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Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

5 months ago 17

J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”

J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psych...

5 months ago 22

How Nature Imagined the Figment of You

How Nature Imagined the Figment of You

5 months ago 20

A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music

A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Mus...

5 months ago 16

Very Necessary Qualifications of a Great Storyteller

Very Necessary Qualifications of a Great Storytell...

5 months ago 11

Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving Earth’s Rarest Raptor

Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving E...

5 months ago 19

Václav Havel, Writing from Prison, on How to Hold Your Failure

Václav Havel, Writing from Prison, on How to Hold ...

5 months ago 19

The Only Three Distinctions Between People

The Only Three Distinctions Between People

5 months ago 18

How Phrenology Queered Language: Walt Whitman and the Evolving Lexicon of Love

How Phrenology Queered Language: Walt Whitman and ...

5 months ago 20

Artist Louise Bourgeois on How Solitude Enriches Creative Work

Artist Louise Bourgeois on How Solitude Enriches C...

5 months ago 18

The Donkey and the Meaning of Eternity: Nobel-Winning Spanish Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Love Letter to Life

The Donkey and the Meaning of Eternity: Nobel-Winn...

5 months ago 24

Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau’s Touching Account of 24 Hours with a Tiny Owl

Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau’s Touc...

5 months ago 18

Hermann Hesse on How to Hear the Wisdom of the Inner Voice

Hermann Hesse on How to Hear the Wisdom of the Inn...

5 months ago 18

Existentialist Embroidery

Existentialist Embroidery

5 months ago 12

Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forgetting is Necessary for Creativity

Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forge...

5 months ago 21

Swimming and the Meaning of Life

Swimming and the Meaning of Life

5 months ago 14

The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular

The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s F...

5 months ago 18

How Not to Dwell on the Past

How Not to Dwell on the Past

5 months ago 19