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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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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 12

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Most recent posts

Grace Against Gravity and the Physics of Vulnerability: How Birds Fly and Why They Flock in a V Formation
“What we see from the air is so simple and beautiful,” Georgia O’Keeffe wrote after her first airplane flight, “I cannot help feeling that it would do something wonderful for the human race — rid …
On , by Maria Popova, 1,865 words
The Heroes Among Us: John Berger on the Courage to Create
“The powerful fear art, whatever its form… because it makes sense of what life’s brutalities cannot, a sense that unites us… becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring.” “What makes Heroic?” asked …
On , by Maria Popova, 921 words
Kafka on Friendship and the Art of Reconnection
Among the paradoxes of friendship is this: All friendships of depth and durability are based on a profound knowledge of each other, of the soul beneath the costume of personality — that lovely Celtic notion …
On , by Maria Popova, 958 words