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North Brother Island: Haunting Photographs of the Last Unknown Place in New York City
An otherworldly portrait of the eternal dance between life and death, wilderness and civilization.
On “Beauty”: Marilynne Robinson on Writing, What Storytelling Can Learn from Science, and the Splendors of Uncertainty
“We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.”
C.S. Lewis on True Friendship
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
The Psychology of Writing and the Cognitive Science of the Perfect Daily Routine
How to sculpt an environment that optimizes creative flow and summons relevant knowledge from your long-term memory through the right retrieval cues.
How Susan Sontag Possessed New York and Subverted Sexual Stereotypes
“Sontag seemed to exude an irresistible mixture of intelligence, hipness, sex, and beauty.”
The People’s Platform: An Essential Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Cultural Commons in the Age of Commerce
“We are embedded beings who create work in a social context, toiling shared soil in the hopes that our labor bears fruit. It is up to all of us whether this soil is enriched or depleted, whether it nurtures diverse and vital produce or allows predictable crops to take root and run rampant.”
A History of New York in 101 Objects: A Thoughtful Visual Encyclopedia of Collective Memory
How artifacts abstract the city’s tragedies and triumphs and tell the story of its aliveness.
Anne Truitt on Resisting the Label “Artist” and the Difference Between Doing Art and Being an Artist
“Artists have no choice but to express their lives.”
Charity and Sylvia: The Remarkable Story of How Two Women Married Each Other in Early America
“For 40 years… they have shared each other’s occupations and pleasures and works of charity while in health, and watched over each other tenderly in sickness.”
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