Yeshua Tolle
Shabbat Reading: Harry Mulisch's The Discovery of Heaven
Imagine The Da Vinci Code as a novel of ideas...
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Yeshua Tolle
Feb 253 min read
Shabbat Reading: William Golding's The Spire
Golding’s perpetual subject was my darkness and yours, the darkness in all of us.
Yeshua Tolle
Feb 183 min read
Shabbat Reading: The Odyssey
Some translations, like some books, endure. E. V. Rieu's Odyssey endures.
Yeshua Tolle
Feb 114 min read
Shabbat Reading: Tim Parks's Out of My Head
Is everything I experience just in my head?
Yeshua Tolle
Feb 51 min read
from My Commonplace Book (incomprehension)
"Perhaps what happened cannot be comprehended, or, rather, shouldn’t be comprehended, because to comprehend is almost to justify."
Yeshua Tolle
Feb 44 min read
Shabbat Reading: Milan Kundera's A Kidnapped West
A short book with an outsized impact.
Yeshua Tolle
Jan 213 min read
Shabbat Reading: Romain Gary/Émile Ajar's The Life Before Us
The Life Before Us is the coming-of-age story of a foul-mouthed Arab orphan boy.
Yeshua Tolle
Jan 141 min read
Shabbat Reading: Albert-László Barabási's Linked
If you ever wondered how six degrees of separation works, this is the book for you.
Yeshua Tolle
Jan 71 min read
Shabbat Reading: Henry James's The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw is a ghost story. It’s also a character study in compulsion, and perhaps deception.
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