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Existentialism
It was still hot
On love, existentialism and Where the Wild Things are by Maurice Sendak
Jul 7
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Meg Fawthrop
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Empathy Is Not Innocence
On love, empathy and forgiveness in Alchemised by SenLinYu and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Jan 6
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Meg Fawthrop
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Why Couldn’t Esther Greenwood Ever Choose a Life?
On The Bell Jar, Sartre, Beauvoir, and why choosing a life feels impossible when every option threatens your authenticity.
Dec 16, 2025
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Meg Fawthrop
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Glinda the Good? The Cost of Performance and The Banality of Goodness
What Wicked, Beauvoir, and Arendt reveal about power, complicity, and the selves we perform to survive.
Nov 21, 2025
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Meg Fawthrop
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All Men Are Mortal: On the futility of immortality
On Max Winter's short story, 'bunny never sleeps', Simone de Beauvoir and the beauty of dying.
Nov 10, 2025
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Meg Fawthrop
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The Authenticity of Being Bunny — The Secret History, Authenticity and Instagram
On The Secret History, Sartre, and Baudrillard — and why being “authentic” is harder in a world built on performance.
Oct 19, 2025
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Meg Fawthrop
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Drawing the Moustache: A Five Year Sentence, Loneliness, Sartre, and AI
How A Five Year Sentence and Sartre show the terror of trying to be authentic inside a narrative built for you.
Jun 26, 2025
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Meg Fawthrop
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