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Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go – The Marginalian
August 28, 2026
Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go – The Marginalian
[ad_1] This essay and poem are part of the Universe in Verse book. Trees grant us some of the richest…
How to Be Reborn Each Day – The Marginalian
August 28, 2026
How to Be Reborn Each Day – The Marginalian
[ad_1] In their strange cosmogony predating Copernicus by two millennia, the ancient Greek scientific sect of the Pythagoreans placed at…
Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech – The Marginalian
August 28, 2026
Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech – The Marginalian
[ad_1] Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872–February 2, 1970) endures as one of humanity’s most lucid and luminous minds — an…
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness – The Marginalian
August 27, 2026
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness – The Marginalian
[ad_1] It starts with a low hum that adheres itself to the underbelly of the hours like another dimension. Gradually,…
The Moving Letter James Baldwin Received from His Childhood Teacher at the Peak of His Fame and His Heartbreak – The Marginalian
August 26, 2026
The Moving Letter James Baldwin Received from His Childhood Teacher at the Peak of His Fame and His Heartbreak – The Marginalian
[ad_1] In early 1934, a twenty-four-year-old graduate student at Columbia Teachers College took an internship teaching drama and producing student…
AI Prophet Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity – The Marginalian
August 26, 2026
AI Prophet Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity – The Marginalian
[ad_1] “The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do [only] whatever we know how to…
What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and What Makes Great Person – The Marginalian
August 26, 2026
What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and What Makes Great Person – The Marginalian
[ad_1] I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman.…
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance – The Marginalian
August 25, 2026
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance – The Marginalian
[ad_1] One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it…
Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness – The Marginalian
August 25, 2026
Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness – The Marginalian
[ad_1] “The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of…
The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life – The Marginalian
August 25, 2026
The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life – The Marginalian
[ad_1] “A person’s identity,” Amin Maalouf wrote as he contemplated what he so poetically called the genes of the soul,…
