Hannah Arendt selection at City Lights Who does she sit next to on your bookshelf?

At Point Reyes Books Girl: I want to go to the lighthouse. Guy: It's like two hundred stairs! Girl: So Guy: I don't know... Girl: We saw it earlier, it didn't look so bad Guy: You can do it, I'm good.

Robert Hass, Privilege of Being

Hannah Arendt teaching at the New School for Social Research

Barry Lopez

"[R]eally good teachers are not thought of highly by the academic society. This business of 'publish or perish' has been a catastrophe. People write things which should never have been written and which should never be printed. Nobody's interested." — Hannah Arendt

"I'm not so orderly as to produce syllabi for my students. I'm busy enough trying to teach them." — Hannah Arendt

Spotted Heather Clark's brilliant biography of Sylvia Plath at The Depot in Mill Valley, one of my favorite little bookstores

Hannah Arendt's syllabus for Machiavelli to Marx from 1965

William Butler Yeats reading his poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree youtube.com/watch?v=QLlcvQ…

Hannah Arendt's Final Examination for the History of Political Theory from 1955

One of Hannah Arendt's postwar poems from What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt is in the Fall issue of The Paris Review!

“This was the farewell: Many friends came with us and whoever did not come was no longer a friend.” From “This was the farewell …” by Hannah Arendt, translated by Samantha Rose Hill with Genese Grill, in our Fall issue. buff.ly/3z8UXYK

Sneak peak at the new translation of Arendt's poems. Samantha Rose Hill Genese Grill

From forthcoming What Remains: The Collected Poetry of Hannah Arendt, translated& edited by Samantha Rose Hill (with brilliant introduction), with translation collaboration by myself, & special editing care by Haley Bracken. Out on December 10th Liveright Books,

“This was the farewell: Many friends came with us and whoever did not come was no longer a friend.” “This was the farewell …” by Hannah Arendt, translated by Samantha Rose Hill with Genese Grill in our new Fall issue. buff.ly/3z8UXYK

Can thinking condition us against doing evil? If you're in NYC, please go to this wonderful event next Friday afternoon to celebrate and discuss the publication of the critical edition of Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind!

“These unsparing, literate, and surprisingly candid poems offer a fascinating new angle on one of the 20th century’s great minds.” Yes, they do! Congratulations on an exceptional pre-pub review, Samantha Rose Hill Genese Grill publishersweekly.com/9781324090526

So wonderfully excited to see the first review of What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt!! December 10th.