James Baldwin

This Saturday at 11am!

Can't wait to talk about love and disobedience with Lyndsey Stonebridge and Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine

It was such a pleasure and a meaningful event that I participated in London to hear Lyndsey Stonebridge & Samantha Rose Hill discussing Lyndsey’ new book on We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience. Many thanks are due to The Philosopher

🔳 Paul Auster, R.I.P.

“As my friend George Oppen once said to me, about getting old, 'what a strange thing to happen to a little boy''

Am thrilled to share the beautiful cover for ‘Home is Where we Start’ designed by incredible artist Sophy Hollington.
I’m bowled over by early readers' responses to my memoir❤️🔥.
You can read them here & pre-order:
Huge 🙏 Fig Tree Jessica Craig

penguin.co.uk/books/457409/h…

Read Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition with me this July!

And decide if, after all, Virginia Woolf was (or not) wrong about illness. Thank you Thomas Mann House Samantha Rose Hill and Paul Holdengraber

Brilliantly matched! Samantha Rose Hill Paul Holdengraber

I always look forward to Samantha Rose Hill 's substack, and this week did not disappoint. It included Arendt's personal narrative (c 1963) to Jewish Currents on her relationship to Zionism.

Highly recommend this substack.
samantharosehill.substack.com

Last month Thomas Mann House in LA Paul Holdengraber led us on a pilgrimage to Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain at 100. We travelled from Virginia Woolf on illness, to Jan Morris in Trieste, to Weber on disenchantment. If it was 3 weeks or 7 years, I cannot say
youtube.com/watch?v=gSs_00…

Epigraphs from Charlotte Beradt's The Third Reich of Dreams

Desk view

From the archive: A debate between Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt, and Connor Cruise O'Brien moderated by Robert B. Silvers on 'The Legitimacy of Violence as a Political Act' from 1967

chomsky.info/19671215/

In this week's newsletter, from the archive: Hannah Arendt describing her changing relationship to Zionism for Jewish Currents in 1963 amidst the Eichmann fallout

samantharosehill.substack.com/p/from-the-arc…

Some of my favorite digital archives

Emily Dickinson's Herbarium: iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view……

Walter Benjamin Digital: walter-benjamin.online

Hannah Arendt's Papers: memory.loc.gov/ammem/arendtht……

NYPL Digital Collections: digitalcollections.nypl.org

April 22, 1969.

Theodor Adorno's Aesthetics class at the Goethe University in Frankfurt

Women engage in “Busenaktion.” Protestors confront Adorno, Adorno calls the police. Students chant: “If Adorno is left in peace, capitalism will never cease!”

'Love of comfort is really not compatible with consideration for others.'

— Sigmund Freud, on wish-fulfilment

Attn #TTPD : WHAT REMAINS: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF HANNAH ARENDT (12.10.24) is available now for preorder, and no cardigan or era is complete without it: wwnorton.com/books/97813240…

💥 CONGRATULATIONS
.Samantha Rose Hill ‼️
Looking forward to reading
“What Remains”
Bravo Genese Grill ‼️

Cool to see my little book in the window of one my favorite bookshops!

So excited to be in conversation with Lyndsey Stonebridge and Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine about Hannah Arendt Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop

May 4th!