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Saved by Wonder: The Ziegler Polar Expedition and the Aurora Borealis

Saved by Wonder: The Ziegler Polar Expedition and ...

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Traversal: New Year, New Book (Seven Years in the Making)

Traversal: New Year, New Book (Seven Years in the ...

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The Body as Revolution: Che Guevara on Social Medicine and Personal Health as a Political Act

The Body as Revolution: Che Guevara on Social Medi...

8 months ago 19

Love, Lichen, and the Art of Trusting Time: The Best of The Marginalian 2025

Love, Lichen, and the Art of Trusting Time: The Be...

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The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on While Letting Go: 10 Cultural Icons on the Art of Growing Older

The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on While Le...

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How to Bioluminesce: Artist Ash Eliza Williams’s Reveries of Wonder

How to Bioluminesce: Artist Ash Eliza Williams’s R...

8 months ago 18

When Friends Become Lovers: H.G. Wells on Navigating Blurring Boundaries

When Friends Become Lovers: H.G. Wells on Navigati...

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How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change

How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for ...

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If Birds Ran the World

If Birds Ran the World

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The Leaf that Wouldn’t Fall: A Tender Illustrated Parable about the Measure and Meaning of Love

The Leaf that Wouldn’t Fall: A Tender Illustrated ...

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The Woman Who Mapped Labrador and Revolutionized the Literature of Exploration

The Woman Who Mapped Labrador and Revolutionized t...

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A Decalogue for the Dignity of Growing Old: Eva Perón’s Revolutionary Rights of the Elderly

A Decalogue for the Dignity of Growing Old: Eva Pe...

8 months ago 19

Favorite Books of 2025

Favorite Books of 2025

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Beatitude: Poet John Keene’s Spell Against Despair

Beatitude: Poet John Keene’s Spell Against Despair...

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The Lighthouse Keeper: A Tender Illustrated Meditation on What Saves Us

The Lighthouse Keeper: A Tender Illustrated Medita...

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Little Free Library Divinations: Searching for the Meaning of Life in Discarded Books and Found Objects

Little Free Library Divinations: Searching for the...

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The Indissoluble Filament Connecting Us All: Patti Smith on What It Means to Be an Artist

The Indissoluble Filament Connecting Us All: Patti...

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Aldo Leopold on How to Hear the Song of Life

Aldo Leopold on How to Hear the Song of Life

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