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Dame Steve Shirley, the World’s First Freelance Programmer

Dame Steve Shirley, the World’s First Freelance Programmer

“Few things in life are as solid as they seem.”

Joan Didion on Grief

Joan Didion on Grief

“Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.”

The 13 Best Art and Design Books of 2013

The 13 Best Art and Design Books of 2013

Imaginative maps, illuminating infographics, literary cats, vintage Soviet propaganda, Gertrude Stein’s favorite objects, and other treats for eye and spirit.

J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”

J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”

“Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else … may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.”

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