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The Terror of Kindness: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Overriding Our Cultural Conditioning and Living Beyond Fear
“Watching him walk away, I felt that I had missed part of the experience because of my eyes, because my eyes were made in Baltimore, because my eyes were blindfolded by fear.”
Conundrum: Pioneering Trans Writer Jan Morris on Gender, Identity, Belonging, and the Integration of Body and Spirit
“There is no norm. We are all different; none of us is entirely wrong; to understand is to forgive.”
The Confidence Game: What Con Artists Reveal About the Psychology of Trust and Why Even the Most Rational of Us Are Susceptible to Deception
“It’s the oldest story ever told. The story of belief — of the basic, irresistible, universal human need to believe in something that gives life meaning, something that reaffirms our view of ourselves, the world, and our place in it.”
The 15 Best Books of 2015
Rewarding reflections on time, love, loss, courage, creativity, and other transformations of the heart.
Louise Bourgeois on Art, Integrity, the Trap of False Humility, and the Key to Creative Confidence
“To be an artist is a guarantee to your fellow humans that the wear and tear of living will not let you become a murderer.”
Perception and the Power of the Critical Imagination: Alfred Kazin on Embracing Contradiction and How the Sacredness of Human Attention Shapes Our Reality
“The day, the living day, the actual moment, the pang of real life, — to be faithful to this, one must always pay attention, one must never dismiss anything a priori as too trivial.”
Virginia Woolf on the Relationship Between Loneliness and Creativity
“If I could catch the feeling, I would; the feeling of the singing of the real world, as one is driven by loneliness and silence from the habitable world.”
The Problem of Shakespeare’s Sister: Virginia Woolf on Gender in Creative Culture
“To write a work of genius is almost always a feat of prodigious difficulty. Everything is against the likelihood that it will come from the writer’s mind whole and entire.”
The Best Science Books of 2015
From Earth’s largest-hearted creature to the interconnectedness of the universe, by way of Einstein and artificial intelligence.
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