Avram Alpert

About Avram Alpert

Avram Alpert teaches writing at Princeton University. He is the author of Global Origins of the Modern Self, from Montaigne to Suzuki (2019), A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection (2021), and The Good-Enough Life (2022). He has also written for outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Aeon, the Brooklyn Rail, and Truthout.