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The Marginalianby Maria Popova1 Sept 2026
A Lei for Your Losses: Joan Didion on the Art of Letting Go By Maria Popova “We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss,” Judith Viorst wrote in her defense of life’s...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova31 Aug 2026
A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How a Forgotten Medieval Woman Gave Groups of Birds Their Strange Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith By Maria Popova Language...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova31 Aug 2026
The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity By Maria Popova “Give me solitude,” Whitman demanded in his ode to the eternal tension...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova31 Aug 2026
The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: Ceramics, Serpentine, and How to Get Over Heartbreak By Maria Popova One December afternoon, I arrived in Patagonia with a big blue...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova31 Aug 2026
How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love By Maria Popova Whatever fundamental reality might exist, we live out our lives in a subjective reality defined by what we agree to attend...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova30 Aug 2026
Matter, Memory, and the Paradox of Perception: Henri Bergson on How to See Reality By Maria Popova In 1896, decades before Santiago Ramón y Cajal pioneered neuroscience, more than a century before...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova30 Aug 2026
Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley on the Surest Remedy for a Sunken Spirit and What Makes Life Worth Living By Maria Popova Half a century before Walt Whitman considered what makes life worth living...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova29 Aug 2026
Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life By Maria Popova “Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both is altered,” the great...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova29 Aug 2026
Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers By Maria Popova “The past only comes back when the present runs so smoothly that it is like the sliding surface of a deep river,” Virginia Woolf wrote some...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova29 Aug 2026
A Life of One’s Own: A Brilliant Young Woman’s Forgotten Field Guide to the Art of Knowing What You Really Want By Maria Popova “One must know what one wants to be,” the eighteenth-century French...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova28 Aug 2026
The Tree and the River: A Wordless Love Letter to How Nature Always Wins By Maria Popova Nested between two giant cedars in the remote old-growth forest where I live much of the year are the rusted...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova28 Aug 2026
How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go By Maria Popova This essay and poem are part of the Universe in Verse book.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova28 Aug 2026
How to Be Reborn Each Day By Maria Popova In their strange cosmogony predating Copernicus by two millennia, the ancient Greek scientific sect of the Pythagoreans placed at the center of the...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova28 Aug 2026
The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech By Maria Popova Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872–February 2, 1970) endures as one of...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova27 Aug 2026
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness By Maria Popova It starts with a low hum that adheres itself to the underbelly of the...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova27 Aug 2026
Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming Yourself Across the Sweep of Life By Maria Popova The unfolding of life does more than fray our bodies with entropy — it softens our spirit, blunting the edge...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova26 Aug 2026
The Moving Letter James Baldwin Received from His Childhood Teacher at the Peak of His Fame and His Heartbreak By Maria Popova In early 1934, a twenty-four-year-old graduate student at Columbia...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova26 Aug 2026
Decoding the Mystery of Intuition: AI Prophet Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity By Maria Popova “The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova26 Aug 2026
Uncoding Creativity in the Age of AI: What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and What Makes Great Person By Maria Popova I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova25 Aug 2026
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance By Maria Popova One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger.
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