In 12 essays, Lipson mines her experience as a case ... a concept reinforced by the likes of Montaigne and Plato. A. Few places in our culture have done justice to the incredible life-changing ...

The person who shares my birthday, back in 1533, is Michel de Montaigne, who invented the personal essay. He inherited great wealth and a title through the efforts of his great-grandfather ...

“The optimism of pessimists is the most interesting kind”, TJ Clark suggests in Those Passions, an exhilarating essay collection summing up a lifetime’s thinking about painting and politics ...