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Reader's Digest: May 27, 2023
I had forgotten most of what I knew about Jim Ede, the ill-used Tate curator who established Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, a sanctuary I loved—without…
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Work / Life
Not long ago, a journalist I know asked me to talk to her about “work-life balance”: she was writing a piece on the subject and wanted a philosophical…
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Reader's Digest: May 13, 2023
Ryle was chairman of the board…. Thus the irreplaceable Tom Nagel in a quietly polemical review of Nikhil Krishnan’s survey of “ordinary language…
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The Philosophic Buddha
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That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
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That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
Philosophers have been puzzled by the fact that grief fades. If one form of grief is responsive to the death of someone you love—not to its impact on…
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Listener's Digest: April 29, 2023
Having vowed to give up reading books, I here confess my abject failure. I’ve not only read, but reviewed, two new ones: Wendy Brown’s Nihilistic Times…
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The Philosophic Buddha
I’ll admit it: I am not a fan of Buddhism. I’m aware that this doesn’t sound good—like confessing to contempt for puppies or to harbouring doubts about…
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Reader's Digest: April 15, 2023
Having recently read two books about curation, I run the risk of reflexivity: would I recommend these books to other readers? I refuse to say. Hans…
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How to Read a Book
When I first read philosophy as a teenager, I didn’t know what I was reading. I did not know that you could question what a great philosopher said, or…
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Reader's Digest: April 1, 2023
This seems as good a day as any to announce that I will never read another book. It’s the result of reading a book, Against the Written Word: Toward a…
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The Desire to Write
I’ve been having trouble writing. I don’t usually find it so hard. Doing philosophy: that’s hard. Having good ideas, if and when I do, a miracle. But…
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Reader's Digest: March 18, 2023
In a recent TLS, Richard Beard reviewed The Lascaux Notebooks, a collection of verse attributed to Jean-Luc Champerret. It’s described by the publisher…
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The Sense of an Ending
Adam Kirsch’s recent book, The Revolt Against Humanity, is not what you’d expect. Despite the title, it’s an oddly unpolemical account of tendencies in…
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