Subtle Digressions

The answer must be in the attempt.

so long, 2025...

11 hrs ago • Yashvardhan Jain

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December 2025

How I discovered Knausgaard and his Struggle (Book 1/6)

"Life’s a pitch, as the old woman said. She couldn’t pronounce her ‘b’s." — Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle Book 1

Dec 29, 2025 • Yashvardhan Jain

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November 2025

The Space Between

Poetry Issue #1

Nov 20, 2025 • Yashvardhan Jain

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August 2025

tsundoku.

On the antilibrary, life's finitude, and preservation.

Aug 1, 2025 • Yashvardhan Jain

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June 2025

Mausoleum of Memories

Fiction Issue #3: Flash Fiction

Jun 28, 2025 • Yashvardhan Jain

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March 2025

No one saves us in this world, but people give us the tools so that we can transform towards our own rescue

Personal Digressions: Some thoughts on the masks we hide behind, on truth, and the point of fiction

Mar 27, 2025 • Yashvardhan Jain

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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, 2025 • Yashvardhan Jain

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February 2025

Waiting For What Never Was

Fiction Issue #2 : A Short Story

Feb 15, 2025 • Yashvardhan Jain

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The magic in-between the ordinariness

A guest post by Yashvardhan Jain

Published on Beyond the Bookshelf • Feb 5, 2025

January 2025

All The Lives We Cannot Live

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

Jan 2, 2025 • Yashvardhan Jain

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December 2024

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

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October 2024

Where would dreams go if you could give them up?

"Here's to the ones who dream, foolish as they may seem. Here's to the hearts that ache..."

Oct 14, 2024 • Yashvardhan Jain

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