The Humanities Notebook
Heba Hallak, AsifDocumenting my love for the humanities one post at a time.
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What I've Been Studying Lately: Spring 2026
Spring swept in with its usual grace early in April. The deep blue of the sky was a welcome sight (months of wintry gloom really tend to make one forget what blue looks like) and so was the green that suddenly matted the floor of the villag...
Random Fiction I'll Always Recommend (Vol. I)
Note: the reviews in this post are spoiler-free.
It is said that reading is a solitary activity, but I think a reader is seldom alone. Even in the confines of their bedroom, in the stillness of a late night when company is most unli...
In Class with Brandon Sanderson
“I would bet that there are a million people in the world who want to write a book. And I would bet that less than 1% of them do. If you finish a novel, you are among the elite, and you are my colleague.”
This is how best-selling author...
How I Learn New Words
Language is one of those everyday things that tend to be undervalued.
We think we ought to be poets to appreciate its aesthetics, and linguists to understand its intricacies. But language was made for the common man. It has evolved and ex...
The Sinister Mind of Daphne du Maurier
Note: this article contains minor spoilers for The Birds, Monte Verità, and The Apple Tree.
In a feature for The Observer, literary critic Kate Kellaway once referred to Daphne du Maurier as the mistress of calculated irresolution....
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Brazilian Lebanese reader, writer, and lifelong learner.
Taking a critical spiritual eye to life. Educator. Anthropologist. Scholar of Islam and performance. Author of Making Muslimness. Online at www.asifmajid.com and on Substack at "Deeds and Du'as"
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