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How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love

How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the ...

5 months ago 18

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life...

5 months ago 16

How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty

How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the...

5 months ago 16

The Eternal Return: Nietzsche’s Brilliant Thought Experiment Illustrating the Key to Existential Contentment

The Eternal Return: Nietzsche’s Brilliant Thought ...

6 months ago 17

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

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

6 months ago 16

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 ...

6 months ago 20

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...

6 months ago 20

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...

6 months ago 17

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

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

6 months ago 29

Octavia Butler on Change and the Meaning of God

Octavia Butler on Change and the Meaning of God

6 months ago 17

But We Had Music

But We Had Music

6 months ago 18

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

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

6 months ago 15

Oliver Sacks on the Three Essential Elements of Creativity

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

6 months ago 19

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 ...

6 months ago 16

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

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

6 months ago 15

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...

6 months ago 15

Pablo Neruda on How to Hold Time

Pablo Neruda on How to Hold Time

6 months ago 16

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...

6 months ago 19