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How Kepler Invented Science Fiction and Defended His Mother in a Witchcraft Trial While Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Universe

The Most Valiant Way to Complain Is to Create: William Blake and the Stubborn Courage of the Unexampled

James Baldwin on How to Live Through Your Darkest Hour and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe

The Light Between Us

Love After Love: Derek Walcott’s Poetic Ode to Relearning to Be at Home in Ourselves After Heartbreak

The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear

Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death

When Einstein Met Tagore: A Remarkable Meeting of Minds on the Edge of Science and Spirituality

Immortality in Passing: Poet Lisel Mueller, Who Lived to 96, on What Gives Meaning to Our Ephemeral Lives

What It’s Like to Touch the Bottom of the World

Do Not Spare Yourself

Albert Camus on How to Live Whole in a Broken World

Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”

Is There a God? Stephen Hawking Gives the Definitive Answer to the Eternal Question

Cephalopod Atlas: Stunning, Sensual Illustrations from the World’s First Encyclopedia of Octopus and Squid Wonders from the Ocean Depths

The Pleasure of Being Left Alone

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to His Abusive and Narcissistic Father

Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert

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

The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

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

Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace

Let the Last Thing Be Song

How to Be an Instrument of Kindness in a Harsh World: George Saunders on Unthinking the Mind, Unstorying the Self, and the 3 Antidotes to Your Suffering

Elif Shafak on the Three Roots of Hate and How to Be a Star Student of Life

Emerson on How to Touch the Universe

How Not to Be a Victim of Time: Rebecca West on Music and Life

How to Hold the Darkness: Notes on Living Through Uncertainty

Strata: The Consolations and Invitations of Deep Time

How to Hold on to the Light of the World