Simone Weil
False gods of war
In Trump’s Situation Room, as on the fields of Ilium, those who wage war seem unable to experience the violence they inflict as real violence.
Down to earth
For philosopher Costica Bradatan, failure delivers self-knowledge in a way that success cannot.
Knitting with Simone Weil
The philosopher’s call to attention reminds me I’m making a difference.
For Simone Weil, philosophy was not merely academic
Robert Zaretsky offers a vivid picture of how truth telling made Weil’s life complicated.
The receptive, reflective act of paying attention
For Simone Weil, paying attention means asking, ”What are you going through?”
Ted Kooser’s poetry of the Great Plains resonates across the world
The beloved American poet lifts the everyday into the realm of the transcendent.
Poetry that bids us welcome
How is it that the poems of a 17th-century aristocrat still resonate with us?
Vibrant, vigorous, and weird
Almost any page of this collection yields the precise puzzling haunting music of Dillard’s mind at work.
Poetic nothingness
This collection is suffused with one of poetry’s most fundamental aims: making meaning out of suffering and loss.