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Somewhere around thirteen or fourteen, the big questions arrive. Who am I? Where do I fit? Does any…

What Søren Kierkegaard wrote in the nineteenth century speaks to the questions that still define our lives: anxiety,…

Marcus Aurelius never meant for anyone to read his most famous work. He was writing to himself—private notes…

For decades, Simone de Beauvoir was treated as a footnote to Jean-Paul Sartre – his companion, his disciple, his echo. That…

As creator of the Eisner-nominated philosophical graphic novel The Labyrinth, I learned my most important lesson from Socrates…

We do not say “novels for adults” or “films for adults.” Yet people are looking for “graphic novels…

The best Sartre books to start with are Existentialism Is a Humanism (accessible 100-page overview) and No Exit…

What does it mean to exist when the dominant stories don’t include you? For decades, LGBTQ+ people have…

Graphic memoirs are autobiographies told in comics, where panels, gutters, and the interplay of word and image recreate…

Why Nihilism Books Matter More Than Ever I first encountered Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy through his famous declaration that…