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The Moomin Strategy for Living with Uncertainty

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

In weird girl literature detached protagonists have bad jobs, slightly-happier best friends, and troubled relationships. Are the novels any good?

Turning To The Second Person

Paul Celan's childhood spanned seven languages and one vanishing world. His poetry created space to mourn and remember and survive 

Book publishing is awash in AI scandals. As one agent puts it, AI slop has gotten so bad it makes Fifty Shades of Grey look like Tolstoy

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

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