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Dear Me: Letters by Luminaries to Their 16-Year-Old Selves
Dear Me: Letters by Luminaries to Their 16-Year-Old Selves

What the renouncement of dieting has to do with love and buying shares in Google.

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The Alphabet Refracted Through Backlit Letters Shot on iPhone
The Alphabet Refracted Through Backlit Letters Shot on iPhone

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Show & Tell: A Century of Illustrated Letters
Show & Tell: A Century of Illustrated Letters

120 years of handwriting so bad it necessitates visual aid, or why hipsters didn’t invent irreverence.

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We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt, the Power of Defiant Goodwill, and the Art of Beginning Afresh
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt, the Power of Defiant Goodwill, and the Art of Beginning Afresh

“It is when the experience of powerlessness is at its most acute, when history seems at its most bleak, that the determination to think like a human being, creatively, courageously, and complicatedly, matters the most.”

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The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom
The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom

“While we weaken friendships by expecting too little of them, we undermine romantic relationships by expecting too much of them.”

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