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- 01/19/2020 - What to do when the world gets you down; Mary Shelley's father on parenting and how an early love of reading paves the path to happiness; and more
- 01/12/2020 - Gorgeous illustrations from the world's first encyclopedia of trees, Kahlil Gibran on time, Neil Gaiman reads his humanistic poem for refugees
- 01/05/2020 - The art of centering; Krista Tippett reads a mathematical-existential poem about the interconnectedness of the cosmos; a Solar System quilt from 1876
- 12/30/2019 - The best of Brain Pickings 2019
- 12/29/2019 - How Kepler invented science fiction and defended his mother in a witchcraft trial while revolutionizing our understanding of the universe
- 12/22/2019 - Dostoyevsky, just after his death sentence was repealed, on the meaning of life; Sarah Kay reads Walt Whitman; David Abram on the language of nature
- 12/20/2019 - Annual Special: Favorite Books of 2019
- 12/16/2019 - Annual special: Favorite children's books of 2019
- 12/15/2019 - Margaret Atwood on marriage, Shelley on animal rights, an illustrated invitation to presence with the passage of time on the shortest day of the year
- 12/08/2019 - Neil Gaiman's feminist poem about science, animated;Oliver Jeffers's lovely illustrated fable about enoughness; poet Ross Gay on delight as resistance
- 12/01/2019 - Alain de Botton on existential maturity and what emotional intelligence really means; Debbie Millman's lovely letter to kids about how books solace us
- 11/24/2019 - Kahlil Gibran on silence, solitude, and the courage to know yourself; Wendell Berry on delight as a force of resistance to consumerism and hardship
- 11/17/2019 - What trees can teach us about love and the secret to healthy relationships; the Russell-Einstein manifesto for healing an ailing and divided world
- 11/10/2019 - Patti Smith's remedy for insomnia, Neil Gaiman's poetic ode to the queer Quaker astronomer who confirmed relativity and catapulted Einstein into fame
- 11/03/2019 - Eve Ensler's extraordinary letter to Mother Earth, an illustrated alphabet of joy, and a love letter to walking
- 10/27/2019 - Iris Murdoch on how nature and art allow us to "unself," Ursula K. Le Guin's playful and poignant letter-poem about why we read, and a life-straw
- 10/23/2019 - 13 life-learnings from 13 years of Brain Pickings
- 10/20/2019 - Pico Iyer on finding beauty in impermanence and luminosity in loss, sound ecologist Gordon Hempton on the art of listening to silence in a noisy world
- 10/19/2019 - "Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." (SPECIAL IRREGULAR MAILING)
- 10/13/2019 - Lorraine Hansberry on depression and its mightiest antidote, the stunning celestial beadwork of a Native artist inspired by the Hubble Space Telescope
