Maria Popova
Reader. Writer. Bicycle-dependent. Author of "Figuring."
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Vanessa Redgrave Reads Joan Didion’s Harrowing ‘Blue Nights’
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“Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”
Maria Popova “Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.” On Joan Didion's birthday, Vanessa Redgrave reads from "Blue Nights" 2h
Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life
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“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its ta…
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Maria Popova Dostoyevsky, just after his death sentence was repealed at the executioner's stakes, on the meaning of life – absolutely stunning letter to his brother 6h
The Shortest Day: A Lyrical Illustrated Invitation to Presence with the Passage of Time, Our Ancient Relationship with the Sun, and the Cycles of Life
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A lovely homage to a universal human impulse radiating across time and space and cultures and civilizations.
Maria Popova "Rage, rage against the dying of the light," Dylan Thomas wrote. As we rage toward the #WinterSolstice, a rapturous illustrated celebration of the shortest day and its invitation to presence with the cycles of life and our ancient relationship with the Sun 25h
Maria Popova The Shortest Day – a lyrical illustrated invitation to presence with the passage of time, the cyclical seasonality of life, and our ancient relationship with the cosmos (with a side of Kepler) 34h
Maria Popova "Rage, rage against the dying of the light," Dylan Thomas wrote. As we rage toward the #WinterSolstice, a rapturous illustrated celebration of the shortest day and its invitation to presence with the cycles of life and our ancient relationship with the Sun 46h
How to Navigate the Complexities and Harness the Rewards of Workplace Friendships: Wisdom from Adam Smith and Aristotle
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“Is not mistaking relationships for what they are not — that is being blind to their ambiguity — arguably the greatest cause of disappointment and failure?”
Maria Popova On navigating the complexities and harnessing the rewards of workplace friendships – wisdom from Aristotle to Adam Smith and beyond 51h
A Very Meow Meow Holiday Show
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Post-post-modern diva Meow Meow brings glitter and satire to the holiday season.
Maria Popova My brilliant friend (maker of the jumpsuits that are now my uniform) designed the stage and costume magic amplifying the performance magic of . If you're in NYC next week, race over to for your fill of unusual whimsy 3d
The Art of Losing
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In 1970 Robert Lowell was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and Elizabeth Hardwick was at home in New York with their thirteen-year-old daughter, Harriet. Hardwick felt overwhelmed trying to manage the family’s affairs. “Cal,” she...
Maria Popova "A letter passes between people, like a gift. To whom does it—to whom should it—belong, the letter-writer or the addressee? " I think about this all. the. time. given what I do (especially now, immersed in Mary Shelley's scattered letters) HT 3d
Alain de Botton on existential maturity and what emotional intelligence really means; Debbie Millman's lovely letter to kids about how books solace us
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Maria Popova Weekly highlights: on existential maturity and what emotional intelligence really means, 's lovely letter to children about how books save us, a mid-century French artist's stunning scientific diagrams of the natural world 4d
The Book of Delights: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness
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“The more you study delight, the more delight there is to study… I felt my life to be more full of delight. Not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss. But more full of delight.”
Maria Popova “The more you study delight, the more delight there is to study… I felt my life to be more full of delight. Not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss. But more full of delight.” Poet and gardener Ross Gay's yearlong experiment in willful gladness: 3d
Maria Popova The Book of Delights – poet and gardener Ross Gay's wondrous yearlong experiment in developing the muscle for delight in world that so readily gives us reasons for despair 3d
Maria Popova “The more you study delight, the more delight there is to study… I felt my life to be more full of delight. Not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss. But more full of delight.” Poet and gardener Ross Gay's yearlong experiment in willful gladness 4d
James Baldwin – Brain Pickings
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Maria Popova “It has always been much easier (because it has always seemed much safer) to give a name to the evil without than to locate the terror within.” Remembering Baldwin, who died on this day in 1987, with his timeless, ever-timely wisdom 4d
What to Give: Children’s Books
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Meghan Cox Gurdon on comic-book compendiums and hidden wonders of the world.
Maria Popova's Store
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Shop Maria Popova's Society6 store featuring unique designs on various products across art prints, tech accessories, apparels, and home decor goods. Worldwide shipping available.
