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The Marginalianby Maria Popova29 Aug 2026
Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers By Maria Popova “The past only comes back when the present runs so smoothly that it is like the sliding surface of a deep river,” Virginia Woolf wrote some...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova29 Aug 2026
A Life of One’s Own: A Brilliant Young Woman’s Forgotten Field Guide to the Art of Knowing What You Really Want By Maria Popova “One must know what one wants to be,” the eighteenth-century French...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova28 Aug 2026
The Tree and the River: A Wordless Love Letter to How Nature Always Wins By Maria Popova Nested between two giant cedars in the remote old-growth forest where I live much of the year are the rusted...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova28 Aug 2026
How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go By Maria Popova This essay and poem are part of the Universe in Verse book.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova28 Aug 2026
How to Be Reborn Each Day By Maria Popova In their strange cosmogony predating Copernicus by two millennia, the ancient Greek scientific sect of the Pythagoreans placed at the center of the...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova28 Aug 2026
The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech By Maria Popova Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872–February 2, 1970) endures as one of...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova27 Aug 2026
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness By Maria Popova It starts with a low hum that adheres itself to the underbelly of the...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova27 Aug 2026
Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming Yourself Across the Sweep of Life By Maria Popova The unfolding of life does more than fray our bodies with entropy — it softens our spirit, blunting the edge...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova26 Aug 2026
The Moving Letter James Baldwin Received from His Childhood Teacher at the Peak of His Fame and His Heartbreak By Maria Popova In early 1934, a twenty-four-year-old graduate student at Columbia...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova26 Aug 2026
Decoding the Mystery of Intuition: AI Prophet Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity By Maria Popova “The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova26 Aug 2026
Uncoding Creativity in the Age of AI: What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and What Makes Great Person By Maria Popova I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova25 Aug 2026
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance By Maria Popova One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova25 Aug 2026
How to Delight in Your Days: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness By Maria Popova “The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova25 Aug 2026
What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life By Maria Popova “A person’s identity,” Amin Maalouf wrote as he contemplated what he so poetically called the genes of the...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova24 Aug 2026
The Vocabulary of Vulnerability: 10 Words from Around the World for Complex and Difficult Emotions By Maria Popova Language is the chalice we lift to our lips to taste our own experience — a vessel...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova24 Aug 2026
The Moomin Strategy for Living with Uncertainty By Maria Popova Tove Jansson (August 9, 1914–June 27, 2001) is among the most imaginative, important, and influential children’s book creators of all...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova24 Aug 2026
The Building Blocks of Personhood: Oliver Sacks on Neurocognitive Pillar of What Makes Us Who We Are By Maria Popova “A person’s identity,” Amin Maalouf wrote in his brilliant treatise on...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova23 Aug 2026
Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being By Maria Popova When the twenty-two-year-old Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932–February 11, 1963)...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova23 Aug 2026
The Black Robin and the Power of Tenacious Tenderness: How a Single Mother Brought an Entire Species Back from the Brink of Extinction By Maria Popova This essay is adapted from Traversal.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova22 Aug 2026
The More Loving One: The Science of Entropy and the Art of Alternative Endings By Maria Popova This essay and poem are now part of the Universe in Verse book.
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