Self Aware

In 1964, Pantheon Books invited J.R.R. Tolkien (January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973) to write an introduction to George MacDonald’s The…

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“Friendship is unnecessary,” C.S. Lewis wrote, “like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… it has no survival value; rather…

“Our minds are all threaded together,” the young Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary at the dawn of the twentieth…

Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves, continually stymied by all we mistake for a…

The weather has seeded our earliest myths, inspired some of our greatest art, and even affects the way we think.…

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In 1957, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) became the second youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature,…

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFEby Maria Popova Don’t try to washyour tired handsclean from the bloodshedof your private wars.Just unclench…

“Love is the quality of attention we pay to things,” poet J.D. McClatchy wrote in his beautiful meditation on the…