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The Marginalianby Maria Popova25d ago
On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil Gibran By Maria Popova In the final years of his long life, which encompassed world wars and assassinations and numerous terrors, the great...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova26d ago
J.R.R. Tolkien on How to Fall in Love with Life By Maria Popova In 1964, Pantheon Books invited J.R.R.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova27d ago
Thomas Bernhard on Walking, Thinking, and the Paradox of Self-Reflection By Maria Popova “I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova27d ago
The Peace of Wild Things: Wendell Berry’s Poetic Antidote to Despair, Animated By Maria Popova UPDATE 2022: For more soulful animated poems, see my collaboration with On Being on an animated season...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova28d ago
Seneca on True and False Friendship By Maria Popova “Friendship is unnecessary,” C.S. Lewis wrote, “like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… it has no survival value; rather it is one...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova28d ago
The Moving Story of the Dawn Redwood: How a Fossil Came Back to Life to Bring Humanity Together in the Middle of Our Deadliest War By Maria Popova Sixty million years ago, when tropical climes...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova28d ago
The Fascinating Science of How We Think Not with the Brain But with the World By Maria Popova “Our minds are all threaded together,” the young Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary at the dawn of the...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova29d ago
How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself By Maria Popova Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves, continually stymied by all we...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova12 Sept 2026
A Beginning, Not a Decline: Colette on the Splendor of Autumn and the Autumn of Life By Maria Popova The weather has seeded our earliest myths, inspired some of our greatest art, and even affects...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova11 Sept 2026
The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream By Maria Popova One November night in the 1870s, legendary Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821–February 9, 1881)...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova11 Sept 2026
Why Leaves Change Color and How We Become Who We Are: The Science of Chlorophyll and the Poetics of Personhood By Maria Popova Autumn is the season of ambivalence and reconciliation, soft-carpeted...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova11 Sept 2026
The Unspeakable World: Alan Watts on How to Touch the Pulse of Life By Maria Popova What makes life so disorienting is that its greatest revelations and greatest transformations are inarticulable.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova10 Sept 2026
Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to Save Our Sanity in Trying Times By Maria Popova In 1957, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) became the second youngest laureate of the...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova10 Sept 2026
The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind By Maria Popova “A leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars,” Walt Whitman wrote a decade before Darwin...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova9 Sept 2026
The Paradoxes and Possibilities of Transformation: Adam Phillips on Our Ambivalent Desire for Change By Maria Popova When answering the Orion questionnaire, a question stopped me up short by...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova8 Sept 2026
Kahlil Gibran on the Courage to Weather the Uncertainties of Love By Maria Popova “Love is the quality of attention we pay to things,” poet J.D.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova8 Sept 2026
How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Certainty: The Japanese Concept of “Ma” By Maria Popova “Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know,'” the Polish poet Wisława...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova7 Sept 2026
How Not to Waste Your Wildness By Maria Popova Once, while writing my first book, I lived on a lush volcanic island balding with so-called civilization, lawnmowers muffling its birdsong to turn its...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova7 Sept 2026
Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity By Maria Popova “A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity,” William James wrote in his...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova7 Sept 2026
I Long to Read More in the Book of You: Moomins Creator Tove Jansson’s Tender and Passionate Letters to the Love of Her Life By Maria Popova “All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly...
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