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Lena Herzog on Reading Montaigne Through the Pandemic

Lena Herzog on Reading Montaigne Through the Pandemic

The Quarantine Tapes Podcast with Paul Holdengräber">From The Quarantine Tapes Podcast with Paul Holdengräber

By The Quarantine Tapes | September 23, 2020

Can the Essay Still Surprise Us?

Can the Essay Still Surprise Us?

Suzanne Conklin Akbari Rethinks a Eurocentric Tradition

By Suzanne Conklin Akbari | August 14, 2020

Wayne Koestenbaum Considers Incense, Irish Spring, and, Yes, Some Other Smells

Wayne Koestenbaum Considers Incense, Irish Spring, and, Yes, Some Other Smells

(And, Also, How Montaigne's Ideas Have Left Their Mark)

By Wayne Koestenbaum | May 13, 2020

Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don't Read Too Much.

Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don't Read Too Much.

The Father of the Modern Essay Was Really Quite Unpretentious

By Antoine Compagnon | June 27, 2019

What Was Shakespeare's Central Philosophy?

What Was Shakespeare's Central Philosophy?

Life, like theater, is fundamentally a fiction

By Ed Simon | April 25, 2016

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