Robert Zaretsky is the author, most recently, of Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment. His new book, The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas, will be published in February 2021.
Robert Zaretsky
The Bloom Has Faded
Reforming the Western canon may not go far enough
by Robert Zaretsky | Monday, June 22, 2020
Meditations on Marcus
The philosopher-emperor who reigned during an age of pandemic and war
by Robert Zaretsky | Saturday, August 08, 2020
Love in the Time of Camus
What the French writer can teach us about surviving a pandemic
by Robert Zaretsky | Thursday, May 14, 2020
The Long 20th Century of Terror
A history in ten books
by Robert Zaretsky | Thursday, August 18, 2016
My Life as a Door
Not exactly Yeats, but noteworthy nonetheless
by Robert Zaretsky | Friday, June 01, 2012
Plunging to Earth
Once the sport of daredevils, skydiving now offers it existential thrills to grandmothers, pudgy geeks, and even the occasional college professor
by Robert Zaretsky | Friday, June 03, 2011
Giving Absurdity Its Due
In the Panthéon, Albert Camus joins a kindred soul
by Robert Zaretsky | Monday, March 01, 2010
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