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12/21/2023
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Favorite Children's Books of 2023 — tender reckonings with friendship, fear, love, solitude, black holes, time, and the interconnectedness of life
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12/20/2023
1 : 14
Annual Special: Favorite Books of 2023
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12/17/2023
11 : 14
The paradox of transformative experiences, poetic ecology and the biology of wonder, the sky and the soul
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12/9/2023
22 : 4
The light between us, the whyless wonder of the birds-of-paradise, Henry Miller on friendship and the relationship between creativity and community
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12/2/2023
22 : 4
How to apologize, philosopher Martha Nussbaum on the litmus test for love, and an illustrated celebration of the art of shared solitude
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11/24/2023
22 : 4
The deeper meanings of friendship, love, and heartbreak, the majesty and mystery of night migration, necessary losses and the art of letting go
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11/18/2023
22 : 4
A tender illustrated celebration of the many languages of love, the first scientist's guide to truth, reflections on war
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11/11/2023
22 : 4
Blue is the color of desire, May Sarton on generosity, Philip Glass on art, science, and the mark of a visionary
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11/4/2023
22 : 4
From stardust to sapiens, bell hooks on love, a painted epic poem about the science of black holes and warped spacetime
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10/28/2023
22 : 4
Alain de Botton on the qualities of a healthy mind, Lucille Clifton on how to be a living poem, the magic and mystery of murmurations
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10/23/2023
9 : 34
17 life-learnings from 17 years of The Marginalian
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10/21/2023
22 : 4
To be a person; human nature and the nature of reality; a moving wordless story about war, hope, and keeping the light alive
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10/19/2023
4 : 54
Roxane Gay on love, Nick Cave on faith and the importance of trusting yourself, an illustrated love letter to deep time and Earth's memory
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10/7/2023
22 : 4
Ursula K. Le Guin on change, menopause as rebirth and the civilizational value of elders; Dostoyevsky in love; Maxine Kumin's superb poem "After Love"
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9/30/2023
22 : 4
Alan Watts on how to own your weakness, a tender illustrated meditation on how to find and bear your inner light, and a stunning poem
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9/23/2023
22 : 4
Mars and our search for meaning, Octavia Butler's advice on writing (which applies to all creative practice), an uncommon meditation on presence
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9/17/2023
12 : 14
Virginia Woolf on the courage to be yourself and how to hear your soul, Milan Kundera on the power of coincidences, the half-life of hope
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9/10/2023
10 : 14
Ernest Becker on the psychology of heroism, Emily Dickinson and the poetic science of Earth's most supernatural flower, a blind man on living in light
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9/3/2023
10 : 14
A Buddhist scientist on complexity and the murmuration of being; poems celebrating gardening; a neuroscience pioneer on the spirituality of nature
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8/27/2023
10 : 4
Spell against indifference, Bertrand Russell's salve for our helpless overwhelm, Camus on writing and the importance of stubbornness in creative work
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