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Undoing as Remaking: How Abraham Lincoln Drew Poetry and Power from His Suicidal Depression

Undoing as Remaking: How Abraham Lincoln Drew Poet...

8 months ago 24

Albert Camus on the Will to Live and the Most Important Question of Existence

Albert Camus on the Will to Live and the Most Impo...

8 months ago 23

The Monarchs, Music, and the Meaning of Life: The Most Touching Deathbed Love Letter Ever Written

The Monarchs, Music, and the Meaning of Life: The ...

8 months ago 25

How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older

How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself:...

8 months ago 26

How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old

How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Ye...

8 months ago 26

The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy

The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Ant...

8 months ago 23

Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness

Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His ...

8 months ago 26

Why You

Why You

8 months ago 26

Darwin’s Greatest Regret and His Deathbed Reflection on What Makes Life Worth Living

Darwin’s Greatest Regret and His Deathbed Reflecti...

8 months ago 27

The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity

The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher ...

8 months ago 28

Edward Abbey on How to Live and How to Die

Edward Abbey on How to Live and How to Die

8 months ago 23

Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Rep...

8 months ago 24

Blaise Pascal on the Intuitive vs. the Logical Mind and How We Come to Know Truth

Blaise Pascal on the Intuitive vs. the Logical Min...

8 months ago 21

Virginia Woolf on Self-Knowledge and the Limits of Empathy

Virginia Woolf on Self-Knowledge and the Limits of...

8 months ago 25

The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Search for Meaning

The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Sea...

8 months ago 24

How We Grieve: Meghan O’Rourke on the Messiness of Mourning and Learning to Live with Loss

How We Grieve: Meghan O’Rourke on the Messiness of...

8 months ago 24

Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdi...

8 months ago 22

The Blessing of Burnout: Samin Nosrat on the Faustian Bargain of Achievement and the Simple Substance of the Good Life

The Blessing of Burnout: Samin Nosrat on the Faust...

8 months ago 20