George Saunders on Storytelling the World’s Fate and the Antidote to Media Manipulation – The Marginalian
“All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up,” John Steinbeck […]
Stunning Illustrations of Flowers Inspired by Erasmus Darwin’s Radical Scientific Poem About the Sexual Reproduction of Plants – The Marginalian
A century before Emily Dickinson wrote that “to be a Flower is profound Responsibility,” Erasmus Darwin (December 12, 1731–18 April
Hermann Hesse on the Dual Life of the Creative Spirit – The Marginalian
Coursing through every civilization are the myths that shape what its people come to believe about reality and possibility. Some
Poet Mark Doty on the Passionate Fragility of Our Attachments – The Marginalian
How beautiful and unbearable that only one of each exists — each lover, each child, each dog; that this particular
The Science, Poetry, and Wonder of the Bowerbird – The Marginalian
For all the enchantment the color blue has cast upon humanity, no animal has fallen under its spell more hopelessly
The Best Science Books of 2015 – The Marginalian
“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time,” E.B. White observed in a wonderful 1969 interview. “You
What It Takes to Design a Good Life – The Marginalian
What does it take to have a good life? That’s what Jonathan Fields, author of Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt
Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska’s Poem “Love at First Sight,” Illustrated – The Marginalian
Some of us call it chance; those less at peace with the randomness that governs the universe may call it
William Stafford’s Poetic Calibration of Perspective – The Marginalian
When a recent bout of illness sent me sulking with indignant disappointment at the ruin of long laid plans, I