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Why We Write About Ourselves: Some of Today’s Most Celebrated Writers on the Art of Telling Personal Stories That Unravel Universal Truth
“Making art is all about humans and our psychology: who we are, how we behave, what we do with the hand we’ve been dealt. It’s closer to your own bone when it’s a memoir, but the bone is still the bone.”
How to Bless Each Other: Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on the Light Within Us and Between Us
“The structures of our experience are the windows into the divine. When we are true to the call of experience, we are true to God.”
How Our Story Ends: Richard Powers on Rewriting Earth’s Future History
Reawakening to the rapture and responsibility of “a changing world that by every calculation ought never to have been.”
Darwin Among the Machines: A Victorian Visionary’s Prophetic Admonition for Saving Ourselves from Enslavement by Artificial Intelligence
“We are ourselves creating our own successors… We are daily giving them… that self-regulating, self-acting power which will be to them what intellect has been to the human race. In the course of ages we shall find ourselves the inferior race.”
In a Library: Emily Dickinson on Why We Read and the Magic of Old Books
A love-poem to those folds in spacetime that take us back to “when Sappho was a living girl.”
Between Psyche and Cyborg: Carl Jung’s Legacy and the Countercultural Courage to Reclaim the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age
“A reanimated world is one in which spirit and matter are not just equally regarded but recognized as mutually dependent.”
Uses of the Erotic: Audre Lorde on the Relationship Between Eros, Creativity, and Power
“There is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love.”
Music and the Price of What We Cherish: Margaret Atwood on the Bonds and Obligations of Creative Gifts
“Gifts transform the soul in ways that simple commodities cannot.”
Psychedelic Dinosaurs, Four-Dimensional Hummingbirds, and How We Got Our Vision: Color, Consciousness, and the Dazzling Universe of Tetrachromacy
“When we pay attention to other animals, our own world expands and deepens.”
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