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The Marginalianby Maria Popova25 Aug 2026
How to Delight in Your Days: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness By Maria Popova “The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova25 Aug 2026
What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life By Maria Popova “A person’s identity,” Amin Maalouf wrote as he contemplated what he so poetically called the genes of the...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova24 Aug 2026
The Vocabulary of Vulnerability: 10 Words from Around the World for Complex and Difficult Emotions By Maria Popova Language is the chalice we lift to our lips to taste our own experience — a vessel...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova24 Aug 2026
The Moomin Strategy for Living with Uncertainty By Maria Popova Tove Jansson (August 9, 1914–June 27, 2001) is among the most imaginative, important, and influential children’s book creators of all...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova24 Aug 2026
The Building Blocks of Personhood: Oliver Sacks on Neurocognitive Pillar of What Makes Us Who We Are By Maria Popova “A person’s identity,” Amin Maalouf wrote in his brilliant treatise on...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova23 Aug 2026
Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being By Maria Popova When the twenty-two-year-old Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932–February 11, 1963)...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova23 Aug 2026
The Black Robin and the Power of Tenacious Tenderness: How a Single Mother Brought an Entire Species Back from the Brink of Extinction By Maria Popova This essay is adapted from Traversal.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova22 Aug 2026
The More Loving One: The Science of Entropy and the Art of Alternative Endings By Maria Popova This essay and poem are now part of the Universe in Verse book.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova22 Aug 2026
The Loveliness of Letting Go: An Illustrated Ode to Life’s Lasts By Maria Popova The great cruelty of life, and also its great mercy, is that only hindsight ever knows each last — the last time...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova22 Aug 2026
How to Be Un-Dead: Notes on Waking Up from the Trance of Near-Living By Maria Popova “When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist,” Henry Miller wrote in his stunning letter to Anaïs Nin...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova21 Aug 2026
The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom By Maria Popova We move through the world largely unaware that our emotions...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova21 Aug 2026
How to Bear Your Desolations By Maria Popova The morning after a relationship of depth and significance long bending under the weight of its own complexity had finally broken with an exhausted...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova20 Aug 2026
The Resilience of Uncertainty: How to Hold the Universe in You By Maria Popova The great mercy of life is that we can change, we can reroute, we can surprise ourselves.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova20 Aug 2026
How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust By Maria Popova “The state of enchantment is one of...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova20 Aug 2026
Where Love Goes When It Goes By Maria Popova This is an excerpt from Traversal. Where does love go when it goes?
The Marginalianby Maria Popova20 Aug 2026
How to Bear Your Loneliness By Maria Popova “You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love,” the artist Louise Bourgeois wrote in her diary.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova19 Aug 2026
Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island By Maria Popova Not often — a...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova19 Aug 2026
How to Hold Death and Carry Life: A Zen Master Explains Existence to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind By Maria Popova If death is so enormous a mystery that we remain...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova19 Aug 2026
Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary By Maria Popova Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how improbably lucky we are, each of its...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova18 Aug 2026
How to Be a Sea: Albert Camus on Learning to Die and Learning to Live By Maria Popova The summer I turned sixteen, I took a bus across Bulgaria — I suppose you could call it running away, though my...
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