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2019

1. Relationship Lessons from Trees
2. Beginnings at the End of Love: Rebecca West’s Extraordinary Love Letter to H.G. Wells in the Wake of Heartbreak
3. Patti Smith’s Imaginative Remedy for Insomnia
4. Bertrand Russell on How to Heal an Ailing and Divided World
5. Nature’s Lessons in Gender Equality, Gender Diversity, and True Love: The Male Pregnancy of the Seahorse and the Fearless Trans Fish of the Coral Seas
6. Edward Weston on the Most Fruitful Attitude Toward Life, Art, and Other People
7. Abraham Lincoln on Equality and the Slippery Slope of Exclusion
8. Roar Like a Dandelion: Beloved Children’s Book Author and Poet Ruth Krauss’s Lost Alphabet of Joy, Illustrated
9. Losing the Birds, Finding the Words: Eve Ensler’s Extraordinary Letter of Apology to Mother Earth
10. Engraving Is Eternal Work: How to Dodge a Deadline Like William Blake
11. In Transit: Neil Gaiman Reads His Touching Tribute to the Lonely Genius Arthur Eddington, Who Confirmed Einstein’s Relativity
12. 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
13. The Weighing
14. Ursula K. Le Guin’s Playful and Profound Letter-Poem to Children About the Power of Books and Why We Read
15. The Shape of Music: Maurice Sendak’s Insightful Forgotten Meditation on Fantasy, Feeling, and the Key to Great Storytelling
16. An Occasion for Unselfing: Iris Murdoch on Imperfection as Integral to Goodness and How the Beauty of Nature and Art Leavens Our Most Unselfish Impulses
17. Every Atom Belonging to Me as Good Belongs to You: Whitman’s Immortal Words, Illustrated in Stunning Cyanotype
18. How to Disappear: The Art of Listening to Silence in a Noisy World
19. Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Rare, Arresting Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Stories by the Irish Stained Glass and Book Artist Harry Clarke
20. The Universe in Verse: Bill T. Jones Performs Poet Ross Gay’s Ode to Our Highest Human Potentialities
21. Lorraine Hansberry on Depression and Its Most Reliable Antidote
22. Autumn Light: Pico Iyer on Finding Beauty in Impermanence and Luminosity in Loss
23. The Stunning Astronomical Beadwork of Native Artist Margaret Nazon
24. Kevin Kelly’s Letter to Children About the Glory of Books and the Superpower of Reading in an Image-Based Digital Culture
25. What Miss Mitchell Saw: An Illustrated Celebration of How 19th-Century Astronomer Maria Mitchell Blazed the Way for Women in Science
26. Year of the Monkey: Patti Smith on Dreams, Loss, Love, and Mending the Broken Realities of Life
27. The Great Czech Playwright Turned Dissident Turned President Václav Havel on Hope
28. Shelley on Poetry and the Art of Seeing
29. Amanda Palmer Reads “When I Am Among the Trees” by Mary Oliver
30. An Illustrated Ode to Attentiveness and the Art of Listening as a Wellspring of Self-Understanding, Empathy for Others, and Reverence for the Loveliness of Life
31. Uncommon Wisdom from a Forgotten Genius: Olga Jacoby’s Extraordinary Letters on Love, Life, Death, Moral Courage, and Spiritual Purpose Without Religion
32. A Pioneering Case for the Value of Citizen Science from the Polymathic Astronomer John Herschel
33. On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil Gibran
34. Chaos, Time, and the Origin of Everything: Stephen Fry on How Ancient Greek Mythology and Modern Science Meet to Illuminate the Cradle of Being
35. The First Surviving Photograph of the Moon: John Adams Whipple and How the Birth of Astrophotography Married Immortality and Impermanence
36. Does Your Dog Really Love You and What Does That Really Mean? A Journey in Cognitive Science and Moral Philosophy
37. Through the First Antarctic Night: A Poetic Tribute and Testament to the Human Spirit from a Pioneering Polar Explorer
38. I Like You: An Almost Unbearably Lovely Vintage Illustrated Ode to Friendship
39. Ancestor Worship with Mother Nature: How Indigenous Death Rituals Illuminate the Web of Life
40. Art, Atheism, and the Freedom of Expression: Frida Kahlo’s Searing Protest Letter to the President of Mexico
41. Advice to a Daughter from Pioneering Political Philosopher and Feminism Founding Mother Mary Wollstonecraft
42. How to Find Your Artistic Voice: Ben Folds on Empathy, Creativity, and the Courage to Know Yourself
43. How Nature Works, in Stunning Psychedelic Illustrations of Scientific Processes and Phenomena from a 19th-Century French Physics Textbook
44. 20-Year-Old Lord Byron’s Moving Elegy for His Beloved Dog
45. Against the Slippery Slope of Injustice: Amanda Palmer Reads Wendell Berry’s Stunningly Prescient Poem “Questionnaire”
46. Viktor Frankl on Humor as a Lifeline to Sanity and Survival
47. Underland: An Enchanting Journey into the Hidden Universe Beneath Our Feet
48. Eating the Sun: A Lovely Illustrated Celebration of Wonder, the Science of How the Universe Works, and the Existential Mystery of Being Human
49. How to Punctuate with Style: Lewis Thomas’s Charming Meditation on the Subtleties of Language
50. Trees at Night: Stunning Rorschach Silhouettes from the 1920s
51. Faster Than Light: Marilyn Nelson Reads Her Exquisite Poem About the Purpose of Life and How Our Impermanence Both Frustrates and Fuels Our Creative Drive
52. Nellie Bly Makes the News: An Animated Documentary About the Investigative Journalism Pioneer Who Paved the Way for Women in Media
53. Borders and Belonging: Toni Morrison’s Prescient Wisdom on the Refugee Struggle, the Violence of Otherness, and the Meaning of Home
