Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life

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An Interview with Susan Sontag (1975)

MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86

This Is the Oldest Amber Ever Found

The Machinery of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’

The 'Nuclear Nightmare' That Was Manufactured by the Media

The Rise and Fall of the Oxbridge Dons

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Nick Cave on the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness

Young J. G. Ballard and his family were imprisoned in a Japanese camp for a two and a half years — he called it the best time of his life

Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom

Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln

PEN America was founded in 1922 to protect free speech and defend writers. That creed has developed a blind spot

The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature

The Last of the Three Amigos

Salary Caps Are Holding U.S. Soccer Back

A Natural Aristocracy Among Men

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal