Essays

A woman of transcendent intellect who assumed the sufferings of humanity

Elizabeth Hardwick read

New York Times Book Review, (review of Simone Pétrement’s biography of Weil)

The Answer of Minerva: Pacificism and Resistance in Simone Weil

Thomas Merton read

in Thomas Merton, Faith and Violence: Christian Teaching and Christian Practice, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, (book review of Jacques Cabaud: Simone Weil: A Fellowship in Love)

Simone Weil

Susan Sontag read

The New York Review of Books, February 1, 1963, Reviewed: Selected Essays by Simone Weil, Richard Rees, trans., Oxford University Press.