54. The Antidote to Prejudice: Walter Lippmann on Overriding the Mind’s Propensity for Preconceptions
55. Trailblazing 19th-Century Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Social Change and the Life of the Mind
56. Meditations on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp: Polish Painter Józef Czapski on Literature, Survival, and the Human Soul
57. The Lioness in the Tall Grass: Farmer and Poet Laura Brown-Lavoie’s Extraordinary Letter to Children About the Power of Storytelling
58. Relationship Happiness and Your DNA: How One Gene Encodes Emotional Sensitivity
59. What If: An Illustrated Celebration of the Utopian Imagination and the Will to Change the World
60. Poetic Symbology of the Heroine’s Journey: Artist Nancy Castille’s Stunning Homage to the Sumerian Proto-Feminist Goddess Inanna
61. Lorraine Hansberry, the Love of Freedom, and the Freedom of Love
62. Altered States of Consciousness: The Neuropsychology of How Time Perception Modulates Our Experience of Self, from Depression to Boredom to Creative Flow
63. Do You See What I See? A Poetic Vintage Art-Science Primer on the Building Blocks of the Perceptual World
64. Leo Tolstoy on Kindness and the Measure of Love
65. Is There a God? Stephen Hawking Gives the Definitive Answer to the Eternal Question
66. A Fuller Picture of Human Personality: Iris Murdoch on How Art Helps Us Reimagine Freedom, Moral Life, and Our Inner Worlds
67. The Universe in Verse: Cosmologist and Saxophonist Stephon Alexander Reads “Explaining Relativity” by Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson
68. Visionary Maps of Time, Space, and Thought by America’s First Female Cartographer and Information Visualization Designer
69. Middle Age and the Art of Self-Renewal: An Extraordinary Letter from Pioneering Education Reformer Elizabeth Peabody
70. The Fascinating Science of How Trees Communicate, Animated
71. Ecologist and Philosopher David Abram on the Language of Nature and the Secret Wisdom of the More-Than-Human World
72. Borderless Lullabies: Musicians and Authors in Defense of Refugee Children
73. Keats on the Measure of Compassion
74. A Day in the Life of the Jungle: A Poetic Vintage Illustrated Ode to the Wilderness and the Glorious Diversity of Life on Earth
75. Thomas Bernhard on Walking, Thinking, and the Paradox of Self-Reflection
76. The Great 19th-Century Biologist and Anatomist Thomas Huxley on Darwin’s Legacy and What Makes Us Human
77. How to Get Back Up and Keep Running: Amanda Palmer on Making Art When Life Unmakes You
78. Langston Hughes’s Ardent Public Fan Letter to the Young Nina Simone
79. Kahlil Gibran on Friendship and the Building Blocks of Meaningful Connection
80. The Lost Words: An Illustrated Dictionary of Poetic Spells Reclaiming the Language of Nature
81. Relativity, the Absolute, the Human Search for Truth: Nobel Laureate and Quantum Theory Originator Max Planck on Science and Mystery
82. How John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor’s Pioneering Intimate Partnership of Equals Shaped the Building Blocks of Social Equality and Liberty for the Modern World
83. Keats on Depression and the Mightiest Consolation for a Heavy Heart
84. Alexander Chee’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Books Save Us
85. William Godwin’s Stunning 1794 Advice to a Young Activist on How to Confront the Status Quo with Self-Possession, Dignity, and Persuasive Conviction
86. The Conflicted Love Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller: How an Intense Unclassifiable Relationship Shaped the History of Modern Thought
87. Robinson Jeffers on Moral Beauty, the Interconnectedness of the Universe, and the Key to Peace of Mind
88. The Everlasting Self: U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith’s Soulful Meditation on the Looping, Haunting Mystery of Being
89. Planting Trees as Resistance and Empowerment: The Remarkable Illustrated Story of Wangari Maathai, the First African Woman to Win the Nobel Peace Prize
90. Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman
91. 101-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Helen Fagin Reads Walt Whitman
92. “Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Losing a Friend
93. My Heart: An Emotional Intelligence Primer in the Form of an Uncommonly Tender Illustrated Poem About Our Capacity for Love
94. May 29, 1919: The Animated Story of How Eddington’s Historic Eclipse Expedition Confirmed Relativity, Catapulted Einstein into Celebrity, and United Humanity
95. The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
96. Trailblazing Writer and Feminist Margaret Fuller on the Social Value of Intellectual Labor and Why Artists Ought to Be Paid
97. Why We Walk: A Manifesto for Peripatetic Empowerment
98. Marcus Aurelius on Embracing Mortality and the Key to Living with Presence
99. Toni Morrison on the Power of Art and the Writer’s Singular Service to Humanity
100. Shelley’s Prescient Case for Animal Rights and the Spiritual Value of Vegetarianism
101. Rebecca Solnit on Love, Purposeful Work, and the Meaning of Liberty: An Empowered Retelling of Cinderella
102. “Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Love, Mortality, and Night as an Existential Clarifying Force for the Deepest Truths of the Heart
103. Reading for Life: Polish Poet Aleksander Wat on How Books Helped Him Survive in a Soviet Prison
104. Lost Radio Talks from the Harvard Observatory: Cecilia Payne, Who Discovered the Chemical Fingerprint of the Universe, on the Science of Stars and the Muse of All Great Scientists
