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

18h

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

23h

Any Common Desolation

The Art of Befriending Time and Change: Debbie Millman’s Illustrated Love Letter to Gardening as a Portal to Self-discovery

The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us About the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All Scales

The Pattern Inside the Pattern: Fractals, the Hidden Order Beneath Chaos, and the Story of the Refugee Who Revolutionized the Mathematics of Reality

Wherever You Think There Is Nothing

Hemingway’s Advice on Writing, Ambition, and His Reading List of Essential Books for Aspiring Writers

The Measure of a Rich Life: Wendell Berry on Delight as a Force of Resistance and the Key to Felicitous Sanity During Hardship

Michael Rosen’s Sad Book: A Beautiful Anatomy of Loss, Illustrated by Quentin Blake

The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

Do Not Spare Yourself

The Courage of Vulnerability: Teenage Frida Kahlo’s Moving Letters to Her First Love

Why Are We Not Better Than We Are: How Poetry Saves Lives

The Three Elements of the Good Life

The Intelligence of Emotions: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How Storytelling Rewires Us and Why Befriending Our Neediness Is Essential for Happiness

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

How Flamingos Got Their Pink

Nick Cave on Creative Work as an Instrument of Self-Forgiveness and the Courage of Hope in Cynical Times

A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety

Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain

Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed

The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul

Emerson on Talent vs. Character, Our Resistance to Change, and the Key to True Personal Growth

How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust

Corrective for a Broken Heart

The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty

How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James

Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise

How to Stop Doing and Start Living

Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation

Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness

Create Dangerously: Albert Camus on the Power of Art as Resistance and Creativity as an Instrument of Freedom

The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form

Something Deeper Than Hope: Terry Tempest Williams on Our Stays Against Despair

Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers

The Music of Trees: Improvisation, Iteration, and the Science of Immortality

Place, Personhood, and the Hippocampus: The Fascinating Science of Magnetism, Autonoeic Consciousness, and What Makes Us Who We Are

The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity

This Is a Poem That Heals Fish: An Almost Unbearably Wonderful Picture-Book About How Poetry Works Its Magic

When Your Parents Are Dying: Some of the Simplest, Most Difficult and Redemptive Life-Advice You’ll Ever Receive

Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain

Where Love Goes When It Goes

Reweaving the Rainbow: Divinations for Living from the Science of Life

Do the Next Right Thing: Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of His Famous Tenet for Navigating Uncertainty

What Forgiveness Takes

The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship