: This lil Chilean chudjak is extremely readable. Finished 2666 and reading Nazi Literature in…[View]
25266566>All human existence may be sorted neatly into two categorizes: accepting how things are, or stru…[View]
25262265>Ulysses? Never heard of it, chum.[View]
25266411>Can't write women >Makes the majority of his cast women…[View]
25266943Pick the single book you think a layman who reads it would learn the most that he needs to know abou…[View]
25261394When's the last time you've been to a library?[View]
25265441Books to cope with the fact that I am a mediocre retard only good for working a 9 to 5 and will neve…[View]
25259241*is the living affirmation of BAPian philosophy and rejection of Marxist egalitarianism*[View]
25244329/lwc/ — Lit Writing Competition | May 2026: Previous: >>25182719 & >>25189093 https:…[View]
25264540I noticed that in a lot of arguments of materialism and science: that they are generally weirdly sem…[View]
25263116Hello /lit/, do you think this is a good book for when and where America went wrong? Do you have any…[View]
25266765What does /lit/ think of the Enders game sequels?[View]
25265843Remember: Don't judge a book by its cover, anons.[View]
25255229SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD refuted by Ship of Theseus. Nothing can be said of the emptiness that…[View]
25266463Very wholesome and stereotypically aryan art: i started reading this yesterday. im at page 16. its a…[View]
25265355>the obvious killer gets killed halfway through >book tells you he got shot in the head, and t…[View]
25263034Just started reading this. What am I in for?[View]
25264138I don't have the time to research every world view in depth and weigh which one is best. Just g…[View]
25266235What is even the fucking point of reading anything after reading Bakker? He finished literature. It…[View]
25265186Where's the fucking funny?? Not even a single knock knock joke[View]
25263244reading and writing after casting a nut: It is no surprise to any man that, following ejaculation, h…[View]
25266358>Read P&P >it's just out of touch rich people drama…[View]
25261219Favourite literary paintings/drawings...: I was recently looking at Gustave Dore's artwork, spe…[View]
25260640Can I get a list of books for if you want to be an intellectual goth that drinks red wine every nigh…[View]
25265360Aren't you a little old to be reading fiction?[View]
25262645What translation of the Quran should I read? I want to understand what Muslims are actually reading …[View]
25262596is esoterik kantianism the official philosophy of /lit/?[View]
25264483You don't actually read prefaces and introductions, r-right anon?[View]
25265925Do kids these days still read? Is there room for a modern day Roald Dahl type of figure, or has mode…[View]
25260727Which are the classic japanese pulp stories?[View]
25265532Books like Over the Garden Wall?[View]
25255729Post an image with more talent. You can't.[View]
25258383Is there a right-wing version of Pynchon that empahises natural hierarchy, race and tradition? I lik…[View]
25265025How did she survive the woke era without getting cancelled? Especially in her short stories, she is …[View]
25265856will reading books fix my life[View]
25259284Do you listen to music while reading? I think it should obviously only be instrumental but do you al…[View]
25255718What’s the best supplementary material/commentary on the phenomenology of the spirit? Pls no Marxist…[View]
25264854Who is the better literary personification Capitalist/Epstein class?: Patrick Bateman? >it did no…[View]
25263535Why is Stephen King so disrespected in the literary community?[View]
25261280>read book >listen to music pick one nigga how can you do both?…[View]
25265404Thoughts on this book?[View]
25263248Would Walter Benjamin support AI art?: >Walter Benjamin’s 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanic…[View]
25265433Currently going through Anti-Oedipus, I just have the last section left. Most of it reads as drivel …[View]
25261947why did /lit/ tell me that was a good translation? that sounds awful[View]
25265350>I don’t even like old cars. I mean, they don’t even interest me at all. I'd rather have a g…[View]
25263169Is there some kind of lexicon for Christian relics? I feel like most Christian relics have limited d…[View]
25263008>Writes a “feminist” translation of The Odyssey. But if you didn’t know beforehand that she wrote…[View]