105. Robert Browning on Artistic Integrity, Withstanding Criticism, and the Courage to Create Rather Than Cater
106. Moon: A Peek-Through Picture-Book About the Most Beloved Fixture of the Night Sky
107. Moral Wisdom in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener’s Prophetic Admonition About Technology and Ethics
108. Virginia Woolf on Being Ill and the Strange Transcendence Accessible Amid the Terrors of the Ailing Body
109. Visionary Photographer Edward Weston on the Importance of Cross-Disciplinary Curiosity in Creative Work
110. The Universe in Verse: Regina Spektor Reads “Theories of Everything” by Astronomer, Poet, and Tragic Genius Rebecca Elson
111. Amanda Palmer’s Haunting Reading of Adrienne Rich’s Poem About Love, Perspective, and the Hubble Space Telescope
112. Oliver Sacks on Libraries
113. John Steinbeck’s Stunning, Sobering, Buoyant Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
114. The Complementarity of Multiple Loves: The Victorian Philosopher Edward Carpenter on How Freedom Strengthens Togetherness in Long-Term Relationships
115. Spring with Emily Dickinson
116. Zadie Smith Reads Frank O’Hara’s Love Poem to Time via an Old-Fashioned Telephone Line
117. Rachel Carson’s Bittersweet Farewell to the World: Timeless Advice to the Next Generations from the Woman Who Catalyzed the Environmental Movement
118. A Stoic’s Key to Living with Presence: Seneca on Balancing the Existential Calculus of Time Spent, Saved, and Wasted
119. Jacqueline Woodson’s Lovely Letter to Children About Kindness, Presence, and How Books Transform Us
120. How Eleanor Roosevelt Revolutionized Politics
121. Cosmic Consciousness: Maurice Bucke’s Pioneering 19th-Century Theory of Transcendence and the Six Steps of Illumination
122. Killed by Kindness: Virginia Woolf, the Art of Letters, the Birth and Death of Photography, and the Fate of Every Technology
123. The Universe in Verse 2018: Full Show
124. The Power of Antagonistic Cooperation: Albert Murray on Heroism and How Storytelling Redeems Our Broken Cultural Mythology
125. Arthur Rackham’s Stunning 1926 Illustrations for “The Tempest”
126. Love, Pain, and Growth: The Forgotten Philosopher, Poet, and Pioneering LGBT Rights Activist Edward Carpenter on How to Survive the Agony of Falling in Love
127. Alain de Botton’s Lovely Letter to Children About Why We Read
128. The Jazz of Physics: Cosmologist and Saxophonist Stephon Alexander on Decoding the Song of the Universe
129. The Coming Victory of Democracy: Thomas Mann on Justice, Human Dignity, and the Need to Continually Renew Our Ideals
130. Lincoln on How to Handle Criticism
131. Advice on Writing from Emily Dickinson’s Editor
132. Crescendo: A Watercolor Ode to the Science, Strangeness, and Splendor of Pregnancy
133. Astrophysicist and Author Janna Levin Reads “Berryman” by W.S. Merwin: Some of the Finest and Most Soul-Salving Advice on How to Stay Sane as an Artist
134. Nobel-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli on Science, Spirit, and Our Search for Meaning
135. These Truths: Jill Lepore on How the Shift from Mythology to Science Shaped the Early Dream of Democracy
136. Art and the Nocturnal Imagination: Painter, Poet, and Philosopher Etel Adnan on Dreaming and Creativity
137. Trailblazing 18th-Century Artist Sarah Stone’s Stunning Natural History Paintings of Exotic, Endangered, and Extinct Species
138. Over the Rooftops, Under the Moon: A Lyrical Illustrated Meditation on Loneliness, Otherness, and the Joy of Finding One’s Community
139. The Source of Self-Regard: Toni Morrison on Wisdom in the Age of Information
140. Anne Gilchrist’s Beautiful and Heartbreaking Love Letters to Walt Whitman
141. Harriet Hosmer on Art and Ambition: The World’s First Successful Woman Sculptor on What It Takes to Be a Great Artist
142. Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Art as the Crucible of Progress and the Dangerous Cult of Blind Innovation, with Rare Woodcuts by Artist Elfriede Abbe
143. 15-Year-Old Susan Sontag on the Explosive Elasticity of the Self
144. The Devil Teaches Thermodynamics: Sean Ono Lennon Reads Nobel-Winning Chemist and Poet Roald Hoffmann’s Ode to Entropy
145. Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss
146. Thoreau on the Long Cycles of Social Change and the Importance of Not Mistaking Politics for Progress
147. Romanian Philosopher Emil Cioran on the Courage to Disillusion Yourself
148. The Year of the Whale: A Lyrical Illustrated Serenade to Our Planet’s Largest-Brained Creature
149. Emblem of My Work: Artists Reimagine Laurence Sterne’s Iconic Marbled Page
150. Herman Melville’s Passionate, Beautiful, Heartbreaking Love Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne
151. Otherness, Belonging, and the Web of Life: The Great Nature Writer Henry Beston on Our Fellow Creatures and the Dignity of Difference
152. Rachel Carson’s Birdsong Notation, Set to Music
153. After Silence: Amanda Palmer Reads Neil Gaiman’s Stunning Poem Celebrating Rachel Carson’s Legacy of Culture-Shifting Courage
154. Salvation by Words: Iris Murdoch on Language as a Vehicle of Truth and Art as a Force of Resistance to Tyranny
155. Anatomy of Deception and Self-Delusion: Walter Lippmann on Public Opinion, Our Slippery Grasp of Truth, and the Discipline of Apprehending Reality Clearly
156. You Can’t Have It All
157. Journey to Mount Tamalpais: Lebanese-American Poet, Painter, and Philosopher Etel Adnan on Time, Self, Impermanence, and Transcendence
