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Debriefing: Susan Sontag Reads from <em>I, Etcetera</em>
Debriefing: Susan Sontag Reads from I, Etcetera

“With more people, there are more voices to tune out.”

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Shakespeare, Sadness-Shaman: How Hamlet Can Help Us Through Our Grief and Despair
Shakespeare, Sadness-Shaman: How Hamlet Can Help Us Through Our Grief and Despair

“Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming…”

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<em>New Yorker</em> Cartoonist Roz Chast’s Remarkable Illustrated Meditation on Aging, Illness, and Death
New Yorker Cartoonist Roz Chast’s Remarkable Illustrated Meditation on Aging, Illness, and Death

Making sense of the human journey with wit, wisdom, and disarming vulnerability.

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The Relationship Between Creativity and Mental Illness
The Relationship Between Creativity and Mental Illness

The science behind the “tortured genius” myth and what it reveals about how the creative mind actually works.

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How to Find Yourself
How to Find Yourself

“Little triumphs are the pennies of self-esteem.”

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The Universe, “Branes,” and the Science of Multiple Dimensions
The Universe, “Branes,” and the Science of Multiple Dimensions

How a needle, a shower curtain, and a New England clam explain the possibility of parallel universes.

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The Science of Dust, Picasso’s Favorite Phenomenon
The Science of Dust, Picasso’s Favorite Phenomenon

“With every breath, we inhale a bit of the story of our universe, our planet’s past and future…”

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Jeanette Winterson on Time, Language, Reading, and How Art Creates a Sanctified Space for the Human Spirit
Jeanette Winterson on Time, Language, Reading, and How Art Creates a Sanctified Space for the Human Spirit

“Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don’t accept things for their face value; you don’t have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.”

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Adam Phillips on Why a Capacity for “Fertile Solitude” Is Essential for Self-Esteem and Healthy Relationships
Adam Phillips on Why a Capacity for “Fertile Solitude” Is Essential for Self-Esteem and Healthy Relationships

From teenage rebellion to self-reliance, how we learn to be alone.

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The Book of Trees: 800 Years of Symbolic Diagrams Visualizing Human Knowledge
The Book of Trees: 800 Years of Symbolic Diagrams Visualizing Human Knowledge

How the humble tree became our most powerful visual metaphor for organizing information and distilling our understanding of the world.

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