Search results for “mary shelley”
Patti Smith on the Two Kinds of Masterpieces and Her Fifty Favorite Books
“Everything pours forth. Photographs their history. Books their words. Walls their sounds.”
The Bed Book: Sylvia Plath’s Vintage Poems for Kids, Illustrated by Quentin Blake
“Most Beds are Beds for sleeping and resting, but the best Beds are much more interesting!”
Full Tilt: Dervla Murphy’s Fierce and Poetic Account of Traversing the World on Two Wheels in the 1960s
A wonder-smitten reminder “that for all the horrible chaos of the contemporary political scene this world is full of kindness.”
Until the End of Time: Physicist Brian Greene on the Poetry of Existence and the Wellspring of Meaning in Our Ephemeral Lives Amid an Impartial Universe
“From our lonely corner of the cosmos we have used creativity and imagination to shape words and images and structures and sounds to express our longings and frustrations, our confusions and revelations, our failures and triumphs.”
Extraordinary Letters on Love, Life, Death, Courage, and Moral Purpose Without Religion from a Victorian Woman Who Lived and Died with Uncommon Bravery
“Love, like strength and courage, is a strange thing; the more we give the more we find we have to give.”
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me: Maya Angelou’s Courageous Children’s Verses, Illustrated by Basquiat
A priceless primer on poetry and contemporary art for little ones, and a timeless reminder of the power of courage in all of us.
7 Obscure Children’s Books by Authors of Grown-Up Literature
What a moral cat has to do with a lost boy, a happy prince and the rules for little girls.
The Geometry of Grief: A Mathematician on How Fractals Can Help Us Fathom Loss and Reorient to the Ongoingness of Life
“The distance between here and there is the answer to the wrong question.”
An Occasion for Unselfing: Iris Murdoch on Imperfection as Integral to Goodness and How the Beauty of Nature and Art Leavens Our Most Unselfish Impulses
“The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself… to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it really is.”
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