
Stephen King’s The Long Walk is a bleak, unsettling story about boys forced to keep moving until only one remains. For me, it became something more—a surprisingly effective metaphor for life, burnout, work, and the pressure to never stop

George Orwell wrote Animal Farm as a warning in 1945. The depressing part is how little has changed. A first time reader reckons with why this 80 year old fable still feels like today’s news.