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The most important thing to remember about your mother themarginalian.org/2023/01/1…
The moving letter James Baldwin received from his childhood teacher and the peak of his fame and his heartbreak themarginalian.org/2026/08/2…
Shortly after he became the second-youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize, Albert Camus sent his childhood teacher this moving letter: themarginalian.org/2014/11/1…
“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…”
Whitman's timeless advice for living a vibrant and rewarding life themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
Hermann Hesse on solitude, the courage to be yourself, and how to find your destiny themarginalian.org/2019/01/1…
What it takes to be free themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
20 favorite children's books from 20 years of The Marginalian themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
On Sylvia Plath's birthday, Patti Smith reads her haunting portrait of depression themarginalian.org/2023/09/0…
“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
The story behind one of the greatest poems ever written, and a rare recording of Dylan Thomas (born on this day in 1914) reading it: themarginalian.org/2024/01/1…
Sylvia Plath, who would have been 92 today, on living with the darkness and making art out of the barely bearable lightness of being themarginalian.org/2021/05/1…
Marcus Aurelius on the good luck of your bad luck – the Stoic strategy for turning suffering into strength themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
Meryl Streep reads "Morning Song" by Sylvia Plath, who would have been 94 today themarginalian.org/2018/04/0…
“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
The story behind one of the greatest poems ever written, and a rare recording of Dylan Thomas (born on this day in 1914) reading it themarginalian.org/2024/01/1…
20 favorite books from 20 years of The Marginalian themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: themarginalian.org/2019/06/1…
Sundogs and the sacred geometry of wonder – the fascinating science of the phenomenon that inspired Hilma af Klint, born on this day in 1862 themarginalian.org/2023/05/1…
"When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment."
On this day in 1963, JFK delivered one of the greatest (and truest) speeches of all time themarginalian.org/2015/05/0…
Tchaikovsky on depression and finding beauty amid the wreckage of the soul themarginalian.org/2015/11/1…
Oliver Sacks on the 3 essential elements of creativity themarginalian.org/2017/11/0…
Bob Dylan on the unconscious mind and the ideal conditions for creative work themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
