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An Animated Ode to What a Dog Can Teach Us About the Meaning of Life

Mastering the art of unselfconscious presence.

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Cats, Dogs, and the Human Condition: The Year’s Best Books about Pets and Animals

Artful cats, literary dogs, Bob Dylan, and a whole lot of non-human genius.

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Pardon the Egg Salad Stains, But I’m in Love: Billy Collins Reads His Poem “Marginalia”

“We have all seized the white perimeter as our own and reached for a pen if only to show we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages…”

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The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, Illustrated

Love, loss, and the conquest of French cuisine.

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Heroism and the Human Search for Meaning: Ernest Becker on the Hidden Root of Our Existential Longing

“To become conscious of what one is doing to earn his feeling of heroism is the main self-analytic problem of life.”

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Three Delightful Poems About Dogs from E.B. White

A charming celebration from literary history’s premiere champion of the canine.

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Legendary Cartoonist Ralph Steadman’s Inkblot Dog Drawings

Canine humanity from the beloved Gonzo cartoonist.

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Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers

Hemingway, Didion, Baldwin, Fitzgerald, Sontag, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Morrison, Orwell, Le Guin, Woolf, and other titans of literature.

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Favorite Children’s Books of 2023

Tender and poetic reckonings with friendship, fear, love, solitude, black holes, deep time, and the interconnectedness of life.

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The Art of Lying Fallow: Psychoanalyst Masud Khan on the Existential Salve for the Age of Cultish Productivity and Compulsive Distraction

On inviting the state of being that “allows for that larval inner experience which distinguishes true psychic creativity from obsessional productiveness.”

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Search results for “Mary Oliver”

Mastering the art of unselfconscious presence.

Artful cats, literary dogs, Bob Dylan, and a whole lot of non-human genius.

“We have all seized the white perimeter as our own and reached for a pen if only to show we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages…”

Love, loss, and the conquest of French cuisine.

“To become conscious of what one is doing to earn his feeling of heroism is the main self-analytic problem of life.”

A charming celebration from literary history’s premiere champion of the canine.

Canine humanity from the beloved Gonzo cartoonist.

Hemingway, Didion, Baldwin, Fitzgerald, Sontag, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Morrison, Orwell, Le Guin, Woolf, and other titans of literature.

Tender and poetic reckonings with friendship, fear, love, solitude, black holes, deep time, and the interconnectedness of life.

On inviting the state of being that “allows for that larval inner experience which distinguishes true psychic creativity from obsessional productiveness.”

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