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Why Some People Think in Words, While Others Think in Pictures & Feelings

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Frank Gehry Designed His Own Home, and What It Teaches About Creative Risk

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The Blessing of Burnout: Samin Nosrat on the Faustian Bargain of Achievement and the Simple Substance of the Good Life

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

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The Guardian: here’s how Substack makes money...

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Free agency

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Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance

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Relationship Rupture and the Limbic System: The Physiology of Abandonment and Separation

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The Art World's Epstein Problem

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Vessel size

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A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want

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When Artists Lose Their Archives

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How Edo (Tokyo) transformed from a city on the brink of...

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Brooklyn “Wall of Tears” Lists Names of Children Killed in Gaza

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The Unruly Politics of Glitter

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“ Printing Films is a collection of vintage films...

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Does It Have to Mean Something to Be Great?

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Why don’t filmmakers just film on location instead...

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Oliver Sacks on Despair and the Meaning of Life

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The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece

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Mona Lisa’s Face Redacted in Latest Trove of Epstein Files

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Dying Mothers, the Birth of Handwashing, and the Bittersweet True Love Story Behind ‘Frankenstein’

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Through Vivid Color, Martin Wittfooth Revels in Surreal Worlds

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Dan Sinker writes about the transformative experience of...

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Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning

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Venom in His Veins

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“How did medieval French handwriting become...

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Do you remember Oddpost? It was an early email web app...

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Tinder Hasn’t Worked, So I’m Putting Myself...

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The Forest-Like Interior of Coral Takes the Grand Prize in the CUPOTY 7 Photo Contest

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Why the Future of Movies Lives on Letterboxd

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The Art World After Epstein

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How selfish are we?

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Voluntary stories

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Discover Khipu, the Ancient Incan Record & Writing System Made Entirely of Knots

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”

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The Reason of Emotion: Bruce Lee’s Unpublished Writings on Willpower, Imagination, and Confidence

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I’ve always said more popstars should duet with...

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Epstein Files Expose the Depths of the Art World's Rot

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Art Movements: Ekow Eshun Heads to Santa Fe

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The Triumph of Europe’s Social Democracy

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Professor Walt Hunter on the merits of challenging...

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National Gallery of Art Acquires Stirring Artemisia Masterpiece

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Required Reading

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A View From the Easel

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The Mountain That Weighed the Earth . How scientists in...

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Keep the Meter Running With Mouhamadou Aliy & Zohran Mamdani

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Some cool animations made from Japanese receipts by...

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A Haunting in Brooklyn

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