Robert Zaretsky

Robert Zaretsky teaches history at the Honors College at the University of Houston, and is the author, most recently, of Boswell's Enlightenment.

A history in ten books

A literary critic’s ugly deception

Not exactly Yeats, but noteworthy nonetheless

Once the sport of daredevils, skydiving now offers it existential thrills to grandmothers, pudgy geeks, and even the occasional college professor

In the Panthéon, Albert Camus joins a kindred soul