Robert Zaretsky

Robert Zaretsky teaches in the Honors College at the University of Houston. He is the author most recently of Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague.

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 3, 2011

Giving Absurdity Its Due

In the Panthéon, Albert Camus joins a kindred soul

By Robert Zaretsky | Monday March 1, 2010

Visions From Jura

By Robert Zaretsky | Thursday May 29, 2025

The Resistance Fighter as Philosopher

By Robert Zaretsky | Thursday February 27, 2025

The Diagnostician of Despair

By Robert Zaretsky | Thursday December 19, 2024

Silent Partner

By Robert Zaretsky | Tuesday September 3, 2024

Nights at the Opera

By Robert Zaretsky | Thursday August 15, 2024

Iris as Pupil

By Robert Zaretsky | Friday March 1, 2024

A State of Perpetual Unease

By Robert Zaretsky | Friday December 15, 2023

Thought Experimenters

By Robert Zaretsky | Monday November 27, 2023

The Decreationist

By Robert Zaretsky | Thursday August 24, 2023

Just Imagine

By Robert Zaretsky | Monday June 5, 2023

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