158. The Great Naturalist John Burroughs on Art, the Courage to Defy Convention, and the Measure of a Visionary
159. French Philosopher Maurice Blanchot on Writing, the Dual Power of Language to Reveal and Conceal, and What It Really Means to See
160. The More Loving One: Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads W.H. Auden’s Sublime Ode to Our Unrequited Love for the Universe
161. Jane Goodall’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Reading Shaped Her Life
162. In Search of the Canary Tree: What a Disappearing Ancient Forest Can Teach Us About Resilience and Grace in a Changing World
163. Music, Feeling, and Transcendence: Nick Cave on AI, Awe, and the Splendor of Our Human Limitations
164. Stunning 19th-Century French Natural History Illustrations of Beetles
165. The Influence of Physical Causes Upon the Moral Faculty: How Founding Father Benjamin Rush Revolutionized Our Understanding of Mental Health
166. Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Love and Resisting the Tyranny of Relationship Labels
167. How to Rewire Your Broken Behavioral Patterns: Shakespeare’s Advice on Acquiring Better Habits
168. Being Against Becoming: Susan Sontag on Our Ambivalent Historical Conscience
169. Hermann Hesse on Solitude, the Value of Hardship, the Courage to Be Yourself, and How to Find Your Destiny
170. “Dracula” Author Bram Stoker’s Extraordinary Love Letter to Walt Whitman
171. The Astronomical Art of Maria Clara Eimmart: Stunning 17th-Century Drawings of Comets, Planets, and Moon Phases by a Self-Taught Artist and Astronomer
172. Mary Oliver’s Advice on Writing
173. Neil Gaiman Reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s Ode to Timelessness to His 100-Year-Old Cousin
174. Rebecca Solnit’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Books Solace, Empower, and Transform Us
175. How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Confidence: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Self-Esteem
176. The Art-Science of Taking Perspective

2018

1. The Best of Brain Pickings 2018
2. Favorite Books of 2018
3. The Eternal Return: Nietzsche’s Brilliant Thought Experiment Illustrating the Key to Existential Contentment
4. In Praise of Idleness: Bertrand Russell on the Relationship Between Leisure and Social Justice
5. Freedom and Creative Vitality in a Market Society: Ursula K. Le Guin on Saving Books from Profiteering and Commodification
6. The Loveliest Children’s Books of 2018
7. A 100-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor on How Books Save Lives
8. An Illustrated Celebration of the Rebels, Visionaries, and Fiercely Courageous World-Changers Who Won Women Political Power
9. The Fish in the Stone: Zoë Keating Reads Rita Dove’s Ode to Deep Time
10. The Art of Waiting: Reclaiming the Pleasures of Durational Being in an Instant Culture of Ceaseless Doing
11. Hermann Hesse on Hope, the Difficult Art of Taking Responsibility, and the Wisdom of the Inner Voice
12. Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert
13. The Original Manifesto for Information Visualization and Pictorial Statistics: ISOTYPE Creator Otto Neurath’s Pioneering 1930 Visual Language
14. Against Self-Righteousness: Anne Lamott on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Relationship Between Brokenness and Joy
15. Against Common Sense: Vladimir Nabokov on the Wellspring of Wonder and Why the Belief in Goodness Is a Moral Obligation
16. An Illustrated Celebration of How Books Touch and Transform Us
17. The Psychology of Code-Breaking: 100-Year-Old Insight from Cryptography Pioneers William and Elizebeth Friedman
18. Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain
19. Patti Smith Sings “The Tyger” and Reflects on William Blake’s Transcendent Legacy as a Guiding Sun in the Cosmos of Creativity
20. Incubation, Ideation, and the Art of Editing: Beethoven on Creativity
21. Stranger in the Village: James Baldwin’s Prophetic Insight into Race and Reality, with a Shimmering Introduction by Gwendolyn Brooks
22. George Sand’s Only Children’s Book: A Touching Parable of Choosing Kindness and Generosity Over Cynicism and Greed, with Stunning Illustrations by Russian Artist Gennady Spirin
23. A Velocity of Being: Illustrated Letters to Children about Why We Read by 121 of the Most Inspiring Humans in Our World
24. Georgia O’Keeffe on the Art of Seeing
25. How to Make Difficult Decisions: Benjamin Franklin’s Pioneering Pros and Cons Framework
26. Wordsworth on Genius and the Creative Responsibility of Elevating Taste
27. Dawn: A Vintage Watercolor Serenade to the World Becoming Conscious of Itself
28. The Puzzle We Call Being: Walt Whitman on Listening to the Song of Existence, Animated
29. Perspective in the Age of Opinion: Timely Wisdom from a Century Ago
30. Margaret Fuller on What Makes a Great Leader: Timeless Political Wisdom from the Founding Mother of American Feminism
31. Elizabeth Gilbert Reads “The Early Hours” by Adam Zagajewski
32. How to Be a Good Creature: Naturalist Sy Montgomery on What 13 Animals Taught Her About Otherness, Love, and the Heart of Our Humanity
33. Meeting Virginia Woolf
34. Figuring
35. Truth, Justice, and Public Good: Simone Weil on Political Manipulation, the Dangers of “For” and “Against,” and How to Save Thinking from Opinion
36. How a Jellyfish and a Sea Slug Illuminate the Mystery of the Self
37. Door: A Tender Illustrated Allegory of Self-Discovery and the Capacity for Joy
