Robert Zaretsky's books include Boswell's Enlightenment, A Life Worth Living, Catherine & Diderot, and The Subversive Simone Weil. A columnist for the Jewish Daily Forward, he is also a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, the Times Literary Supplement, and Slate.
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In any time of disruption or grief, many of us seek guidance in the work of great writers who endured similar circumstances. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, historian and biographer Robert Zaretsky did the same while also working as a volu... SEE MORE