Book Reviews

Annual Special: Favourite Books of 2024

+ films, series, and amazing people I encountered this year.

Dec 29, 2024 • Vashik Armenikus

Why Was Walt Disney Buying Books in Nazi Germany?

... or how Caspar David Friedrich's paintings and the German Romantic movement inspired Disney's Bambi.

Dec 1, 2024 • Vashik Armenikus

Géricault: What Happens When You Lose Hope

Deconstructing ‘The Raft of Medusa’: A true tale of hope and despair.

Nov 24, 2024 • Vashik Armenikus

Eastern Spirit, Western Mind: How to See the World Through Poetic Eyes

Parallels between the lives of Rainer Maria Rilke and Natsume Sōseki and their path to poetic genius.

Nov 10, 2024 • Vashik Armenikus

Brodsky: On Grief and Reason

Essays by Joseph Brodsky

Oct 20, 2024 • Vashik Armenikus

Archetypes of Creativity: Director, Clown, and Poet.

From Faust: A Tragedy, Book I, Dedication and Prelude on the Stage.

Oct 13, 2024 • Vashik Armenikus

Welcome to Genius & Ink Library 📚

Recent volumes: Botticelli's Secret by Joseph Luzzi, The Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche and much (much!) more...

Oct 6, 2024 • Vashik Armenikus

How to Use Your Enemies

‘Enemies are of more use to the wise man than friends are to the fool.’

Sep 29, 2024 • Vashik Armenikus

Petrarch or Dante: Who Will Guide You in Life?

Note: I am currently reading Joseph Luzzi’s book on Botticelli’s drawings of The Divine Comedy.

Sep 22, 2024 • Vashik Armenikus

Jorge Luis Borges: Why literature is ahead of science?

“Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.”

Sep 1, 2024 • Vashik Armenikus

How to Read Like Leonardo Da Vinci?

A reader should be careful with his reading diet and try not to contaminate himself.

Aug 18, 2024 • Vashik Armenikus

Undressing The Allegory Behind Lady Liberté

Reading the concealed references in Delacroix’s painting.

Aug 4, 2024 • Vashik Armenikus

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