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Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 15 May 2026
This is an existentialist play.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2026
Christopher Beha, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
The contrast between the Vietnamese who humped through rice paddies documenting their own country’s existentialist struggle, and the foreigners who flew around on helicopters and were given US military ranks adds emotional depth and historical nuance.
—Literary Hub, 19 Dec. 2025
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Noun
Like its gruesome predecessors, his latest full-length work features adorably designed anthropomorphic animals (and mushrooms) navigating bleak realities and confronting existentialist concerns.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 15 May 2026
This is an existentialist play.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2026
Adjective
This is the atheism of Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger and their existentialist descendants, which begins in precisely the place where scientific materialism leaves off, with the will of the subjective, conscious agent.
—Christopher Beha, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
The contrast between the Vietnamese who humped through rice paddies documenting their own country’s existentialist struggle, and the foreigners who flew around on helicopters and were given US military ranks adds emotional depth and historical nuance.
—Literary Hub, 19 Dec. 2025
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“Existentialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/existentialist. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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