Tag: essays
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What I’m reading: No Straight Road
Given the unending chaos of the past several months, Rebecca Solnit’s No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain is a welcome reminder that change does indeed happen – even when it’s in such an incredibly slow manner that we may not realize it until it’s over. In “Despair is a Luxury,” Solnit…
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What I’m reading: Montaigne in Barn Boots
As a more focused companion to The Socrates Express I wrote about earlier, Michael Perry’s Montaigne in Barn Boots covers just one of Weiner’s philosophers: Michel de Montaigne (more formally, Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne, 1533-1592), often referred to as the father of the modern essay. Oddly enough, since he’s such a vaunted name these days…
CL Pauwels at Large 