Robert Zaretsky is a professor at the Honors College at the University of Houston. His most recent book is
A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning. He is currently teaching a course marking the centenary of World War I, and recently reviewed new books about the war for the
Los Angeles Review of Books.
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When I confide my anxiety that I have fewer than 10 students in one of the two classes I teach twice a week, Ryan shares his relief that he has fewer than 30 in one of the six classes he teaches every day. After I express my impatience with students who do not read deeply, Ryan tells me about students who cannot read at all. Full Story
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After the passage of a new anti-discrimination ordinance, Robert Zaretsky finds signs of anxiety and tolerance in Houston's freeway landscape. Full Story
