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

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As Simone Weil once pointed out, paying attention equates to prayer. A dazzling discovery has captivated the art world as Sir Anthony van Dyck’s Andalusian Horse—his first grand-scale depiction of a ...

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 ...

The Philharmonic under Karina Canellakis didn’t make many waves with Debussy’s La Mer, despite accurate and energetic playing ...

An indeterminate religiosity pervades much existentialist writing. In some cases – Shestov and Simone Weil, the Catholic thinker Gabriel Marcel and the later work of Emmanuel Levinas, for example – ...

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

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 ...

Captivating, empowering and appropriately uncomfortable, “Nina Simone: Four Women” delivered a message I think everyone ...

It’s the start of a new week, and that means a new Featured New Release of the Week – this time from acclaimed British ...

Viewing art, as with its making, involves paying attention. As Simone Weil once pointed out, paying attention equates to prayer. is a watershed in 20th-century British Modern Art history, representing ...

Making an early bid for AOTY Jules Reidy hits their stride with a unique combination of micro tuning, Auto-Tune & ecstatic ...