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The Marginalianby Maria Popova4 Sept 2026
The Power of Being a Threshold Person: Liminality, Communitas, and the Anti-structures of Possibility By Maria Popova “All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova4 Sept 2026
Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions By Maria Popova It starts with a tremble in the stomach, a palpitation in the chest.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova3 Sept 2026
Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work By Maria Popova “One can’t write directly about the soul,” Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova3 Sept 2026
The Creative Power of Uncertainty: Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech By Maria Popova “Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova3 Sept 2026
Italo Calvino on Reading and Sex By Maria Popova “I function only by falling in love: with French and France; with the 15th Century; with microbiology, cosmology, sleep research,” Ursula K.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova2 Sept 2026
The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity By Maria Popova “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova2 Sept 2026
Wendell Berry on Hope, Despair, and the Measure of Effective Protest By Maria Popova The current of life is charged by the poles of hope and despair.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova2 Sept 2026
How to Have Enough: Wendell Berry on Creativity and Love By Maria Popova “Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits,” Emily Dickinson sighed in one of her...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova2 Sept 2026
The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form By Maria Popova If the ancient Arab world had closed its gates to...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova2 Sept 2026
The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing By Maria Popova Nothing kidnaps our capacity for presence more cruelly than longing.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova1 Sept 2026
The 3 Buddhist Steps to Repairing a Relationship By Maria Popova One fact that never fails to astound me: Despite the immense cultural changes and leaps in knowledge over the epochs, the human...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova1 Sept 2026
How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love By Maria Popova “Live as if you were living already for the second time,” Viktor Frankl wrote in his 1946...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova1 Sept 2026
A Lei for Your Losses: Joan Didion on the Art of Letting Go By Maria Popova “We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss,” Judith Viorst wrote in her defense of life’s...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova31 Aug 2026
A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How a Forgotten Medieval Woman Gave Groups of Birds Their Strange Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith By Maria Popova Language...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova31 Aug 2026
The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity By Maria Popova “Give me solitude,” Whitman demanded in his ode to the eternal tension...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova31 Aug 2026
The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: Ceramics, Serpentine, and How to Get Over Heartbreak By Maria Popova One December afternoon, I arrived in Patagonia with a big blue...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova31 Aug 2026
How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love By Maria Popova Whatever fundamental reality might exist, we live out our lives in a subjective reality defined by what we agree to attend...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova30 Aug 2026
Matter, Memory, and the Paradox of Perception: Henri Bergson on How to See Reality By Maria Popova In 1896, decades before Santiago Ramón y Cajal pioneered neuroscience, more than a century before...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova30 Aug 2026
Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley on the Surest Remedy for a Sunken Spirit and What Makes Life Worth Living By Maria Popova Half a century before Walt Whitman considered what makes life worth living...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova29 Aug 2026
Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life By Maria Popova “Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both is altered,” the great...
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