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The 13 Best Biographies, Memoirs, and History Books of 2013
The 13 Best Biographies, Memoirs, and History Books of 2013

From Alan Turing to Susan Sontag, by way of a lost cat, a fierce Victorian lady-journalist, and some very odd creative habits.

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Happy Birthday, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: 21 Essential Reads on Education
Happy Birthday, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: 21 Essential Reads on Education

Bertrand Russell, Richard Feynman, Susan Sontag, Noam Chomsky, Isaac Asimov, Kio Stark, and more.

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Believing Is Seeing: Errol Morris Unravels the Greatest Mysteries of Photojournalism
Believing Is Seeing: Errol Morris Unravels the Greatest Mysteries of Photojournalism

What Susan Sontag has to do with Twitter hoaxes and the untold stories of WPA propaganda.

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Inside The Kelly Writers House Audio Archives
Inside The Kelly Writers House Audio Archives

The muses of happiness and misery, or what closet hedonism has to do with the arts.

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Favorite Children’s Books of 2023
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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Famous Writers on New York: Timeless Private Reflections from Diaries, Letters and Personal Essays
Famous Writers on New York: Timeless Private Reflections from Diaries, Letters and Personal Essays

Mark Twain, Susan Sontag, Simone de Beauvoir, E. B. White, Washington Irving, Anaïs Nin, Italo Calvino, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Joyce Carol Oates, and more.

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Redirect: A New Way to Think About Psychological Change
Redirect: A New Way to Think About Psychological Change

How Aristotle went about cultivating virtue, or what Susan Sontag can teach us about self-improvement.

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Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity

Why creativity is like LEGO, or what Richard Dawkins has to do with Susan Sontag and Gandhi.

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Love and the Sacred
Love and the Sacred

“I did not know what love was until I encountered one that kept opening and opening and opening.”

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Alone Together: An Illustrated Celebration of the Art of Shared Solitude
Alone Together: An Illustrated Celebration of the Art of Shared Solitude

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