September: Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

For our next Mind Over Midnight gathering, we’ll be diving into Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, a work that confronts us with the raw contradictions of human nature.

The Underground Man forces us to question whether freedom is truly liberating or a trap that leads us into self-destruction. As we meet, we’ll explore how his bitterness, self-awareness, and rebellion against rationality mirror the struggles of modern existence. Does his voice expose universal truths about alienation and the futility of seeking meaning, or is he merely a grotesque exaggeration of human despair? Come ready to wrestle with the darkness and ask whether the Underground is a place we all inhabit, at least some of the time.