Allergic to nuance and abstraction, Simone Weil produced a piercingly clear call to oblige the “needs of the soul”... more »
On loving Wordsworth. He was “a solemn and unsexual man” with a talent for making you believe things without really telling you what they were... more »
“The way to one’s own heaven,” wrote Nietzsche, “always leads through the voluptuousness of one’s own hell.” Could happiness exist without hell?... more »