Despite having died at the young age of 34, Simone Weil (1909–43)—philosopher, unionist, mystic—remains one of the most intriguing female thinkers of the early 20th century; the ‘only great spirit of our time’ according to Albert Camus. This recent volume, edited and introduced by the well-known Weil-scholar Eric O. Springsted, contains a collection of Weil’s late philosophical writings. As outlined in the introduction by Springsted, ‘(w)ith the exception of ‘What Is Sacred in Every Human Being’ [written in London 1943, the year of her death] all texts date from her time in Marseilles—September 1940 to May 1942’ (p. vii). A number of the essays presented here are published in English for the first time.