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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