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Albert Camus, born on this day in 1913, on how to live whole in a broken world themarginalian.org/2024/06/2…
How to promise and how to keep promises from breaking themarginalian.org/2026/09/1…
Storytelling and the art of tenderness – Olga Tokarczuk’s magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech themarginalian.org/2022/11/2…
The relationship between comedy, democracy, and AI themarginalian.org/2026/11/0…
"Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous 'I don’t know.'”
Polish poet Wisława Szymborska's magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech themarginalian.org/2017/03/2…
The great poet Marianne Moore on the 3 elements of persuasive writing themarginalian.org/2026/04/2…
The Thing Itself – C.S. Lewis on what we long for in our existential longing themarginalian.org/2022/09/0…
For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter, which turned 20 this autumn — undistracted notes on the search for meaning through art, science, philosophy, poetry, and various other tendrils of wonder — a one-woman labor of love that remains free, ad-free, AI-free, and fully human: themarginalian.org/newslette…
The meaning of maturity – Ursula K. Le Guin on what it really takes to grow up themarginalian.org/2026/06/1…
How to handle a narcissistic and abusive parent – Kafka's remarkable letter to his father themarginalian.org/2026/09/2…
More than two years after these strange visitations of the muse began, I'm still overcome by the urge to do a new #birddivination every once in a while. This is what arrived today on a long flight. Available as a print at bit.ly/kingletdiv. The original set of 100, along with the process and story behind them, always at almanacofbirds.org/
On children – poignant parenting advice from Kahlil Gibran themarginalian.org/2019/09/0…
Diseases of the Will – the founding father of neuroscience on the 6 spiritual pitfalls that keep the talented from reaching greatness themarginalian.org/2017/03/1…
"Our major commitment … is to discover ourselves before discovering scientific truth, to mold ourselves before molding nature."
The founding father of neuroscience on solitude, the search for truth, and the ideal environment for breakthroughs themarginalian.org/2017/04/2…
The generosity of selfishness – C.S. Lewis on how to be interesting themarginalian.org/2026/11/0…
Do you have an "antilibrary"? Umberto Eco's wonderfully counterintuitive perspective on why unread books are better for our inner lives than the ones we have read themarginalian.org/2015/03/2…
“There can be a real meeting between two people at the point where they always felt marooned. Right at the edge.”
Sam Shepard, who would have been 83 today, on love themarginalian.org/2017/08/0…
Charles Darwin's list of the pros and cons of marriage themarginalian.org/2012/08/1…
“Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
Annie Dillard on creativity themarginalian.org/2016/03/2…
