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Emerson on How to Touch the Universe

Emerson on How to Touch the Universe

9 months ago 25

How Not to Be a Victim of Time: Rebecca West on Music and Life

How Not to Be a Victim of Time: Rebecca West on Mu...

9 months ago 26

How to Be Immense: Trauma Therapist Frances Weller on the Relationship Between Uncertainty and Renewal

How to Be Immense: Trauma Therapist Frances Weller...

9 months ago 27

Strata: The Consolations and Invitations of Deep Time

Strata: The Consolations and Invitations of Deep T...

9 months ago 26

How to Hold on to the Light of the World

How to Hold on to the Light of the World

9 months ago 26

The Trouble with Romantic Love

The Trouble with Romantic Love

9 months ago 25

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

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

10 months ago 28

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

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

10 months ago 26

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...

10 months ago 25

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

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

10 months ago 29

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...

10 months ago 28

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

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

10 months ago 24

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

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

10 months ago 27

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 ...

10 months ago 26

If Birds Ran the World

If Birds Ran the World

10 months ago 22

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 ...

10 months ago 26

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...

10 months ago 24