38. ‘Frankenstein’ Author Mary Shelley on Nature and the Meaning of Happiness
39. Elizabeth Gilbert on Love, Loss, and How to Move Through Grief as Grief Moves Through You
40. Anne Lamott on Love, Despair, and Our Capacity for Change
41. Rebecca Solnit on Rewriting the World’s Broken Stories and the Paradigm-Shifting Power of Calling Things by Their True Names
42. An Illustrated Field Guide to the Art, Science, and Joy of Tea
43. The Dalai Lama on Science and Spirituality
44. The Mesmerizing Microscopy of Trees: Otherworldly Images Revealing the Cellular Structure of Wood Specimens
45. A Stunning Illustrated Celebration of the Wilderness and the Human Role in Nature Not as Conqueror but as Humble Witness
46. The Original Marriage of Equals: The Love Letters of Feminism Founding Mother Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Philosopher William Godwin
47. Ursula K. Le Guin on Time, the Meaning of Loyalty, and Why Honoring the Continuity of Past and Future Is the Root of Acting Responsibly
48. Borges on Turning Trauma, Misfortune, and Humiliation into Raw Material for Art
49. Pioneering Conservationist Mardy Murie on Nature, Human Nature, and the Wealth of the Wilderness
50. Loving vs. Being in Love: Jane Welsh Carlyle on Navigating the Heart’s Contradictions
51. The Scientific Poetics of Affection: Lewis Thomas on Altruism and Why We Are Wired for Friendship
52. Anton Chekhov’s 6 Rules for a Great Story
53. Little Man, Little Man: James Baldwin’s Only Children’s Book, Celebrating the Art of Seeing and Black Children’s Self-Esteem
54. How to Break Up with Integrity: Rilke on Unwounding Separation and the Difficult Art of Recalibrating Broken Relationships
55. Presto & Zesto in Limboland: A Lovely and Unusual “New” Maurice Sendak Book Elegizing a Lost Friendship
56. Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on the Malady of “Content” and How to Save Creative Culture from the Syphoning of Substance
57. Physicist Alan Lightman on the Illusion of Absolute Rest
58. An Antidote to White Male Capitalist Culture: Adrienne Rich on the Liberating Power of Storytelling and How Reading Emancipates
59. Beasts of India: Stunning Illustrations of Indigenous Animals Depicted in Various Tribal Art Traditions
60. We Grow Accustomed to the Dark: Emily Dickinson’s Stunning Ode to Resilience, Animated
61. The Only Story in the World: John Steinbeck on Kindness, Good and Evil, the Wellspring of Good Writing
62. Japanese Artist Ryota Kajita’s Otherworldly Photographs of Ice Formation in Alaska
63. Toni Morrison on the Deepest Meaning of Freedom
64. Walt Whitman on Creativity
65. Consider the Tree: Philosopher Martin Buber on the Discipline of Not Objectifying and the Difficult Art of Seeing Others as They Are, Not as They Are to Us
66. Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876
67. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: The Untold Story of Cryptography Pioneer Elizebeth Friedman
68. Jeanette Winterson’s 10 Tips on Writing
69. What We Imagine Knowledge to Be: James Gleick Reads Elizabeth Bishop
70. You Belong Here: An Illustrated Antidote to Our Existential Homelessness
71. The Difficult Art of Giving Space in Love: Rilke on Freedom, Togetherness, and the Secret to a Good Marriage
72. Against the Illusion of Separateness: Pablo Neruda’s Beautiful and Humanistic Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
73. Water: A Stunning Celebration of the Element of Life Based on Indian Folklore
74. Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak
75. Why the Sea Is Blue: Rachel Carson on the Science and Splendor of the Marine Spectrum
76. Literary Ecstasy: Virginia Woolf Describes a Psychedelic Experience
77. Van Gogh on the Beauty of Sorrow and the Enchantment of Storms, in Nature and in Life
78. Stephen Hawking on What Makes a Good Theory and the Quest for a Theory of Everything
79. The Great Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Czesław Miłosz on Love
80. King of the Sky: A Lyrical Illustrated Fable of Belonging and the Meaning of Home
81. Loneliness in Time: Physicist Freeman Dyson on Immigration and How Severing Our Connection to the Past Shallows Our Present and Hollows Our History
82. Walt Whitman on the “Meaning” of Art and How to Best Access the Poetic
83. Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Great Love
84. Voltaire on the Art of Being Undefeated by Hardship
85. Bluets: Maggie Nelson on the Color Blue as a Lens on Memory, Loneliness, and the Paradoxes of Love
86. James Baldwin on Resisting the Mindless Majority, Not Running from Uncomfortable Realities, and What It Really Means to Grow Up
87. George Eliot on Form, Poetry, and How Art Reveals the Interrelated Parts of the Whole
88. The Universe in Verse: Astrophysicist Natalie Batalha Reads Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Renascence” and Tells a Lyrical Personal Story About Her Path to Science
89. Tiny, Perfect Things: A Lyrical Illustrated Invitation to Presence
90. Tennessee Williams on Love and How the Very Thing Worth Saving Is the Thing That Will Save Us
91. Walt Whitman on Democracy and Optimism as a Mighty Form of Resistance
92. Philosopher Martin Buber on Love and What It Means to Live in the Present
93. Stephen Hawking’s Mother on Her Son’s Singular Genius and How We Expand the Boundaries of Human Knowledge
94. An Animated Field Guide to Black Holes and the Key Conundrum of Time
95. William Blake Illustrates Pioneering Feminist and Political Philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft’s Book of Moral Education for Children
