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Favorite Books of 2025

Favorite Books of 2025

10 months ago 25

Beatitude: Poet John Keene’s Spell Against Despair

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

10 months ago 28

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

The Lighthouse Keeper: A Tender Illustrated Medita...

10 months ago 26

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

Little Free Library Divinations: Searching for the...

10 months ago 26

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

The Indissoluble Filament Connecting Us All: Patti...

11 months ago 26

Aldo Leopold on How to Hear the Song of Life

Aldo Leopold on How to Hear the Song of Life

11 months ago 24

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

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

11 months ago 25

How to Be Human: Kahlil Gibran’s Recipe for Our Spiritual Perfection as a Species

How to Be Human: Kahlil Gibran’s Recipe for Our Sp...

11 months ago 23

Thanks: W.S. Merwin’s Ode to the Defiant Courage of Gratitude in a Broken World

Thanks: W.S. Merwin’s Ode to the Defiant Courage o...

11 months ago 24

Love Against Probability

Love Against Probability

11 months ago 23

A Lamentation for Linnaeus: In Praise of Confusion and Rewilding Wonder

A Lamentation for Linnaeus: In Praise of Confusion...

11 months ago 22

If You Forget Me: Pablo Neruda’s Staggering (Un)breakup Poem

If You Forget Me: Pablo Neruda’s Staggering (Un)br...

11 months ago 22

Chasing Fog: The Science and Spirituality of Nature’s Grounded Cloud

Chasing Fog: The Science and Spirituality of Natur...

11 months ago 23

How to Love the World More: Artist and Poet Rachel Hébert’s Breathtaking Catalogue of Gratitudes

How to Love the World More: Artist and Poet Rachel...

11 months ago 21

Midnight Motorbike: A Lullaby of Wonder for the Sleepless, Inspired by the Whimsy of South India

Midnight Motorbike: A Lullaby of Wonder for the Sl...

11 months ago 21

How to Fix Breakdowns in Communication

How to Fix Breakdowns in Communication

11 months ago 21

Against the Cartesian Myth of Work/Life Balance: André Gregory’s Extraordinary Letter to Richard Avedon about the Nature of Creativity

Against the Cartesian Myth of Work/Life Balance: A...

11 months ago 23

Words: Pablo Neruda’s Love Letter to Language

Words: Pablo Neruda’s Love Letter to Language

1 year ago 20