Ros Schwartz’s translation of The Need for Roots makes Weil’s masterpiece feel as urgent today as it was in 1943.

For those struggling to cope with Trump's flurry of executive orders, Simone Weil and 'The Iliad' offer useful guidance.

A note about the meeting of the minds between populists and techno elites.

Suzanna Murawski on Simone Weil, an art heist & Picasso in Cleveland.

Do you have to believe in God to join a religious order?” asks the narrator of Charlotte Wood’s “Stone Yard Devotional.” The question would seem to be rhetorical, since the unnamed, middle-aged ...

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity,” the modern French philosopher Simone Weil said, summing up the opportunity. My small self-challenge had a direct and outsized halo ...

Police officers and paramedics were called to the accident along the A28 Simone Weil Avenue, in Ashford, at around 1.30pm today (November 23). They attended the scene near Warren Retail Park which ...

It barely mentions other traditions, such as Sufism or Jewish Kabbalah, and there is too little on more modern mystics, such as Carl Jung and Simone Weil. But the book’s power is that it treats ...

HHS secretary Donna E. Shalala (second from right) greets her French counterpart Simone Weil (second from left) as World Health Organization director Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima (left) shakes hands with ...

The Little Flower, she of the astonishing self-love? Hildegard of Bingen, glowing like rock crystal, or Simone Weil, picking herself like a scab? Teresa of Avila, a chilly forehead and a warm thigh, ...