“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found…
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An Illustrated Fictional Day in the Real Lives of Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein
Parisian misadventures in multitasking drawn from one of history’s great loves. One September afternoon in her thirtieth year, during her…
De Profundis: Patti Smith Reads Oscar Wilde’s Stirring Letter on Suffering and Transcendence, Penned in Prison
“I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me… There is not a single degradation…
Keats on the Three Layers of Reality and What Gives Meaning to Human Existence
http://ift.tt/2eMzJEy “Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.” “Reality is what we take…
The second sage
http://ift.tt/2eLAqxX A man is hiking in the countryside when he suddenly sees a toddler about to fall into an abandoned…
5 Things You Didn't Know about H. G. Wells
http://ift.tt/2d2c42G H. G. Wells is one of the most influential science fiction writers in history. In this Nature Video, we…
Literature in Castro’s Cuba
http://ift.tt/2a32fNM Lockwood on the baseball field with Castro, 1964. © 2016 Lee Lockwood/TASCHEN. Late in 1959, the photojournalist Lee Lockwood…
Why is the Iranian government opening the world’s biggest bookstore?
http://ift.tt/29WGrDh At the Tehran Book Fair. Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency/Getty There is a conundrum facing Iranian officials. The government,…
This writer tried to live as an otter, a fox, and a deer. Here’s what he learned.
Being a Beast is one of the oddest and most beautiful books I’ve read this summer. It’s by Charles Foster,…