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Books by Helena de Bres
Helena de Bres is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College, where she researches and teaches ethics, philosophy of literature and political theory. She is the author of Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir (2021) and How to be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins (2024). Helena has published essays in The New York Times, The Point, Aeon, Psyche, Brevity, The Los Angeles Review and Another Chicago Magazine. She is on the editorial board of The Raven, a new magazine of philosophical essays.
How to be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins
by Helena de Bres & Julia de Bres (illustrator)
In How to Be Multiple, philosopher Helena de Bres combines her philosophical training with her own experience of twinhood to explore what it means to be a person and how we relate to other people. The book is illustrated by her twin, Julia de Bres.
Interviews with Helena de Bres
The best books on Twins, recommended by Helena de Bres
Twins are literary gold, but they also open the door to a host of fundamental questions about identity, freedom and even love, says Helena de Bres, a philosopher at Wellesley College and herself an identical twin. She recommends five philosophically evocative books involving twins, from YA romance to John Steinbeck, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature.