25265255Steve Erickson: Has anyone else on here read anything by him? Currently halfway through Days Between…[View]
25264980>Annihilates Dualism and turns you into a flesh automaton run on chemical batteries…[View]
25261782Popper: He won. The last 40 years of history back him.[View]
25264586What is the best books or genre to read while drinking?[View]
25262514what are some books you would say are 'page turners'?[View]
25264288>Quit my job to read Proust in. French full time >Still on the first page That was 6 months ag…[View]
25264730Calling It: At what point do you stop reading a book? I'm currently reading pic rel. I'm a…[View]
25264153Schopenhauer was an esoterik kantian: >even if Magic were to be ranked as practical Metaphysic, a…[View]
25263810>Odysseus? I've only heard of Ulysses. >Zeus? Hera? Surely you mean Jove and Juno.…[View]
25258686reddit words to avoid: What are words that strike you immediately as 'reddit' when you read them? Il…[View]
25258052Horkheimer on Nietzsche[View]
25256923>in approximately 3000 years, russia will become FIRST WORLD![View]
25261483chat is that true?[View]
25260742How the FUCK does New Directions do it?: >brought W.G. Sebald into English >brought Roberto Bo…[View]
25264406Esoteric Kantianism is just more astroturfing by the Guenon guy isn't it? Be honest. >Guenon…[View]
25249943I'm not saying it was Hegelians...: ok, hear me out[View]
25255887If you can have any /lit/-related wish granted, what would it be?[View]
25264654>being immortal kinda sucks actually >post-scarcity is heckin wrong o algo >if people were …[View]
25263245>it's giving >it's giving How about I GIVE you bitches a book on grammar so you can …[View]
25260996Agenda 2030: Refute this book for me so I'd be able to sleep again, please. Or is 'technofeudal…[View]
25264485I'm the most retarded man to ever wrote a masterpiece: how tf does that even happen? My greates…[View]
25264455Please read my book[View]
25262960The Judgement of Paris: Which one would you choose in 2026 anon? >Becoming king of Europe and As…[View]
25263701>Prefered reading British newspapers papers to German ones because 'they are less filled with lie…[View]
25263572esoterik kantianism truly is the philosophy of /lit/ because previously it was Evolaism/Guenonism bu…[View]
25263684He was weakminded, prone to fantastical belief, a useless man resigned to the most useless study, ph…[View]
25264275What's the best Homer translation to read for someone who plans on rereading Joyce's Ulyss…[View]
25264051E.P.: Did he fake his mental illness to get out of trouble?[View]
25259020I'm going to keep a thread up about the novel Nova Express until people really start talking to…[View]
25261707>Learn to take the sukas with the blyats and stop overthinking things So THIS is the peak of Rus…[View]
25262061The greatest sci-fi novel of all time.[View]
25264978Literature on how men became giga cuckolds: I wish to read some kino lit as to how and why western m…[View]
25263023What does /lit/ think of this trilogy? Reading through it myself and enjoying it quite a bit.[View]
25263814Mainstream Science Is Fake Humiliation Ritual Real Science Is Alternative Holistic Here Is My Proof:…[View]
25263783I’ve been posting about picrel a few weeks ago and I have to say this book is amazing. It sits at th…[View]
25263554What's your opinion on Robertson Davies?[View]
25261859Claude is shit. What AI model is best for critiquing my novel?[View]
25259818Hegel can't adequately resolve his problem of labor alienation, bondage and the master-slave di…[View]
25263388> Been studying basque since I was 3 >every subject at school in that langue >Grammar alway…[View]
25259705Are they seriously just printing books on shittier paper with worse bindings and charging more? Why …[View]
25262285Now I want to read The Three Musketeers.[View]
25262604I will never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ev…[View]
25261739Buddhapunk: So recently I was searching for optimistic 'punks' similars to 'Solarpunk' (I know the s…[View]
25259317>English 6-10 or more words to mean 'smart' >Greek 1 word for 'smart' that means lot's of…[View]
25261216How is this remotely controversial?[View]
25256543Is it a hoax? Is all of it made up or is there bits of truth in it? I'm looking for non-biased …[View]
25263383.[View]
25257940Why don't you sit down and read this?[View]
