Joan Grant

As the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, Martha Nussbaum’s confident intensity is underpinned by a dazzling range of scholarship – politics history, psychoanalysis, economics, development studies, constitutional law, archaeology, comparative religion, comparative ethnology, pedagogy, gender studies, ethics – all focused in this book ... (read more)

It’s not cynical to be wary Of what comes next. It’s life’s lesson Engorged by the media That small treasures – a leaf, a love – Are flamed by match or missile, Destined to be memories. What’s age if not the smash and patter Of things falling in the head? ... (read more)