Autore: Robert Zaretsky

The LARB Digital Edition epub is a selection of feature articles from the Los Angeles Review of Books’s History section, personally curated by history editor Robert Zaretsky. …

The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on both sides of the Channel. As the …

Exploring themes that preoccupied Albert Camus–absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation–Robert Zaretsky portrays a moralist who refused to be fooled by the nobler names we assign to our …

In the French Camargue-the delta surrounding the mouth of the Rhone River and part of the southern "nation" of Occitania-the bull is a powerful icon of nationalism, literature, and culture. …

Simone Weil (1909-1943) fue una de las pensadoras más notables del siglo xx, una filósofa que realmente vivió de acuerdo con sus ideales políticos y éticos. En su corta vida enmarcada por las dos gue …

Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders, " Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical …

A timely and nuanced book that sets the author’s experience as a nursing home volunteer during the pandemic alongside the wisdom of great thinkers who confronted their own plagues.In any time of disr …

A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb.In October 1773, after a grueling tr …

Throughout his life, James Boswell struggled to fashion a clear account of himself, but try as he might, he could not reconcile the truths of his era with those of his religious upbringing. Boswell’s …

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Albert Camus declared that a writer’s duty is twofold: "the refusal to lie about what one knows and the resistance against oppression." These twin obse …