25260135Beloved fantasy author Christopher Paolini takes issue with Nolan's upcoming adaptation of The …[View]
25263363What are /lit/'s thoughts on: Angelus silesius?[View]
25263265What does /lit/ think about Kenji Siratori?: Just finished pic related, and it might be his best yet…[View]
25259396Write Your Thoughts: previous: >>25254092[View]
25262812How did Lovecraft manage to predict generative AI a century before its invention?[View]
25262612Was Lord Henry/ “Harry” meant to serve as a literary depiction of a Victorian-era Satan? Or is it si…[View]
25262639What happened to mass literacy culture? I remember books, magazines and newspapers used to be in eve…[View]
25263170Why I know IGMI: I need this to work. There's nothing else for me. The stakes are so high that …[View]
25255487>Doesn't reprint books or make more hardcovers Why[View]
25257995>men are so stupid lol >sex sex sex >mindless superficiality >complaining about men …[View]
25261495How many pages should your debut novel have? Not genre fiction, but 'serious'/literary fiction.[View]
25261524Women consume way more literature than men, yet their views on existential issues like birth rates, …[View]
25252096POST AND DISCUSS LIFE AFFIRMING PHILOSOPHERS AND THEIR WORK NO CHRISTKEKS ALLOWED[View]
25260948>Travis Scott will play the role of the Greek poet Demodocus in Ithaca that will sing the story o…[View]
25261830Books read in 2026: Am I fucking retarded? I swear I've been reading like an hour everyday so I…[View]
25244843What was the last book that had this effect on you?[View]
25259671Is there anything like this collection in the original German? It looks from amazon.de like I‘d have…[View]
25262359Which was right about liberal humanist capitalism?: Nietzsche said it was secularized Christianity. …[View]
25228775show me what you read/expected/got[View]
25260843Just finished this version of the Iliad. It was very enjoyable and although challenging, I could und…[View]
25261463THIS IS THE BEST A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE BOOK: Ten pages of 'Fire and Blood' have more thin…[View]
25255859Fucking hell. My gf saw me reading this and broke up with me because she thought I was a nazi.[View]
25260333Trve...[View]
25261260This was the only book I've ever read where I finished it and I was like 'wow that was bad'[View]
25261549Only mediocres are obsessed with originality. Geniuses steal other people's stuff and just make…[View]
25252990DUDE: Idea: Dune, but instead of spice, it's marijuana.[View]
25259707Do you practice the yoyo while reading?[View]
25262300Books hit so fucking hard when you don't have a scholar bitching in your ear[View]
25262202Does magic ever really work in the hands of the protagonist unless it constantly fucks him over?[View]
25260218>the kjv is too difficult! Where did this meme come from? Show me a single verse that is too conf…[View]
25246912The Brothers Karamazov has a very progressive take on Orthodox Christianity and kinda shits on the o…[View]
25255773Feuerbach: >Debunked all religions 180 years ago >Theologists STILL cant refute him, so they p…[View]
25258988An Amazon review of Sun Tzu's 'Art of War'[View]
25257473What are some classics written by men with complex female characters?: I heard Don Quixote was relat…[View]
25258137Is there any reprint publisher worth buying from?[View]
25259114Is this a synchronicity machine? If you follow your own meaning, internally generated, does it becom…[View]
25251953Petersburg: What the fuck is this? I have no idea what I'm reading or what's going on.…[View]
25256809Question? Is Blood Meridian worth reading? Heard its a good book,and that its the book with Judge Ho…[View]
25258661Propaganda: >The whole of the political class struggle revolves around the State. By which I mean…[View]
25259999I'm old enough to admit I'm never going to read this. What are you never going to read?[View]
25261612Should I keep a journal or is that gay af[View]
25259083>it is to be regarded generally as a great misfortune that the people whose culture was to be the…[View]
25257688Post a game get a book rec: Those are always fun[View]
25254618Neanderthal/prehistoric humans books? Like pic rel[View]
25249480Daily reminder that Epicurus wrote over 300 works on philosophy, natural science and ethics that are…[View]
25257856Muriel Spark: she good?[View]
