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Divinations of the First Light: A Cosmic Poem for the Vera Rubin Observatory
1 day ago
At the end of her trailblazing life, having swung open the gate...
How to Be a Stone: Three Poems for Trusting Time
4 days ago
If you want to befriend time — which is how you come...
Against Death: Nobel Laureate Elias Canetti on Grieving a Parent, Grieving the World, and What Makes Life Worth Living
7 days ago
The year is 1937. Elias Canetti (July 25, 1905–August 14, 1994) —...
Silence, Solitude, and the Art of Surrender: Pico Iyer on Finding the World in a Benedictine Monastery
13 days ago
“Such a simple revolution: Yesterday I thought myself at the center of...
The Arguers: A Charming Illustrated Parable about the Absurdity of Self-righteousness
15 days ago
Perhaps the most perilous consequence of uncertain times, times that hurl us...
The Grammar of Fantasy and the Fantastic Binomial: Beloved Italian Children’s Book Author Gianny Rodari on Creativity and the Key to Great Storytelling
18 days ago
I was eight when I first grasped the power of storytelling. One...
Against the Pleasurable Luxury of Despair and the Aridity of Self-pity: Doris Lessing on the Artist’s Task in Trying Times
19 days ago
Born in present-day Iran (then Persia) months after the end of the...
The Majesty of Mountains and the Mountains of the Mind
22 days ago
Mountains are some of our best metaphors for the mind and for...
Mushrooms and Our Search for Meaning
23 days ago
This essay was originally published as the cover story in the Summer...
The One Hundred Milliseconds Between the World and You: Oliver Sacks on Perception
24 days ago
“If the doors of perception were cleansed,” William Blake wrote, “everything would...
Imagine Water Otherwise: Robert Macfarlane on the Personhood of Rivers and the Meaning of Aliveness
26 days ago
“Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the...