Summer Courses: The Waves, a six week dive into the literature and philosophy of loneliness, and a retreat to Thoreau's Walden. Also: Purgatorio, a writing workshop, how to memorize a poem, and introduction to archival research samantharosehill.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

“What is the phrase for the moon? And the phrase for love? By what name are we to call death? I do not know. I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room..." — Virginia Woolf, The Waves

In French class we received a kissing map so we will know how many kisses to give depending on where we go in France

Far from the snow

When Hannah Arendt described finding her husband by chance in the South of France at the village market next to a stack of mattresses I always had a hard time picturing what that looked like, until this morning.

Spring walk

Carcassonne’s torture museum has a display of a writer collapsed at his desk.

se abdere in bibliothecam suam to bury oneself in one's library

"Are you the one," I ask, "whom Dante hear dictate the lines of his Inferno?" She answers: "Yes." — Anna Akhmatova

Tonight! at 6pm ET (online) Join me for a conversation with Barbara Wansbrough bout her debut book, Wild Things: A Geography of Grief Link here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

W.S. Merwin

Racism is and has always been central to fascist political ideology.

Thank you to everyone who donated and attended the reading of Hannah Arendt's essay "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship" last night. Here's the recording: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship Playback

A special reading group in solidarity with Minnesota

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For more about Arendt, take a listen to the conversation with @jackewilson.bsky.social and Samantha Rose Hill about her biography of Arendt. #books #hannaharendt @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

512 Hannah Arendt (with Samantha Rose Hill) | My Last Book with …

Born to a German-Jewish family in 1906, Hannah Arendt became one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century. Her works, including The Origins …

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Samantha Rose Hill@samantharhill.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Take a journey through Hannah Arendt's life and work with me this February at the JTA, where we'll explore the key concepts and ideas that animate Arendt's work through a close reading of The Human Condition! Registration: my-jewish-learning.teachable.com/p/hannah-are... 20% discount code: HUMAN20

Take a journey through Hannah Arendt's life and work with me this February at the JTA, where we'll explore the key concepts and ideas that animate Arendt's work through a close reading of The Human Condition! Registration: my-jewish-learning.teachable.com/p/hannah-are... 20% discount code: HUMAN20

In response to the unfolding terror in Minnesota I wanted to create a space to come together. I’m hosting a book club on Hannah Arendt’s essay Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship next Tuesday to raise money for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota samantharosehill.substack.com/p/a-special-bo

Teaching Kafka tonight

Louise Glück

“Defensive shots” is Orwellian language for a gang of masked armed state agents firing at least ten shots into a man pinned face-down in the street. They don't need a reason, they'll make one up after the fact. Political lies become common speech to cover up crimes.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 7mo ago

Bovino: "The agents attempted to disarm the individual, but he violently resisted. Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, a Border Patrol agent fired defensive shots…This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement."

This is how fascism comes to America. It’s the endless events, day after day, until one day you wake up in a different country. Anti-immigrant rhetoric, censorship, attacks on universities, masked terror squads murdering people in the streets, enemy lists, denaturalization, camps

Macron Davos 2026 directed by Godard

"A lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history." — Hannah Arendt

Favorites thinkers, writers, and philosophers of desire? (living)

Only one other person in history has accepted a Nobel prize as a gesture of thanks

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meet Brontë She loves speaking French, ear scratches, and sleeping.

From the ever brilliant and courageous Louise Adler who is a champion of writers, free speech, and democratic values in dark times www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler

Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation

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Perfect start to the day with words by Hannah Arendt, translated by @samantharhill.bsky.social and @genesegrill.bsky.social

“A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that terror is no longer used as a means to exterminate and frighten opponents, but as an instrument to rule masses of people who are perfectly obedient.” — Hannah Arendt