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The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: Donald Barthelme’s Irreverent Vintage Children’s Book
The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: Donald Barthelme’s Irreverent Vintage Children’s Book

“Mysteries are not to be avoided. Rather they are a locus of hope, they enrich and complicate. That is why we have them.”

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The Pilot and the Little Prince: Beloved Illustrator Peter Sís Captures the Bittersweet Story of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Pilot and the Little Prince: Beloved Illustrator Peter Sís Captures the Bittersweet Story of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

How an adventurous little boy came to dream up the loveliest children’s book of all time.

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Rare and Stunning Etchings for <em>Ulysses</em> by Italian Artist Mimmo Paladino
Rare and Stunning Etchings for Ulysses by Italian Artist Mimmo Paladino

Emanating James Joyce in black, white, and gold.

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A Visual History of Typewriter Art from 1893 to Today
A Visual History of Typewriter Art from 1893 to Today

How Victorian female stenographers pioneered a unique art form with newfound notoriety in the digital age.

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How Diego Rivera Met the Fierce Teenage Frida Kahlo and Fell in Love with Her Years Later
How Diego Rivera Met the Fierce Teenage Frida Kahlo and Fell in Love with Her Years Later

“I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And she would continue to be, up to the moment she died…”

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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams on How Your Choices Shape the World, Animated
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams on How Your Choices Shape the World, Animated

“Every single thing you do is politics, because the interaction of human beings is politics writ large.”

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A Lesson in Listening from John Cage
A Lesson in Listening from John Cage

A simple and beautiful reminder that we only hear what we listen to.

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Thoreau on the Greatest Gift of Growing Old
Thoreau on the Greatest Gift of Growing Old

How happiness feeds on the hard-earned blessing of making fewer apologies for our existence.

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Alan Lightman on Immortality and Our Touching Longing for Permanence in a Universe of Constant Change
Alan Lightman on Immortality and Our Touching Longing for Permanence in a Universe of Constant Change

A heartening perspective on mortality by way of the physics of the cosmos and the poetics of the night-blooming cereus cactus.

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I Am Cow, Hear Me Moo: A Charming Illustrated Ode to Courage and Confidence
I Am Cow, Hear Me Moo: A Charming Illustrated Ode to Courage and Confidence

Why true heroism feeds on humility.

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