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The Best Children’s Books of 2016

From love to mortality to the lives of Einstein and Louise Bourgeois, by way of silence and the color of the wind.

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Storytelling and the Power of Language: Toni Morrison’s Spectacular Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

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Dissident Poet Boris Pasternak on Aloneness and Why We Make Art

“A book is nothing but a cube of hot, smoking conscience.”

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10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings

Fluid reflections on keeping a solid center.

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I Am Not I: Philosopher Jacob Needleman on How We Become Who We Are and the Path to Self-Liberation

“There is always something more than two opposing truths. The whole truth always includes a third part, which is the reconciliation.”

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The Greatest Science Books of 2016

From the sound of spacetime to time travel to the microbiome, by way of polar bears, dogs, and trees.

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This Is Not a Picture Book: An Irreverent Illustrated Ode to Why We Read

Charming cartography for the emotional voyages on which books take us.

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Multivocality, Polyphony, Gumbo Yaya: Elizabeth Alexander, Barack Obama’s Inaugural Poet, on the Power of Poetry in Moments of Powerlessness

“We just have to really, really, really dust ourselves off and do our work. That’s all there is to it — love each other, do your work.”

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Proust on Why We Read

“The end of a book’s wisdom appears to us as merely the start of our own, so that at the moment when the book has told us everything it can, it gives rise to the feeling that it has told us nothing.”

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Why Anonymity Is More Artistically Rewarding Than Fame: Virginia Woolf on Elena Ferrante

“Obscurity rids the mind of the irk of envy and spite; [it] sets running in the veins the free waters of generosity and magnanimity; and allows giving and taking without thanks offered or praise given.”

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Search results for “the readers”

From love to mortality to the lives of Einstein and Louise Bourgeois, by way of silence and the color of the wind.

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

“A book is nothing but a cube of hot, smoking conscience.”

Fluid reflections on keeping a solid center.

“There is always something more than two opposing truths. The whole truth always includes a third part, which is the reconciliation.”

From the sound of spacetime to time travel to the microbiome, by way of polar bears, dogs, and trees.

Charming cartography for the emotional voyages on which books take us.

“We just have to really, really, really dust ourselves off and do our work. That’s all there is to it — love each other, do your work.”

“The end of a book’s wisdom appears to us as merely the start of our own, so that at the moment when the book has told us everything it can, it gives rise to the feeling that it has told us nothing.”

“Obscurity rids the mind of the irk of envy and spite; [it] sets running in the veins the free waters of generosity and magnanimity; and allows giving and taking without thanks offered or praise given.”

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