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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name

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Terrible

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The World’s Oldest Cave Art, Discovered in Indonesia, Is at Least 67,800 Years Old

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If You Think This Instrument Is Hard to Play, Try Building One

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Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism

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How to Bear Your Fear and What It Means to Love: A Tender Meditation in Ink, Watercolor, and Wonder

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In defense of popups

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Orcas and the Price of Consciousness: Lessons in Love and Loss from Earth’s Most Successful and Creative Predator

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How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty

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Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss

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The Purest Definition of Love, the Qualities of a Lasting Relationship, and the Salve for the Betrayals of Time

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Rare Glimpses of Diverse Marine Life Take the Stage in This Year’s Ocean Art Photography Contest

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Art for Dignity

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A better mousetrap

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Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gift

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Artists Call on Jewish Museum’s Support to Save New Deal-Era Murals

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Studio Museum Evacuates Visitors After “Sprinkler Emergency”

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Philadelphia Sues Trump Administration Over Removal of Slavery Exhibits

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Ellen Harvey’s Elegy to Lost Places

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I thought this said “Winamp” and I got really excited....

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A Millennia-Long Fascination With Armor

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Daft Punk Deep Cuts DJ Set

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Personal Identities Pair with Sartorial Expression in Paintings by Glenn Hardy Jr.

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A review of Sven Beckert’s Capitalism. “‘No religion, no ideology, no philosophy,...

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Nice piece about the forgotten queer artist Marlow Moss, whose work and...

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The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel

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A Chinese factory mistakenly stitched a frown on a Year of the...

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Jeff Koons’s Reflective Sculptures Mirror the One Percent

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Marvin Heinzel Gets Up-Close and Personal with Characterful Avians

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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota, including donating money, hassling...

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Two Artists Consider How Chicago Shapes Its Youth in ‘World in My Eyes’

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Today, Minnesotans are striking (“no work, no school, no shopping”), protesting, and...

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A Somali-American Artist Speaks Out

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Computers can’t surprise

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Bent incentives

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Discover the World’s First Earthquake Detector, Invented in China 2,000 Years Ago

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity

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Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to His Abusive and Narcissistic Father

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Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert

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On Tilt

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Congress Funds Institute for American Indian Arts

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Art Movements: New Leaders Everywhere

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A Spell Against Fear: Tracy K. Smith on Poetry and The Art of Productive Impatience

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The Best Films of 2025

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Required Reading

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Nicola L.’s Soft Power

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