Overview :"Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried... Read More
Overview :Throughout his life, James Boswell struggled to fashion a clear account of himself, but try as he might, he could not reconcile the truths o... Read More
Overview :A timely and nuanced book that sets the author's experience as a nursing home volunteer during the pandemic alongside the wisdom of five gre... Read More
Overview :Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosoph... Read More
Overview :A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielde... Read More
Overview :In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Albert Camus declared that a writer's duty is twofold: "the refusal to lie about what one knows and th... Read More
Overview :In the French Camargue-the delta surrounding the mouth of the Rhone River and part of the southern "nation" of Occitania-the bull is a power... Read More
Overview :The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they f... Read More