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- 05/19/2019 - Rebecca Solnit on love and living with purpose, Toni Morrison on writing and the transformative power of art, a lovely picture-book about the Moon
- 05/12/2019 - For anyone who has ever been ill, or will be ill, or has loved someone ill – which is pretty much all of us – Virginia Woolf on illness; and more.
- 05/05/2019 - Regina Spektor reads "Theories of Everything" by the Canadian astronomer, poet, and tragic genius Rebecca Elson, Oliver Sacks on libraries, and more
- 04/28/2019 - How freedom strengthens togetherness in long-term relationships, Amanda Palmer reads Adrienne Rich's tribute to the Hubble Space Telescope, and more
- 04/22/2019 - Earth Day special: Beautiful wisdom on our shared ecological responsibility from the woman whose courage inspired the creation of Earth Day
- 04/21/2019 - Seneca on how to live with presence and balance the existential calculus of time; Emily Dickinson on spring; physicist Freeman Dyson on creativity
- 04/20/2019 - The Universe in Verse livestream
- 04/14/2019 - Nobel-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli on science, spirituality, and our search for meaning, how Eleanor Roosevelt revolutionized politics, and more
- 04/12/2019 - Please confirm your Brain Pickings newsletter subscription
- 04/07/2019 - Timeless advice on love from a forgotten 19th-century genius, Virginia Woolf and the fate of all technology, a poetic celebration of science
- 04/02/2019 - Annual special: Announcing "The Universe in Verse" 2019 (April 23, NYC)
- 03/31/2019 - Alain de Botton's lovely letter to children about why we read, Lincoln's approach to criticism, decoding the song of the universe, and more
- 03/24/2019 - Remembering W.S. Merwin with the greatest advice on creative work ever committed to words, a Nobel-winning physicist on science and spirituality &more
- 03/17/2019 - Patti Smith on creativity and William Blake, the stunning natural history illustrations of 18th-century artist Sarah Stone, Jill Lepore on history
- 03/10/2019 - Toni Morrison on wisdom in the age of information, a lyrical illustrated meditation on loneliness, Anne Gilchrist's stunning love letters to Whitman
- 03/03/2019 - Hannah Arendt on love and how to live with the fundamental fear of loss, Hermann Hesse on solitude, courage, and how to find your destiny, and more
- 02/24/2019 - Thoreau on change, Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran on the courage to disillusion yourself, and more
- 02/17/2019 - Neil Gaiman's stunning ode to the courage of speaking truth to power, Iris Murdoch on art as resistance, Melville's electric love letters to Hawthorne
- 02/10/2019 - Remembering a dear friend, the story behind one of the loveliest, profoundest poems ever written, what a mountain teaches about time and transcendence
- 02/10/2019 - "If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me."
