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Between the User and the Used: Zadie Smith on Instrumentalism

Between the User and the Used: Zadie Smith on Inst...

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Sentinels of the Soul: Kahlil Gibran’s Moving Letter to a Soldier in a Senseless War

Sentinels of the Soul: Kahlil Gibran’s Moving Lett...

2 months ago 3

The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us About the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All Scales

The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us About the...

2 months ago 3

The Pattern Inside the Pattern: Fractals, the Hidden Order Beneath Chaos, and the Story of the Refugee Who Revolutionized the Mathematics of Reality

The Pattern Inside the Pattern: Fractals, the Hidd...

2 months ago 3

Wherever You Think There Is Nothing

Wherever You Think There Is Nothing

2 months ago 3

Hemingway’s Advice on Writing, Ambition, and His Reading List of Essential Books for Aspiring Writers

Hemingway’s Advice on Writing, Ambition, and His R...

2 months ago 3

The Measure of a Rich Life: Wendell Berry on Delight as a Force of Resistance and the Key to Felicitous Sanity During Hardship

The Measure of a Rich Life: Wendell Berry on Delig...

2 months ago 3

Michael Rosen’s Sad Book: A Beautiful Anatomy of Loss, Illustrated by Quentin Blake

Michael Rosen’s Sad Book: A Beautiful Anatomy of L...

2 months ago 3

The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the ...

2 months ago 3

Do Not Spare Yourself

Do Not Spare Yourself

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The Courage of Vulnerability: Teenage Frida Kahlo’s Moving Letters to Her First Love

The Courage of Vulnerability: Teenage Frida Kahlo’...

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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...

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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...

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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

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

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How Flamingos Got Their Pink

How Flamingos Got Their Pink

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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...

2 months ago 3

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

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

2 months ago 3

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...

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