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  1. The sweet things beloved authors wrote about their pets in letters and journals

  2. A commemorative postage stamp celebrating Dante’s 750th birthday? Yes, please! (More than hypothetical, please.)

  3. T.S. Eliot reads the immeasurably delightful “The Naming of Cats” in a rare 1947 recording

  4. Chills. A teenage girl’s extraordinary letter to Mary Oliver about how a poem saved her life

  5. Ounce Dice Trice—marvelous children’s book celebrating the whimsy of words with imaginative names for everyday things

  6. “True adulthood… is a difficult beauty, an intensely hard won glory.” THIS

  7. The only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf's voice – her beautiful love letter to language

  8. "Prolonged stress—such as divorce, a hostile workplace…or the death of a loved one—can all trigger elements of PTSD.”

  9. A modern manifesto for fueling the internal engine of lifelong learning outside academia

  10. Fascinating look at what analyzing 30,000 books from the past 200 years reveals about our changing cultural values

  11. Every responsible media citizen should read "Everything I Know About Journalism in 395 Words” by NYT’s

  12. How to live with mystery in a culture obsessed with certainty—beautiful perspective by astrophysicist Marcelo Glaser

  13. Aldous Huxley on why true enlightenment requires a mind-body education

  14. A beautiful illustrated meditation on memory and its imperfections, inspired by Borges

  15. Mr. Tweed’s Good Deeds – unusual and lovely counting book about the power of small kindnesses

  16. Jane Goodall on science, religion, and our responsibility as human beings

  17. Thrilled for the long-awaited reopening of the next week!

  18. Midweek treat: Bowie narrates the pioneering Soviet children’s symphony "Peter and the Wolf”

  19. The strange psychology of cryptomnesia, the unconscious plagiarism of existing ideas

  20. Absolutely beautiful 19th-century illustrations of owls and ospreys

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