Doublethink / Doubletalk

"Each aphorism is a tiny well-framed picture which at once observes and questions the world's workings with its accumulated intellectual pleasures, beauties, and quirks."--Washington Independent Review of Books

"At times, aphorisms are merely witty, but they can convey and evoke sustained reflection and thought, as those of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, or Nicolás Gómez Dávila. To that list we can add Eva Brann...In the few hours spent with her, one finds a wise, slightly acerbic, good-humored te...