Robert Zaretsky is a professor in the Honors College at the University of Houston. He is the author of several books, most recently Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague (University of Chicago Press, 2022).
Robert Zaretsky
Articles
Achtung Maybe: Reverence in the Age of Trump
Robert Zaretsky ponders reverence in the Age of Trump.
Reading “The Stranger” in Tehran: An Interview with Mohammad Hekmat
Robert Zaretsky interviews Mohammad Hekmat, an English-to-Farsi translator, about Camus, cultural differences, and censorship.
The Plague Within Us: Shlomo Sand on France and its Intellectuals
As Shlomo Sand suggests in his new book, the French intellectual was never what he was cracked up to be.
Trump Revisits Vichy's Rafles
Trump Revisits Vichy's Rafles - BLARB
Lost in Trumpslation: An Interview with Bérengère Viennot
Robert Zaretsky interviews Bérengère Viennot, who is tasked with translating Donald Trump’s speeches into French, broken syntax and all.
Finding Humility in Camus’ The Plague
Robert Zaretsky for BLARB: Finding Humility in Camus’ The Plague
Against Forgetting: Resistance Past and Present
Robert Zaretsky implores you to remember.
No Easy Answers: Susan Rubin Suleiman on “The Némirovsky Question”
Robert Zaretsky explains that there are no easy answers in “The Némirovsky Question” by Susan Rubin Suleiman.
So Long, Marianne: From the Bare Breast to the Burkini
Robert Zaretsky examines Marianne, the symbol of French Republic, and the debate over the burkini.
Teaching in a Time of Trump
Robert Zaretsky on teaching history in the Trump era.
Biography of a Book: Zaretsky on Kaplan on Camus
Robert Zaretsky on Alice Kaplan's "Looking For 'The Stranger'."
This Is Not A Conversation: Robert Cremins and Rob Zaretsky on Denis Diderot, Malcolm Bradbury, and Why We Write
What would Denis Diderot think of a campus protest?
'A Man and a Woman' Taught Me How We Fall in Love with France
The Hands of a Leader: Donald Trump and Niccolò Machiavelli
What Machiavelli can tell us about Trump.
The Limits of Absurdity
Albert Camus's confusion over Americans has become our confusion, while his observations cut as deeply today as they did 70 years ago.
Paris: A Tale of Two Cities
"What strikes us today as terrifyingly new would in 1914 strike many Parisians, mutatis mutandis, as little more than déjà vu."
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