The Donkey and the Meaning of Life

Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

This 19th-Century Diary Written by an Enslaved Maryland Man Is a Crucial Record of His Life and Family History—and the Only One of Its Kind Found in the United States

How to Live a Miraculous Life

Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming Yourself Across the Sweep of Life

In 39 States, People Can Be Sentenced to Life for Murders They Did Not Commit

Psychedelics Might Not Have Evolved to Get Humans High

Trenchant but sententious, John Berger could sound like Platonov one moment, the next like Alain de Botton

Public Health Needs MAHA

In search of the northern cassowary

Freddy Cannon (1936 – 2026) Rock And Roller

G.K. Chesterton on the Dandelion and the Meaning of Life

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

Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

The Canadian poet Margaret Avison lived with such intense inwardness that Northrop Frye called her “a conscientious objector to life”

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

How Not to Waste Your Life

Life, Death, and Who We Are Online

A Forgotten Literary Window Into the Personal Life of Alan Turing

OpenAI says its AI model ‘went rogue’: What do we know?

How an Inbred Snake Invader Took Over an Island Paradise