On April 14th, in Vermont: As part of Public Philosophy Week, I will be giving a talk at the fabulous Outer Spice Cafe on Route Two...

Young Musil flippantly noted in his journal that he had given up on reading Kant, but was doing just fine nevertheless. Is it really...

As most of you know, I am writing the first English-language biography of Robert Musil for Yale University Press. Here is a review I...

One of my former fellow students from CUNY Graduate Center had the brilliant idea about a year and a half ago to make a Festschrift for...

My review of the fascinating collection of the essays of Henry van de Velde, translated from the French and German by Elizabeth Tucker...

Writing and publishing a book can induce all manner of feelings and anxieties. For me, the publication of Portals: Reflections on the...

Last year I kept a "thinking diary" through to Spring, and it has just been published on Berfrois. If you care to read my thinking, which...

Join us on Sunday, November the 6th from 1:30 t0 3:30 at the Plainfield Opera House for a double reading & book launch for Ellyn Gaydos'...

Some excerpts from my forthcoming Musil translation may be read in Issue 5 of Socrates on Beach: https://socratesonthebeach.com/robert-mu...

Forthcoming from Contra Mundum Press: my translation of Robert Musil: Literature and Politics, by Klaus Amann and Robert Musil, edited...

We mostly live as if the "impossible" can't happen, at least not to us. A persistent denial that buoys us up over our usually small...

When we attempt to understand the world, sometimes we go so deep in, following so many idiosyncratic threads, stitching in so many...

I was asked to do this interview with "15 Questions," a Berlin-based online magazine that mostly features interviews with very...

https://www.ronslate.com/on-of-bridges-a-poetic-and-philosophical-account-by-thomas-harrison/ I had the pleasure of reviewing Thomas...

Over the long and often difficult winter and fall, I wrote this essay, about the dangers of moral certainty, the value of aesthetic and...

It is proverbial that one may see the world more clearly when pausing and looking from a place of meditative peace, but it is also true...

I have been thinking about death lately. Or, rather, about life. All of those questions the collective attempts of centuries have still...

Nabokov says, "I don't think in language, I think in images". George Steiner asks, "Is there, as is felt in dreams and the penumbra of...

Back in the old days, when we were young, back before the pandemic, back before the miseries of the world were delivered, daily and...

Oh, Dear Friends, Dear Readers, where have we been and what have we been doing and thinking and wishing and fearing and forgetting and...