25255074This book won the Pulitzer Prize today. What did we think of it?[View]
25261573Why does this shit sound so fake?[View]
25253825/sffg/ - Science fiction and Fantasy general: Kys bakker fag and screencap nig Previous: >>252…[View]
25246933Han Kang.: Han Kang. Ever heard of her? Is she worth the hype or just a pretty face?[View]
25256513/wng/ — Web Novel General: Surprise Me! Edition Stubbed >>25249800 >What is /wng/ — Web Nov…[View]
25251686Novels about being mentally broken by circumstance?[View]
25247494How do I escape this, philosophically speaking?[View]
25261085I READ PHILOSOPHY ONLY TO MAKE PEOPLE SEETHE (Socratic Gremlin Speedrun): be me tfw no one on this b…[View]
25258728Roadside Picnic & Stalker: I think the meaning of book Roadside Picnic, and both the film versio…[View]
25261256Why did fascists love this play?: Why was Coriolanus Shakespeare's most popular play with fasci…[View]
25259508You just know Kafka's gf was dry as the Atacama desert down there, when she read those emo sadb…[View]
25261077The human campaign in warcraft 3 (not the entire game, just the human campaign and definitely not wo…[View]
25255248Anti-rationalist secular conservative thinkers: Who are your favorites? Who has the right of it? Wh…[View]
25256314>look up writer bio >they were raised by educated parents who invested in their academic succe…[View]
25259372beautiful boy literature: essential boy classics?[View]
25260488Do you read what you're currently excited to read next, or do you put new books at the end of t…[View]
25253245/wg/ - Writing General: Literary Disease Edition /wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.…[View]
25250113Do you guys have any advance or original annotation techniques?: My current system is very critic-es…[View]
25260959There is no society. There are just parallel hierarchies (social circles). Politics is very differen…[View]
25252977mogs blood redditian[View]
25249539Books that help you stop fearing the future and learn to trust God's plan?[View]
25251379Gnostic Peircefag: Over the last few years on /lit/, there was a brilliant yet unstable individual w…[View]
25252258Why did Nietzsche hated so much Euripides? He claimed that Euripides along Socrates had introduced …[View]
25260349Why, in current year, is there still a gap of years between publishing and English translation?[View]
25258705> According to Jewish folklore, specifically the medieval text Alphabet of Ben Sira, Adam's …[View]
25250158who are some good 21st century poets that arent just minorities filled with hubris writing about ide…[View]
25251915Recently finished the Iliad but was surprised that it encompassed a specific part of the whole story…[View]
25257711I'm starting to think that this is a perfect work of philosophy.[View]
25258835the curious incident of the dog in the night-time: Someone lent this to me months ago and I finally …[View]
25260415>It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In hi…[View]
25251403E-Reader thread? Does anyone like/use them? I’m looking to get my first one, and the general recomme…[View]
25256366If Kant were alive today what would he think about the esoteric kantians?[View]
25255386*ends leftism*[View]
25259810esoterik kantianism thread: Esoterik Kantianism is the development, within the rationalist tradition…[View]
25257978R.F. Kuang, bestselling author of novels for over-educated, underbred first-born Asian American daug…[View]
25257423>character is a jaded loner in his late 30s / early 40s who meets gentle but damaged woman who sh…[View]
25257242This book 'Suicidal Empathy' is going to be astroturfed as the key nonfiction text of our time in th…[View]
25253214How cooked will Gen Alpha literature be, chat?[View]
25257316>'A 39-year-old website administrator located in Tokyo, Japan was recently charged with violating…[View]
25257683When are we doing another one of these?[View]
25255965What are the best books on modern masculinity?[View]
25259441They say 'choc our law'. 'Up the RA'. I think of Egyptian sun-gods. 'Our day will come'. Daily, the …[View]
25258870Has anyone here studied Serbian epic poetry? It's probably the last surviving oral bardic tradi…[View]
25259598I like how people close to you are often the last to see your gifts. They can't handle the rela…[View]
25259435>is the greatest children's book ever written How did Grahame do it?…[View]



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