From Italo Calvino to Virginia Woolf, here’s a list of fun essays to read as we look forward to 2022 and beyond. — Is there anything more fun than reading brilliant essays as we prepare to welcome 2022? Well, there are many of course. …

The Squid Game movie, like its predecessors, does not provide us with a fresh perspective on the future world. It only serves to confirm the popular quote that says, “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” — Rope in hell’s hole On that fateful day, Erdina Sihombing, a 54-year-old mother who sells retail chili peppers at a traditional market in Medan (Indonesia), decided to trust her instincts. …

But after all, prisoners are just humans without freedom, without a crown (P.A.T) — Many writers live normal, peaceful lives without ever having to deal with torture, restraint, or prison — and yet they produce great work. …

Political beliefs and literary works are not mutually exclusive. Therefore, rebels like Gorky belong in the prison, not in the Hall of Honor. — Maxim Gorky was only briefly approached by joy. Three months after his best friend, Anton Chekhov, announced his candidacy for membership in the Imperial Academy of Sciences (now the Russian Academy of Science) — a prestigious institution containing Russia’s most famous scholars — Tsar Nicholas II vetoed the election. …

“Something happened in me after we first saw the buff and started after him. Like a dam bursting. It was pure excitement,” Francis Macomber exclaimed excitedly, insisting that he was no longer afraid of anything. “I feel absolutely different”. Whereas the day before, Macomber was ashamed of himself for trembling…

♫ And above the sea we’ll sail We’ll sink and leave no trails I see your crimson eyes in the horizon The blistering, blinding light, it is your vision Sigmun — In the Horizon (Crimson Eyes/2015) ♫ by Budiarto I have a rather conservative taste for the medium of reading…