96. Iris Murdoch on Storytelling, Why Art Is Essential for Democracy, and the Key to Good Writing
97. Oliver Sacks on Nature’s Beauty as a Gateway into Deep Time and a Lens on the Interconnectedness of the Universe
98. How to Change Your Mind: Michael Pollan on How the Science of Psychedelics Illuminates Consciousness, Mortality, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
99. Stephen Jay Gould’s Charming Poem for Oliver Sacks’s Birthday, Read by Bill Hayes
100. Kahlil Gibran on the Courage to Weather the Uncertainties of Love
101. The Mystery and Might of Water
102. An Illustrated Meditation on the Many Meanings and Manifestation of Love
103. Pioneering Feminist Philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft on Loneliness, Friendship, and the Courage of Unwavering Affection
104. From Immigrant to Inventor: The Great Serbian-American Scientist Michael Pupin on the Value of a Penniless Immigrant Boy Full of Promise
105. A Flash of Illumination on the Greyhound Bus: Physicist Freeman Dyson on Creative Breakthrough and the Unconscious Mind
106. How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life
107. Seneca on Gratitude and What It Means to Be a Generous Human Being
108. Cutting Greens: Terrance Hayes Reads Lucille Clifton’s Spare and Stunning Ode to the Kinship of All Creatures
109. The Brilliant Deep: The Illustrated Story of the Man Who Set Out to Save the World’s Coral Reefs with Hammer and Glue
110. Rilke on the Lonely Patience of Creative Work
111. Little Panic: A Literary Laboratory Exploring What It Is Like to Live in the Stranglehold of Anxiety and What It Takes to Break Free
112. ‘Frankenstein’ Author Mary Shelley on Creativity
113. Pi and the Meandering Paths of Rivers
114. Marcus Aurelius on How to Live Through Difficult Times
115. Amanda Palmer and The Decomposers Cover Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” in Tribute to Rachel Carson
116. 200 Years of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece as a Lens on Today’s Most Pressing Questions of Science, Ethics, and Human Creativity
117. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, Explained in a Pioneering 1923 Silent Film
118. The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on Communication, Control, and the Morality of Our Machines
119. Walking the City with Jane: An Illustrated Celebration of Jane Jacobs and Her Legacy of Livable Cities
120. Teddy Roosevelt on How the Blind Cult of Success Unfits Us for Democracy and Liberty
121. Nature and the Serious Business of Joy
122. How to Eat an Apricot: Diane Ackerman on Art, Science, and Wonder
123. William James on Consciousness and the Four Features of Transcendent Experiences
124. Julián Is a Mermaid: A Tenderhearted Story of Identity, Belonging, and the Courage to Be Yourself
125. How to Exercise Like a Poet: The Walt Whitman Workout
126. Be Still, Life: A Songlike Illustrated Invitation to Living with Presence
127. Egon Schiele on What It Means to Be an Artist and Why Visionaries Always Come from the Minority
128. The Universe in Verse: John Cameron Mitchell Reads Walt Whitman’s Beautiful Least Known Poem
129. How to Befriend the Universe: Philosopher and Comedian Emily Levine on the Art of Meeting Reality on Its Own Terms
130. Sojourners in Space: Annie Dillard on What Mangrove Trees Teach Us About the Human Search for Meaning in an Unfeeling Universe
131. William James on Science and Spirituality, the Limits of Materialism, and the Existential Art of Assenting to the Universe
132. Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom
133. Singularity: Poet Marie Howe’s Beautiful Tribute to Stephen Hawking and Our Belonging to the Universe
134. Two Hundred Years of Blue
135. Nabokov’s Synesthetic Alphabet: From the Weathered Wood of A to the Thundercloud of Z
136. The Trailblazing 18th-Century Woman of Letters Germaine de Staël on Ambition and the Crucial Difference Between Ego and Genius
137. Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers
138. Optimism: A Poetic Stop-Motion Celebration of Nature’s Resilience and the Persistence of Life Against All Odds
139. Pioneering Mathematician G.H. Hardy on How to Find Your Purpose and What Is Most Worth Aspiring for
140. Sojourns in the Parallel World: America Ferrera Reads Denise Levertov’s Ode to Our Ambivalent Relationship with Nature
141. Reality, Representation, and the Search for Meaning: Argentine Artist Mirtha Dermisache’s Invented Graphic Languages
142. The Universe as an Infinite Storm of Beauty: John Muir on the Transcendent Interconnectedness of Nature
143. A Brave and Startling Truth: Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads Maya Angelou’s Stunning Humanist Poem That Flew to Space, Inspired by Carl Sagan
144. Darkness in the Celestial Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf’s Arresting 1927 Account of a Total Solar Eclipse
145. Walt Whitman’s Advice to the Young on the Building Blocks of Character and What It Takes to Be an Agent of Change
146. Create Dangerously: Albert Camus on the Artist as a Voice of Resistance and an Instrument of Freedom
147. Thomas Carlyle on What Self-Help Really Means and the Healing Power of Love in Moments of Blackest Despair
148. Erich Fromm on Spontaneity as the Wellspring of Individuality, Creativity, and Love
149. Pioneering Jamaican-American Illustrator and Designer Jacqueline Ayer’s Lovely Vintage Children’s Book About Loss, Hope, and Homecoming, Inspired by Thailand