Maria Popova Looking for lovely, unusual, gladdening gifts? Try this selection of beautiful prints, ranging from children's book illustration to vintage scientific diagrams, most of them benefiting various art, science, conservation, and literacy nonprofits 5d
French Artist Paul Sougy’s Stunning Mid-Century Scientific Illustrations of Plants, Animals, and the Human Body
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A diagrammatic serenade to nature in primary colors.
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Maria Popova French artist Paul Sougy's stunning mid-century scientific diagrams of plants, animals, and the human body 4d
Maria Popova French artist Paul Sougy's stunning mid-century scientific diagrams of plants, animals, and the human body – a primary-color diagrammatic serenade to this glorious living world: bats, butterflies, sea urchins; pines, ferns, moss; brain, eye, heart 5d
Maria Popova French artist Paul Sougy's stunning mid-century scientific diagrams of plants, animals, and the human body 6d
Debbie Millman’s Touching Letter to Children About How Books Solace Our Heartbreak and Salve Our Existential Loneliness
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“Books — like dogs — are among a handful of things on this planet that just want to be loved. And they will love you back, generously and selflessly, requiring very little in return.”…
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Maria Popova “Books — like dogs — are among a handful of things on this planet that just want to be loved. And they will love you back, generously and selflessly, requiring very little in return.” This is lovely 6d
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Maria Popova Things to be thankful for: Books, dogs, and 's touching letter to children about how books solace our heartbreak and salve our existential loneliness: #Thanksgiving 7d
Architecture & Anthropocene podcast | Triennale Milano
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The XXII International Exhibition of La Triennale di Milano, tiled Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, will take place from March 1st to September 1st, 2019
Maria Popova Wonderful new podcast companion to 's #BrokenNature masterpiece – conversations about the constructive (and destructive) interleaving of design, architecture, nature, and technology in the Anthropocene 9d
The Mushroom Hunters: Neil Gaiman’s Subversive Feminist Celebration of Science and the Human Hunger for Truth, in a Gorgeous Animated Short Film
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A lyrical journey into the history of our species as the sensemaking animal who hungers for knowledge and advances by love.
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Maria Popova 2.5 years ago, composed a gorgeous poem for #UniverseInVerse – a subversive feminist celebration of science, tracing our history as a species who hungers for knowledge and advances by love. Now, it has been turned into a gorgeous animated film 9d
Alain de Botton on Existential Maturity and What Emotional Intelligence Really Means
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“The emotionally intelligent person knows that they will only ever be mentally healthy in a few areas and at certain moments, but is committed to fathoming their inadequacies and warning othe…
Maria Popova “The emotionally intelligent person knows that they will only ever be mentally healthy in a few areas and at certain moments, but is committed to fathoming their inadequacies and warning others of them in good time, with apology and charm.” Well, this 4d
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Maria Popova "The emotionally intelligent person knows that love is a skill, not a feeling, and will require trust, vulnerability, generosity, humor, sexual understanding, and selective resignation." Weekend reflection for self-refinement 5d
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Maria Popova "The emotionally intelligent person knows that love is a skill, not a feeling, and will require trust, vulnerability, generosity, humor, sexual understanding, and selective resignation." Excellent perspective on emotional maturity 9d
After 150 years, Vienna opera house stages first opera by a woman
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Olga Neuwirth’s adaption of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando deals with duality and trans identity
Maria Popova Ooh! Australian composer Olga Neuwirth is turning Virginia Woolf's Orlando – the original trans novel – into an opera Couple with the real-life love story that inspired Woolf's masterpiece (HT ) 11d
Kahlil Gibran on silence, solitude, and the courage to know yourself; Wendell Berry on delight as a force of resistance to consumerism and hardship
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Maria Popova Weekly highlights: Kahlil Gibran on silence, solitude, and the courage to know yourself; Wendell Berry on delight as a force of resistance to consumerism and hardship; an illustrated celebration of the many meanings and hidden everyday sources of happiness 11d
89 Clouds: A Poetic Celebration of Clouds and Everything They Mean
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“Clouds are thoughts without words…”
Maria Popova “Clouds are thoughts without words…” A lyrical illustrated celebration of clouds from poet Mark Strand and painter Wendy Mark 12d
In Our Time - Crime and Punishment - BBC Sounds
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dostoevsky's novel. The hero thinks he's above the law....
Maria Popova Wonderful episode about "Crime and Punishment" Really gives a sense of the strife and terror Dostoyevsky lived through, makes all the more admirable his rationale for why there are no bad people 12d