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You Belong Here: An Illustrated Antidote to Our Existential Homelessness
Sweet consolation for the lifelong alienation that afflicts each of us at different times and in different measures.
King of the Sky: A Lyrical Illustrated Fable of Belonging and the Meaning of Home
A soulful sidewise gleam at the loneliness of the immigrant experience.
Cutting Greens: Terrance Hayes Reads Lucille Clifton’s Spare and Stunning Ode to the Kinship of All Creatures
A glorious fifteen-line celebration of “the bond of live things everywhere.”
200 Years of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece as a Lens on Today’s Most Pressing Questions of Science, Ethics, and Human Creativity
“The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.”
The Mangrove and the Meaning of Life: Annie Dillard on What Earth’s Most Otherworldly Trees Teach Us About Being Human
“We don’t know where we belong, but in times of sorrow it doesn’t seem to be here… where space is curved… we’re all going to die, and it seems as wise to stay in bed as budge.”
What We Imagine Knowledge to Be: James Gleick Reads Elizabeth Bishop
“If you tasted it, it would first taste bitter, then briny, then surely burn your tongue. It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world…”
The Universe in Verse: Astrophysicist Natalie Batalha Reads Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Renascence” and Tells a Lyrical Personal Story About Her Path to Science
A poetic reflection on what we look at and what we see through the veils of our perception.
Amanda Palmer and The Decomposers Cover Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” in Tribute to Rachel Carson
Art and science meet resistance in a modern reimagining of a classic anthem for the protection of nature.
How to Eat an Apricot: Diane Ackerman on Art, Science, and Wonder
“First warm its continuous curve in cupped hands, holding it as you might a brandy snifter, then caress the velvety sheen with one thumb, and run your fingertips over its nap…”
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