Schopenhauer & Friends

This famous French novelist is a student of Schopenhauer — and a controversial prophet of pessimism

Some notes on despair, desire, and determination in Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays

Philosophy and physics — with a feline spin

This intriguing graph displays all the reciprocal links in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

With colorful illustrations + advice from Dante, Schopenhauer, Thornton Wilder, and some other person

Trolling Hegel, then and now (+ a party favor)

A slow fading ends . . .

Some connected designs of life and fiction

Play It as It Lays, and the freedoms of interpretation

Two early reviews refract the strange light of Didion’s novel

Didion co-wrote the screenplay for this faithful but almost-forgotten adaptation of her novel

She’s unusually relaxed in this fascinating 1977 interview . . .