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How Evolution Invented Faith: The Patience of the Penguin and the Art of Withstanding Abandonment

How Evolution Invented Faith: The Patience of the ...

5 months ago 17

Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World

Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virgin...

5 months ago 22

bell hooks on the Power of Being in the Margins

bell hooks on the Power of Being in the Margins

5 months ago 20

“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Friendship

“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on...

5 months ago 20

Chance, Choice, and the Avocado: The Strange Evolutionary and Creative History of Earth’s Most Nutritious Fruit

Chance, Choice, and the Avocado: The Strange Evolu...

5 months ago 23

Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life

Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life

5 months ago 18

What It’s Like to Be a Panda

What It’s Like to Be a Panda

5 months ago 18

Middle Age and the Art of Self-Renewal: An Extraordinary Letter from Pioneering Education Reformer Elizabeth Peabody

Middle Age and the Art of Self-Renewal: An Extraor...

5 months ago 20

The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland

The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Mul...

5 months ago 22

In Praise of the Useless: Bertrand Russell’s Salve for Hard Times

In Praise of the Useless: Bertrand Russell’s Salve...

5 months ago 17

How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence

How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt...

5 months ago 20

How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Living Fully

How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on ...

5 months ago 22

The Enemy Outside and the Enemy Within: Audre Lorde’s Antidote to Despair

The Enemy Outside and the Enemy Within: Audre Lord...

5 months ago 21

Let Your Heart Be Broken

Let Your Heart Be Broken

5 months ago 21

Zadie Smith on the Courage to Be More Than Yourself

Zadie Smith on the Courage to Be More Than Yoursel...

5 months ago 19

How to Live a Miraculous Life

How to Live a Miraculous Life

5 months ago 17

Martian Gargoyles and Lunar Fish: Chilean Artist Alejandra Acosta’s Wondrous Embroidered Illustrations for This World’s First Book Theorizing Life on Other Worlds

Martian Gargoyles and Lunar Fish: Chilean Artist A...

5 months ago 18

Poetry: I Too, Dislike It

Poetry: I Too, Dislike It

6 months ago 20