For those struggling to cope with Trump's flurry of executive orders, Simone Weil and 'The Iliad' offer useful guidance.
Ros Schwartz’s translation of The Need for Roots makes Weil’s masterpiece feel as urgent today as it was in 1943.
Simone Weil, in her ponderously titled but wonderfully argued essay ... at another point when it probably felt like paying attention to Latin exercises or work meetings was perhaps not quite what the ...
Simone Weil was born to a fairly well-off Jewish family ... Weil’s life and death are significant to fully understanding her body of work. Her writing, which vacillates easily between analytical ...
His observation brought to mind the words of Simone Pétrement, biographer and friend of Simone Weil, the 20th-century French philosopher. Weil had been a Marxist in the early years of her ...
Suzanna Murawski on Simone Weil, an art heist & Picasso in Cleveland.