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How to Get Out of Your Own Way: John Berryman on the Three Demons of Creative Work
How to Get Out of Your Own Way: John Berryman on the Three Demons of Creative Work

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How to See the Golden Light: Oliver Sacks in Love
How to See the Golden Light: Oliver Sacks in Love

“The day steeps everything in golden liquid… A sidewalk cafe in the evening, with a wonderful amber light flooding through the doors and windows: huge, mad stars in an indigo sky. For this, you have to be great, crazy, or wildly in love.”

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Favorite Books of the Year: Art, Science, Poetry, Psychology, Children’s, and More
Favorite Books of the Year: Art, Science, Poetry, Psychology, Children’s, and More

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No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life
No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life

“We must live it, now, a day at a time and be very careful not to hurt each other.”

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D.H. Lawrence on the Hypocrisies of Social Change and What It Actually Takes to Shift the Status Quo
D.H. Lawrence on the Hypocrisies of Social Change and What It Actually Takes to Shift the Status Quo

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Living Against Time: Virginia Woolf on the Art of Presence and the “Moments of Being” That Make You Who You Are
Living Against Time: Virginia Woolf on the Art of Presence and the “Moments of Being” That Make You Who You Are

In praise of “the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.”

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The Stubborn Art of Turning Suffering into Strength: Václav Havel’s Extraordinary Letters from Prison
The Stubborn Art of Turning Suffering into Strength: Václav Havel’s Extraordinary Letters from Prison

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From the Labor Camp to the Canon: How Dostoyevsky Became a Writer
From the Labor Camp to the Canon: How Dostoyevsky Became a Writer

“I have nothing, except for certain, and perhaps very minor, literary abilities.”

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The Art of Allowing Change: Neurobiologist Susan R. Barry’s Moving Correspondence with Oliver Sacks about the Blessed Overwhelm of Transformation
The Art of Allowing Change: Neurobiologist Susan R. Barry’s Moving Correspondence with Oliver Sacks about the Blessed Overwhelm of Transformation

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Simone Weil on Love and Its Counterfeit
Simone Weil on Love and Its Counterfeit

How to tell a plaything from a necessity.

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