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Traversal: New Year, New Book (Seven Years in the Making)

Traversal: New Year, New Book (Seven Years in the ...

5 months ago 11

The Body as Revolution: Che Guevara on Social Medicine and Personal Health as a Political Act

The Body as Revolution: Che Guevara on Social Medi...

5 months ago 9

Love, Lichen, and the Art of Trusting Time: The Best of The Marginalian 2025

Love, Lichen, and the Art of Trusting Time: The Be...

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The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on While Letting Go: 10 Cultural Icons on the Art of Growing Older

The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on While Le...

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How to Bioluminesce: Artist Ash Eliza Williams’s Reveries of Wonder

How to Bioluminesce: Artist Ash Eliza Williams’s R...

5 months ago 8

When Friends Become Lovers: H.G. Wells on Navigating Blurring Boundaries

When Friends Become Lovers: H.G. Wells on Navigati...

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How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change

How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for ...

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If Birds Ran the World

If Birds Ran the World

6 months ago 8

The Leaf that Wouldn’t Fall: A Tender Illustrated Parable about the Measure and Meaning of Love

The Leaf that Wouldn’t Fall: A Tender Illustrated ...

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The Woman Who Mapped Labrador and Revolutionized the Literature of Exploration

The Woman Who Mapped Labrador and Revolutionized t...

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A Decalogue for the Dignity of Growing Old: Eva Perón’s Revolutionary Rights of the Elderly

A Decalogue for the Dignity of Growing Old: Eva Pe...

6 months ago 6

Favorite Books of 2025

Favorite Books of 2025

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Beatitude: Poet John Keene’s Spell Against Despair

Beatitude: Poet John Keene’s Spell Against Despair...

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The Lighthouse Keeper: A Tender Illustrated Meditation on What Saves Us

The Lighthouse Keeper: A Tender Illustrated Medita...

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Little Free Library Divinations: Searching for the Meaning of Life in Discarded Books and Found Objects

Little Free Library Divinations: Searching for the...

6 months ago 8

The Indissoluble Filament Connecting Us All: Patti Smith on What It Means to Be an Artist

The Indissoluble Filament Connecting Us All: Patti...

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Aldo Leopold on How to Hear the Song of Life

Aldo Leopold on How to Hear the Song of Life

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Alphabet in Motion: Artist Kelli Anderson’s Wondrous Pop-up Biography of the Letters

Alphabet in Motion: Artist Kelli Anderson’s Wondro...

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