MOST RECENT ESSAY
Journeying East
"So when you see the title of this novel, it makes perfect sense that Hesse would write a novel called that, and it’s only fitting that the journey eastward in this novel is itself a re-imagining of his own career..."
RECENT UPDATES
- 09/16: Journeying East in Essays
- 08/31: Communication Technologies & Compulsive Behaviour: A Personal Analysis in Essays
- 08/21: Hermann Hesse Overview in Features
- 08/19: My Friend Who Died in Essays
- 08/03: Personality and Self in Essays
- 07/21: Day 4 of the Mid-June Journal Vol 2
- 06/03: Trapped in Costco in Essays
- 05/22: Updated Natsume Soseki Overview in Features
- 05/08: Enlightenment in Essays
- 04/19: I Don't Tell Stories in Essays
- 03/22: I Don't Need to Travel, For the World is Merely My Idea in Essays
- 03/07: By Hook or By Crook: Part Four in Features
- 03/01: Philosophical Honesty (Of Two Worlds #3) in Essays
- 02/21: Don't Let The World Get To You (Of Two Worlds #2) in Essays
- 02/14: Escape From Reality (Of Two Worlds #1) in Essays
BEST OF BALCKWELL
Personal
- The Weather Is Going to Get Cold Soon...
- Can I Ride Upon A Cloud?
- Being Hit With A Stick
- Heaven & Good Things
- In a Town Where I Am Going To Live
- A Retreat to the Customs Office
- What More Could You Ask For?
- Hello, Japan. Goodbye, My Japan (RAINICHI 2023 #-001)
- Reach Out to the Truth of My Life (Part One) (Part Two)
- When Conversation is Impossible
- The Graveyard Story
- You Can (Not) Go Back
- What The Hell Am I Doing Here?
- The Internet Made Me Stupid
- Irreconcilable Distances, Permeable Boundaries, Overlapping Memories
"Criticism"
- Apolitical Borges
- In The Eyes of the Unfathomable Deity
- Call Him Ishmael
- A Dream of Red Mansions
(Dream of the Red Chamber), Cao Xueqin - By Hook or By Crook: A Hater's Quest to Enjoy Shakespeare
- Demian, Herman Hesse
- Frankenstein, or
the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelling - A Brief Introduction: Pierre, or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
- Kafka’s Nightmares
- In Xanadu
- The Boy and the Heron
- The Daikon Farmer Points the Way, With a Daikon
- Neil Young's Mesoamerica