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Why Are We Not Better Than We Are: How Poetry Saves Lives

Why Are We Not Better Than We Are: How Poetry Save...

7 months ago 21

The Intelligence of Emotions: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How Storytelling Rewires Us and Why Befriending Our Neediness Is Essential for Happiness

The Intelligence of Emotions: Philosopher Martha N...

7 months ago 25

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Al...

7 months ago 22

How Flamingos Got Their Pink

How Flamingos Got Their Pink

7 months ago 19

Nick Cave on Creative Work as an Instrument of Self-Forgiveness and the Courage of Hope in Cynical Times

Nick Cave on Creative Work as an Instrument of Sel...

7 months ago 18

Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain

Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the ...

7 months ago 24

Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed

Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Gr...

7 months ago 20

Emerson on Talent vs. Character, Our Resistance to Change, and the Key to True Personal Growth

Emerson on Talent vs. Character, Our Resistance to...

7 months ago 25

Corrective for a Broken Heart

Corrective for a Broken Heart

7 months ago 24

The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty

The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on t...

7 months ago 16

Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise

Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradis...

7 months ago 21

How to Stop Doing and Start Living

How to Stop Doing and Start Living

7 months ago 20

Create Dangerously: Albert Camus on the Power of Art as Resistance and Creativity as an Instrument of Freedom

Create Dangerously: Albert Camus on the Power of A...

7 months ago 26

The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form

The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Cre...

7 months ago 26

Something Deeper Than Hope: Terry Tempest Williams on Our Stays Against Despair

Something Deeper Than Hope: Terry Tempest Williams...

7 months ago 27

Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers

Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers

7 months ago 22

The Music of Trees: Improvisation, Iteration, and the Science of Immortality

The Music of Trees: Improvisation, Iteration, and ...

7 months ago 22

Place, Personhood, and the Hippocampus: The Fascinating Science of Magnetism, Autonoeic Consciousness, and What Makes Us Who We Are

Place, Personhood, and the Hippocampus: The Fascin...

7 months ago 23