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The 15 Best Books of 2015
The 15 Best Books of 2015

Rewarding reflections on time, love, loss, courage, creativity, and other transformations of the heart.

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The Best Art Books of 2015
The Best Art Books of 2015

Urban dogs, underworld dragons, the unseen Peanuts, and every living person in New York.

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Neil Gaiman on How Stories Last
Neil Gaiman on How Stories Last

“Stories … are genuinely symbiotic organisms that we live with, that allow human beings to advance.”

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Beware the Rise of the Pseudo-Intellectual: Tom Wolfe’s Boston University Commencement Address
Beware the Rise of the Pseudo-Intellectual: Tom Wolfe’s Boston University Commencement Address

“We live in an age in which ideas, important ideas, are worn like articles of fashion.”

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Creative Courage for Young Hearts: 15 Emboldening Picture Books Celebrating the Lives of Great Artists, Writers, and Scientists
Creative Courage for Young Hearts: 15 Emboldening Picture Books Celebrating the Lives of Great Artists, Writers, and Scientists

Jane Goodall, Julia Child, Pablo Neruda, Marie Curie, E.E. Cummings, Albert Einstein, Ella Fitzgerald, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Frida Kahlo, and more.

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H Is for Hawk: Helen Macdonald on Love, Loss, Time, and Our Improbable Allies in Healing
H Is for Hawk: Helen Macdonald on Love, Loss, Time, and Our Improbable Allies in Healing

“The world is full of signs and wonders that come, and go, and if you are lucky you might be alive to see them.”

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The Science of Why We Cry and the Three Types of Tears
The Science of Why We Cry and the Three Types of Tears

What stress hormones have to do with the social machinery of sympathy.

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Wanderlust: Rebecca Solnit on Walking and the Mind
Wanderlust: Rebecca Solnit on Walking and the Mind

“I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.”

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Non-human Animals and the Human Imagination: Thinking with Other Beings, from Aesop to Darwin to YouTube
Non-human Animals and the Human Imagination: Thinking with Other Beings, from Aesop to Darwin to YouTube

How metaphors of nonhuman beings help us give shape to the human experience and make sense of our inner lives.

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89 Clouds: A Poetic Celebration of Clouds and Everything They Mean
89 Clouds: A Poetic Celebration of Clouds and Everything They Mean

“Clouds are thoughts without words…”

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