Hermann Hesse on Reading and the Heart of Wisdom – The Marginalian
Books show us what it is like to be another and at the same time return us to ourselves. We […]
Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life – The Marginalian
We are each born with a wilderness of possibility within us. Who we become depends on how we tend to
The Best of The Marginalian 2023 – The Marginalian
By Maria Popova Hindsight is our finest instrument for discerning the patterns of our lives. To look back on a
An Illustrated Love Letter to Deep Time and Earth’s Memory – The Marginalian
We are denizens of an enormous pebble drifting through the cosmic ocean of pure spacetime — a planet made a
Adam Gopnik on Darwin’s Brilliant Strategy for Preempting Criticism and the True Mark of Genius – The Marginalian
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into
John O’Donohue on Beginnings – The Marginalian
There are moments in life when we are reminded that we are unfinished, that the story we have been telling