150. Theodore Roosevelt on the Cowardice of Cynicism and the Courage to Create Rather Than Tear Down
151. J.D. McClatchy on the Contrast and Complementarity of Desire and Love
152. Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Hymn to Time”
153. Esperanza Spalding Performs William Blake’s Short Existential Poem “The Fly”
154. Three Balls of Wool: An Illustrated Celebration of Nonconformity and the Courage to Remake Society’s Givens
155. Anna Deavere Smith on the Importance of Bringing Light to History’s Shadows and Resisting the Destructive Patterns Handed Down to Us by Our Invisible Pasts
156. Evolutionary Biologist Lynn Margulis on the Spirituality of Science and the Interconnectedness of Life Across Time, Space, and Species
157. Trailblazing Scottish Mountaineer and Poet Nan Shepherd on the Transcendent Rewards of Walking and What Makes for an Ideal Walking Companion
158. Rilke on Inspiration and the Combinatorial Nature of Creativity
159. The Hour of Land: Terry Tempest Williams on the Responsibility of Awe and the Wilderness as an Antidote to the War Within Ourselves
160. The Paradox of Freedom: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Moral Aloneness and Our Mightiest Antidote to Terror
161. Christopher Hitchens on Animal Rights, Our Human Hubris, and the Lesser Appreciated Moral of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”
162. Stunning, Sensual Illustrations for a Rare 1913 Edition of Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ by English Artist Margaret C. Cook
163. Subjectifying the Universe: Ursula K. Le Guin on Science and Poetry as Complementary Modes of Comprehending and Tending to the Natural World
164. Carl Sagan on Mystery, Why Common Sense Blinds Us to the Universe, and How to Live with the Unknown
165. The Art of Sympathetic Enthusiasm: Goethe on the Only Opinion Worth Voicing About Another’s Life and Creative Labor
166. An Axiom of Feeling: Werner Herzog on the Absolute, the Sublime, and Ecstatic Truth
167. Meryl Streep Reads “Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath
168. The Habits of Light: A Celebration of Pioneering Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, Whose Calculations Proved That the Universe Is Expanding
169. Audre Lorde on Kinship Across Difference and the Importance of Unity Within Movements for Equality and Social Change
170. Alan Lightman on the Longing for Absolutes in a Relative World and What Gives Lasting Meaning to Our Lives
171. Nietzsche on Truth, Lies, the Power and Peril of Metaphor, and How We Use Language to Reveal and Conceal Reality
172. Jerome by Heart: A Tender Illustrated Celebration of Love Beyond Labels
173. How a Hungarian Teenager Revolutionized Mathematics and Equipped Einstein with the Building Blocks of Relativity
174. Regina Spektor Reads “The Everyday Enchantment of Music” by Mark Strand
175. Chiura Obata’s Stunning Paintings of Yosemite
176. Queen Mary’s Dollhouse and the Lost Vita Sackville-West Children’s Story That May Have Inspired Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’
177. I and Thou: Philosopher Martin Buber on the Art of Relationship and What Makes Us Real to One Another
178. Iron & Wine & Geometry: Musician Sam Beam Reads Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Sonnet Celebrating Euclid
179. The Living Mountain: Pioneering Scottish Mountaineer and Poet Nan Shepherd’s Forgotten Masterpiece About Our Relationship with Nature
180. “Humans of New York” Creator Brandon Stanton Reads John Updike’s Playful and Profound Ode to the Neutrino
181. Stephen Hawking on the Meaning of the Universe
182. How New York Breaks Your Heart: A Photographic Elegy for the City of Electric Beauty with an Edge of Sorrow
183. Carl Sagan on the Enchantment of Chemistry, with Stunning Illustrations by Artist Vivian Torrence
184. The Hidden Lives of Owls
185. Hannah Arendt on Action and the Pursuit of Happiness
186. Zadie Smith on What Writers Can Learn from Some of History’s Greatest Dancers
187. Thoreau on Nature as Prayer
188. Nobel Laureate André Gide on the Five Elements of a Great Work of Art
189. Neither Victims Nor Executioners: Albert Camus on the Antidote to Violence
190. Bear and Wolf: A Tender Illustrated Fable of Walking Side by Side in Otherness
191. Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Happiness as a Moral Obligation
192. The Constitution of the Inner Country: Leonard Cohen on Words and the Poetry of Inhabiting Your Presence in Language
193. A Burst of Light: Audre Lorde on Turning Fear Into Fire
194. Sylvia Beach and the World’s First International Writers’ Protest
195. The Continuous Thread of Revelation: Eudora Welty on Writing, Time, and Embracing the Nonlinearity of How We Become Who We Are
196. Against Busyness and Surfaces: Emerson on Living with Presence and Authenticity
197. An Evolutionary Anatomy of Affect: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on How and Why We Feel What We Feel
198. The Temple of Knowledge: An Animated Celebration of How Libraries Change Lives
199. A Placid Ecstasy: Walt Whitman’s Most Direct Reflection on Happiness
200. Werner Heisenberg Falls in Love: The Love Letters of the Nobel-Winning Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics and Originator of the Uncertainty Principle
201. The Art of Receptivity: Hilton Als on Love
202. An Openness to Life: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dag Hammarskjöld on Love, Failure, and What It Means to Be Yourself
