Nights at the Opera
Long before he wrote his masterly novels, Stendhal was transformed by the power of music
Iris as Pupil
Before this canonical English writer published novels, she was a student of French postwar philosophy
A State of Perpetual Unease
Sartre’s essay on French anti-Semitism cast the problem in existential terms
Thought Experimenters
Making sense of a broken world
The Decreationist
Simone Weil’s thoughts on the unmaking of the self
Just Imagine
Adam Smith on the faculty that makes us human
Putting the Story Back in History
Hayden White on truth, facts, and the allure of a well-told tale
The Friend Zone
Mary Wollstonecraft’s ideas on what makes a marriage tick were downright radical for their time
Words, Words, Words
What does the advent of ChatGPT mean for already beleaguered teachers?
The Affair Rekindled
Remembering the plight of Dreyfus and the effect it had on a young Marcel Proust
