Search results for “c. s. lewis”
Reclaiming Friendship: A Visual Taxonomy of Platonic Relationships to Counter the Commodification of the Word “Friend”
Exploring the concentric circles of human connection through the lens of our ideal and real selves.
Chelsea Clinton Reads James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Role in Society
“The war of an artist with his society is a lover’s war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.”
Lou Andreas-Salomé, the First Woman Psychoanalyst, on Depression and Creativity in Letters to Rilke
“A great deal of poetic work has arisen from various despairs.”
The Rise of Rocket Girls: The Untold Story of the Remarkable Women Who Powered Space Exploration
How a small group of “human computers” upended the gender norms of their day to conquer the cosmos.
How Arthur Rackham’s 1907 Drawings for Alice in Wonderland Revolutionized the Carroll Classic, the Technology of Book Art, and the Economics of Illustration
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Neuroscientist Sam Harris on Our Misconceptions About Free Will and How Acknowledging Its Illusoriness Liberates Us Rather Than Taking Away Our Freedom
“Understanding this truth about the human mind has the potential to change our sense of moral goodness and what it would mean to create a just society.”
Hermann Hesse on the Three Types of Readers and the Most Transcendent Form of Reading
“At the hour when our imagination and our ability to associate are at their height, we really no longer read what is printed on the paper but swim in a stream of impulses and inspirations that reach us from what we are reading.”
Lenny & Lucy: A Lovely Illustrated Parable of Befriending Change and Transcending Our Fear of the Unknown
A gentle reminder that the hostility of the world is in the eye of the beholder and its antidote is openhearted curiosity.
Why We Read: Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on What Books Do for the Human Spirit
“Homo Ludens with a book is free… free — and no other hobby can promise this — to eavesdrop on Montaigne’s arguments or take a quick dip in the Mesozoic.”
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