Lydia Davis reads her essay on Arles, recorded for the Trilling Lecture at Columbia University in 2019.
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Jul 5
Poetry and the Turning World: Food
The most popular modern food poem is probably William Carlos Williams’s ‘This Is Just to Say’, in which the speaker confesses to eating the plums his wife was saving for breakfast. Food has often been a means for poetry to represent intimate relationships, but, as Sarah and Sande ... Show More
1h 23m
Apr 2024
Human Conditions: ‘The Human Condition’ by Hannah Arendt
In the fourth episode of Human Conditions, the last of the series with Judith Butler, we fittingly turn to The Human Condition (1956). Hannah Arendt defines action as the highest form of human activity: distinct from work and labour, action includes collaborative expression, coll ... Show More
12m 34s
<p>Daisy Edgar-Jones (Hulu's "Normal People") reads Kyleigh Leddy's essay, about the online presence people leave behind.</p>
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