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“Information is what our world runs on: the blood and the fuel, the vital principle,” James Gleick wrote in his […]

“A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry.”

“Women had always made a significant contribution to the development of human civilization, but these were consistently ignored, denied, or

“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating,” John Cleese proclaimed in his widely beloved 1991 lecture

One late February afternoon in 2013, as my then-partner and I were cooking dinner at home in New York, my

“We die. That may be the meaning of life,” Toni Morrison observed from the Stockholm stage upon becoming the first

Few things salve sanity better than the awareness that there are infinitely many kinds of beautiful lives, and few places

In the summer of 1948, Black Mountain College informed a class of students that the star architect whose class they

“No one is fated or doomed to love anyone,” the philosopher-poet Adrienne Rich wrote, “the accidents happen.” What is true