Literature

Lethe, After Mars

A Memorial Day Requiem

May 25 • Bruno Jenkins

Si Vis Amari, Ama

I learned it from bread and from the hand that breaks it: love is not waited for. It ripens only when given. I loved you as the sea loves the shore—

Feb 5 • Bruno Jenkins

The Watchman Does Not Lose

A Christian reading of The Sunset Limited

Dec 23, 2025 • Bruno Jenkins

An Empire Founded on Love

A reflection from Napoleon’s exile on Saint Helena, in conversation with Pascal, Dostoevsky, and Kierkegaard on the strange authority of Jesus Christ.

Dec 13, 2025 • Bruno Jenkins

The Western Canon

Scriptures + Greeks + Medieval Period to Kierkegaard

Nov 29, 2025 • Bruno Jenkins

The "Canon" of Flannery O'Connor

An Southern Literary Genius

Nov 17, 2025 • Bruno Jenkins

The Ten Books Every Soul Should Wrestle With

From Scripture to Stoicism, from the desert of Blood Meridian to the silence of Wittgenstein.

Nov 5, 2025 • Bruno Jenkins

Oedipus and Job: The Tragedy of Knowing

“The more I seek, the more I see the darkness within me.”

Oct 7, 2025 • Bruno Jenkins

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