Avram Alpert

Avram Alpert is an academic and writer who teaches writing and comparative literature at Princeton University and co-directs the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program with Meleko Mokgosi and Anthea Behm. He has written three books: Global Origins of the Modern Self, from Montaigne to Suzuki, A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well without Perfection, and The Good-Enough Life. He also writes for newspapers including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian, and journals such as Aeon and Dissent.