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What Makes a Soul Mate: Roxane Gay on Loving vs. Being in Love

What Makes a Soul Mate: Roxane Gay on Loving vs. B...

4 months ago 6

How the Bicycle Was Born: Mount Tambora, the Year Without a Summer, and the Stubborn Courage to Reimagine the Possible

How the Bicycle Was Born: Mount Tambora, the Year ...

4 months ago 7

An Irishwoman’s Fierce and Poetic Record of Traversing the World on a Bicycle in the Middle of the Cold War

An Irishwoman’s Fierce and Poetic Record of Traver...

4 months ago 7

Wander: Natascha McElhone Reads Hermann Hesse’s 100-Year-Old Love Letter to the Wisdom of Trees in a Cinematic Walk Through Kew Gardens

Wander: Natascha McElhone Reads Hermann Hesse’s 10...

4 months ago 6

Letting in the Golden Light: Oliver Sacks on How Love Changes What We See

Letting in the Golden Light: Oliver Sacks on How L...

4 months ago 16

Octavia Butler on Change and the Meaning of God

Octavia Butler on Change and the Meaning of God

4 months ago 7

But We Had Music

But We Had Music

4 months ago 7

How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go

How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letti...

4 months ago 6

Oliver Sacks on the Three Essential Elements of Creativity

Oliver Sacks on the Three Essential Elements of Cr...

4 months ago 7

Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to Save Our Sanity in Trying Times

Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to ...

4 months ago 6

What a Weasel Knows That We Forget: Annie Dillard on How to Live

What a Weasel Knows That We Forget: Annie Dillard ...

4 months ago 5

The Pain in You and the God in You: Carl Jung on the Relationship Between Psychological Suffering and Creativity

The Pain in You and the God in You: Carl Jung on t...

4 months ago 5

Pablo Neruda on How to Hold Time

Pablo Neruda on How to Hold Time

4 months ago 6

Escaping the Trap of Efficiency: The Counterintuitive Antidote to the Time-Anxiety That Haunts and Hampers Our Search for Meaning

Escaping the Trap of Efficiency: The Counterintuit...

4 months ago 6

Borges on How to Conquer Time

Borges on How to Conquer Time

4 months ago 7

An Love, Reason, and the Antidote to the Melancholy of the Chance Not Taken

An Love, Reason, and the Antidote to the Melanchol...

4 months ago 6

The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind

The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Myst...

4 months ago 7

Grace Paley on the Art of Growing Older

Grace Paley on the Art of Growing Older

4 months ago 7