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- 09/25/2022 - Emerson on how to trust yourself and what solitude really means, Henry Miller on the secret to growth in art and in life, a Victorian prophecy of AI
- 09/18/2022 - Color and consciousness; superb advice on growing old, growing young, and becoming your fullest self; an invitation to unselfing
- 09/11/2022 - C.S. Lewis on longing; relationship rupture, the limbic system, what happens in your body when you experience abandonment, and what to do about it
- 09/04/2022 - "Goodnight Moon" author Margaret Wise Brown's little-known poems for the tragic love of her life, and their little-known love-story
- 08/28/2022 - 3 things to learn from a child and 7 from a thief: Bob Dylan's favorite rabbi teaching; Neruda's "Book of Questions" illustrated; and more
- 08/21/2022 - Why are we not better than we are; Alan Lightman on music and the universe; Eric Berne on the true meaning of intimacy (and how to attain it)
- 08/14/2022 - How to bear your suffering: a young poet's stunning letter to Emily Dickinson; Tolstoy on science, spirituality, and our search for meaning; music!
- 08/07/2022 - Nick Cave on songwriting and the mystery of the unconscious, Simone de Beauvoir on the art of growing older, Roxane Gay reads a lifeline of a poem
- 07/31/2022 - Iris Murdoch on the myth of closure, Keith Haring on change and creativity, Emily Dickinson on why we read
- 07/24/2022 - Poet Donald Hall on the secret to lasting love, Bruce Springsteen's strategy for living through depression, and the strange story of the avocado
- 07/17/2022 - Games People Play: the revolutionary 1964 model of human relationships that changed how we (mis)understand ourselves and each other, and more
- 07/10/2022 - William Blake and the stubborn courage of the unexampled, Radiolab creator Jad Abumrad's stunning commencement address about the meaning of life
- 07/03/2022 - Octavia Butler on the meaning of "God," Richard Powers on how to live up to our human potential amid the otherworldly wonder of this world
- 06/26/2022 - Mary Shelley on reproductive rights, Rebecca Solnit on writing and gardening, humanity's first cosmic gallery of children's art about life on Earth
- 06/24/2022 - Some algorithm needs you to "reconfirm" your subscription to The Marginalian
- 06/19/2022 - The dandelion and the meaning of life, 20 reasons for being, poet Elizabeth Alexander on how literature widens the portal of the possible
- 06/12/2022 - Consciousness and the constellations, the creative power of longing and the bittersweet,the day Hermann Hesse discovered the meaning of life in a tree
- 06/05/2022 - Special edition: The 3 things that make it worth living—nature, human nature, and their intersection in music—in a single century-deep story
- 06/05/2022 - The Stoic key to kindness + the octopus and the blue blind spots of our consciousness + stunning cyanotype portraits of flowers
- 05/29/2022 - Your brain on grief (and your heart on healing) + an illustrated meditation on how to live with fear and what it means to love + the joy of dance
