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The Marginalian

Marginalia on our search for meaning.

  • By Maria Popova
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly four posts per week
  • First post on

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Month starting Posts
Oct 2022 8
Nov 2022 22
Dec 2022 26
Jan 2023 22
Feb 2023 19
Mar 2023 21
Apr 2023 14
May 2023 19
Jun 2023 15
Jul 2023 16
Aug 2023 15
Sep 2023 16
Oct 2023 15
Nov 2023 17
Dec 2023 16
Jan 2024 13
Feb 2024 12
Mar 2024 11
Apr 2024 12
May 2024 14
Jun 2024 12
Jul 2024 12
Aug 2024 14
Sep 2024 15
Oct 2024 10
Nov 2024 8

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Most recent posts

The Managed Heart: Emotional Labor and the Psychological Cost of Ambivalence
What are you unwilling to feel? This is one of the most brutal, most clarifying questions in life, answering which requires great courage and great vulnerability. Out of that unwillingness arises the greatest inner tension …
On , by Maria Popova, 2,158 words
Louise Erdrich on the Deepest Meaning of Resistance
“Resist loss of the miraculous by lowering your standards for what constitutes a miracle. It is all a fucking miracle.” The best advice we have for anyone else is always advice to ourselves, honed on …
On , by Maria Popova, 783 words
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside: Doris Lessing on Redeeming Humanity
This is the history of the world: revolutionaries turning into tyrants, leaders who claim to stand with the masses turning the individuals within them on each other, stirring certainties and self-righteousness to distract from the …
On , by Maria Popova, 2,233 words