203. Nietzsche on Depression and the Rehabilitation of Hope
204. Zadie Smith on Optimism and Despair
205. Literary Witches: An Illustrated Celebration of Trailblazing Women Writers Who Have Enchanted and Transformed the World
206. Eleven Kinds of Blue: Werner’s Pioneering 19th-Century Nomenclature of the Colors, Beloved by Darwin
207. I Am Loved: Nikki Giovanni’s Poems for Kids, Selected and Illustrated by Beloved 94-Year-Old Artist Ashley Bryan
208. Thoreau on Knowing vs. Seeing and What It Takes to Apprehend Reality Unblinded by Our Preconceptions
209. Conversations with the Earth: Geologist Hans Cloos on the Complementarity of Art and Science in Illuminating the Splendor of Nature and Reality
210. Nobel-Winning Physicist Niels Bohr on Subjective vs. Objective Reality and the Uses of Religion in a Secular World
211. Ursula K. Le Guin on Art, Storytelling, and the Power of Language to Transform and Redeem
212. Ursula K. Le Guin on Busyness and the Creative Life
213. If Apples Had Teeth: Shirley and Milton Glaser’s Lovely Vintage Children’s Book About Questioning the Way Things Are
214. “A Wrinkle in Time” Author Madeleine L’Engle on Self-Consciousness and the Wellspring of Creativity
215. Walt Whitman on the Splendor of Winter Beaches and How Art Imbues Life’s Bleakest Moments with Beauty
216. Writing and the Threshold Life: Jane Hirshfield on How the Liminal Liberates Us from the Prison of the Self
217. T.S. Eliot on Writing: His Warm and Wry Letter of Advice to a Sixteen-Year-Old Girl Aspiring to Become a Writer
218. The Building Blocks of Personhood: Oliver Sacks on Narrative as the Pillar of Identity
219. Walking as Creative Fuel: A Splendid 1913 Celebration of How Solitary Walks Enliven “The Country of the Mind”
220. From Euclid to Equality: Mathematician Lillian Lieber on How the Greatest Creative Revolution in Mathematics Illuminates the Core Ideals of Social Justice and Democracy
221. W.H. Auden on the Political Power of Art and the Crucial Difference Between Party Issues and Revolutionary Issues
222. Blob: An Irreverent and Insightful Modern Fable About Beauty, Ugliness, the Paths to Acceptance, and How Admiration Hijacks Our Sense of Self
223. The World’s Most Lyrical Footnote: Physicist Richard Feynman on the Life-Expanding Common Ground Between the Scientific and the Poetic Worldviews
224. This Book Is a Planetarium: A Pop-Up Masterpiece Translating the Laws of Physics into Playful and Poetic Tangibility
225. The Wonders of Possibility: Lewis Thomas on Our Human Potential and Our Cosmic Responsibility to the Planet and to Ourselves
226. Germaine de Staël’s Guide to Haters: The First Modern Woman on Meritocracy, the Psychology of Why the Masses Rejoice in Tearing Down Successful Individuals, and the Only True Measure of Genius
227. A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season
228. Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos: An Illustrated Celebration of How the Pioneering Artist’s Love of Animals Shaped Her Character
229. D.H. Lawrence on the Antidote to the Malady of Materialism
230. A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves

2017

1. The Best of Brain Pickings 2017
2. In Praise of the Telescopic Perspective: A Reflection on Living Through Turbulent Times
3. Flatland Revisited: A Lovely New Edition of Edwin Abbott Abbott’s Classic 1884 Allegory of Expanding Our Perspective
4. The Human Mosaic of Beauty and Madness: Young Alan Watts on Inner Sanity Amid Outer Chaos
5. Walt Whitman on What Makes Life Worth Living
6. The 7 Loveliest Children’s Books of 2017
7. 7 Favorite Science Books of 2017
8. Jad Abumrad Reads an Ode to the Glory of Tiny Creatures and Celebrates His Mother’s Scientific Persistence
9. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the Women Cryptographers Who Fought WWII at the Intersection of Language and Mathematics
10. On a Magical Do-Nothing Day: A Lovely Illustrated Ode to the Nourishment of Nature and the Art of Solitude in the Age of Screens
11. The Heartening Illustrated Story of How Blues Pioneer Muddy Waters Transmuted Loss and Loneliness into Music That Changed History
12. The Songs of Trees: A Biologist’s Lyrical Ode to How Relationships Weave the Fabric of Life
13. The Dialogues: Illustrated Conversations About the Most Thrilling Frontiers of Science by Theoretical Physicist and Self-Taught Artist Clifford Johnson
14. Margaret Fuller on the Power of Music
15. On the Tranquility of Mind: Seneca on Resilience, the Trap of Power and Prestige, and How to Calibrate Our Ambitions for Maximum Contentment
16. Ursula K. Le Guin on Anger
17. The Art of Being Alone: May Sarton’s Stunning 1938 Ode to Solitude
18. Here We Are: Oliver Jeffers’s Warm Illustrated Field Guide to Living Together on Our Pale Blue Dot
19. Pioneering Physicist Enrico Fermi on the “Utility” of Science, the Aim of Knowledge, and Our Ultimate Responsibility to Nature
20. Descartes on Wonderment
21. Walt Whitman on Beethoven and Music as the Profoundest Expression of Nature
22. Neuroscientist Christof Koch on Free Will
23. Amanda Palmer Reads “Happiness” by Jane Kenyon
24. How Pioneering Firefighter Brenda Berkman Won Women’s Right to Heroism
25. Technology, Wisdom, and the Difficult Art of Civilizational Self-Awareness: Thomas Merton’s Beautiful Letter of Appreciation to Rachel Carson for Catalyzing the Environmental Movement
26. Oliver Sacks on the Three Essential Elements of Creativity
27. The Wisdom of Trees: Walt Whitman on What Our Silent Friends Teach Us About Being Rather Than Seeming
28. