Search results for “Kids”
Rebecca Solnit on Rewriting the World’s Broken Stories and the Paradigm-Shifting Power of Calling Things by Their True Names
“To name something truly is to lay bare what may be brutal or corrupt — or important or possible — and key to the work of changing the world is changing the story.”
Little Panic: A Literary Laboratory Exploring What It Is Like to Live in the Stranglehold of Anxiety and What It Takes to Break Free
“This terrible truth binds us all: fear there’s a single, unattainable, correct way to be human.”
Anna Deavere Smith on the Importance of Bringing Light to History’s Shadows and Resisting the Destructive Patterns Handed Down to Us by Our Invisible Pasts
“A beating — even a public beating — could happen without anyone so much as striking a blow.”
Zadie Smith on What Writers Can Learn from Some of History’s Greatest Dancers
“Between propriety and joy choose joy.”
Ursula K. Le Guin on Busyness and the Creative Life
In praise of the mundane, unquantifiable, impractical activities that feed creative work and fill life with meaning.
Little Man, Little Man: James Baldwin’s Only Children’s Book, Celebrating the Art of Seeing and Black Children’s Self-Esteem
“A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience.”
Walking the City with Jane: An Illustrated Celebration of Jane Jacobs and Her Legacy of Livable Cities
How a woman of great courage and great humanity changed the way we build cities, taught communities to stand up for themselves, and inspired generations to look up.
Meryl Streep Reads “Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath
A paean and requiem for new parenthood — the love, the strangeness, the surreal and magnetic disorientation of it.
Werner Heisenberg Falls in Love: The Love Letters of the Nobel-Winning Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics and Originator of the Uncertainty Principle
“Life’s essence should always be clearly noticeable behind the love, or the music, or the work.”
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