Thanks Always Returns: 3 books

Shalom is a creative intellectual who becomes world-weary and cynical from an early age. Sick of observing his family and those around him expecting Jesus to arrange easy atonement for coldness and cruelty, he seeks true redemption by agreeing to go to hell himself. The hell he experiences is revealed...

This Chinese spiritual classic, attributed to the venerated thinker Lao Tzu, is foremost a work of poetry. In Chinese, it rhymes, but verse alone isn’t the beauty of this work. It’s Lao Tzu’s masterful use of metaphor that makes it unique – metaphor that doesn’t translate readily into modern...

From how nerds came to have their marginal social status, to the motives of the nerd, the bully, and the culture alike, this collection alternating between rhymed and free verse concludes with a technoscenti's response to Noam Chomsky's stance regarding the responsibility of intellectuals.