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How to Harness Your Existential Wanderlust

Albert Camus on Stubbornness and Creativity

The Relationship Between Comedy, Democracy, and AI

Marianne Moore on the Three Elements of Persuasive Writing

Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones

The Generosity of Selfishness: C.S. Lewis on How to Be Interesting

The Souls of Animals

No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on Loss and the Meaning of Life

The Founding Father of Neuroscience on Solitude, the Search for Truth, and the Ideal Environment for Breakthroughs

I Feel, Therefore I Am: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio the Consciousness of the Body

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

The Art of Advancing with Age: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life

Love in the Time of Dinosaurs

Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Moving Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” a Lifetime of Sorrow in the Making

The Art of Being Alone: May Sarton’s Stunning 1938 Ode to Solitude

Meteor of Joy: The Young People’s Chorus of New York City Sings Bird Divinations

Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

Music and the Body: Richard Powers on the Power of Song

Halloween’s Lost Heroes: Michael Pollan on Radical Gardening and the Insurgent Botanical Origin of the Broomstick in Flying-Witch Legends

Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World

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

What Is Your Refugium?

The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother

What It Takes to Be Free

Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being

Marcus Aurelius on the Good Luck of Your Bad Luck

Bob Dylan on the Unconscious Mind and the Ideal Conditions for Creative Work

Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life

20 Favorite Children’s Books from 20 Years of The Marginalian

The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds: Margaret Wise Brown’s Lost Masterpiece about Mortality and the Meaning of Life, Newly Illustrated

20 Favorite Books from 20 Years of The Marginalian

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Timeless Tenets of Critical Thinking

Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

How to Be Transformed When Things Fall Apart

The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet

Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

Nathaniel Hawthorne on How to Look and Really See

Introducing the Museum of Delight

How to Hold Your Heart with Golden Hands

Corrective for a Broken Heart

How to Be Un-Dead: Notes on Waking Up from the Trance of Near-Living

How to Grow Old without Letting Life Become a Parody of Itself

The Constitution of the Inner Country: Leonard Cohen on Language and the Poetry of Presence

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

Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

When Relationships Change: Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing the Intermittency and Mutability of Love

How to Unself in Order to Be Who You Really Are

20 Truths about Life from 20 Years of The Marginalian: A Ceramics and Lichen Raffle

Celebrating 20 Years of The Marginalian and the Search for Meaning: Free Livestream This Friday

Bloom: A Touching Animated Short Film about Depression and What It Takes to Recover the Light of Being