MixedLos Angeles Review of BooksI didn’t find that Life is Hard helped quite as much as I’d hoped, though, with my own existential angst ... Setiya is such a brilliant philosopher, skillful writer, and sensitive person that in several places I feel he is holding back his full self, in service to what he imagines a popular audience wants ... The parts of the book I found most moving and memorable were those where Setiya risks some extended personal vulnerability,
