Reads by Maria Popova
The Building Blocks of Personhood: Oliver Sacks on Neurocognitive Pillar of What Makes Us Who We Are
“Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives — we are each of us unique.”
The Black Robin and the Power of Tenacious Tenderness: How a Single Mother Brought an Entire Species Back from the Brink of Extinction
The Loveliness of Letting Go: An Illustrated Ode to Life’s Lasts
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.”
The Resilience of Uncertainty: How to Hold the Universe in You
Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being
“One has to shut off that nagging part of the mind and go on without it with bravo and philosophy.”
The More Loving One: The Science of Entropy and the Art of Alternative Endings
“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.”
How to Be Un-Dead: Notes on Waking Up from the Trance of Near-Living
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”
How to Bear Your Desolations
“You may have to break your heart, but it isn’t nothing to know even one moment alive.”
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