Main Essays

Benjamín Labatut's fiction and the insanity of scientific rationality

On Benjamín Labatut’s The MANIAC, his thoughts on writing and fiction, and humanity tiktok-ing its way to annihilation

Mar 21 •

Yashvardhan Jain

All The Lives We Cannot Live

On happiness, choice, and the liberating meaninglessness of our finite lives

Jan 2 •

Yashvardhan Jain

The desire to quit reading and writing in the technological age.

Or, David Foster Wallace asks, "Why are we watching so much shit?"

Dec 26, 2024 •

Yashvardhan Jain

Fyodor and the Foxhole

Or, the search for meaning in a meaningless life.

Sep 2, 2024 •

Yashvardhan Jain

I could write my Magnum Opus but I simply go to bed

Or, my struggles with choosing my creative self.

Aug 5, 2024 •

Yashvardhan Jain

What we lose when AI creates art

Or, it's not art if it is made by AI.

Jun 30, 2024 •

Yashvardhan Jain

Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide

Genius is fragile. Success, even more so. What does it mean then for an artist to fail?

Jun 8, 2024 •

Yashvardhan Jain

On Running, Writing, and Life: Some Advice from Haruki Murakami

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life — and for me, for writing as…

May 30, 2024 •

Yashvardhan Jain

The Book Thief And The Power Of Words

"I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right."

May 30, 2024 •

Yashvardhan Jain

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