Ruth Padel Books
Beethoven Variations
By Ruth Padel
“Padel’s imagery and imagination took me deeper into Beethoven than many biographies I’ve read.” —Anthony Tommasini, The New York TimesA fascinating poetic journe...
Read MoreWhom gods destroy
By Ruth Padel
Madness is central to Western tragedy in all epochs, but we find the origins of this centrality in early Greece: in Homeric insight into the "damage a damaged mind can do." Greece, and especially t...
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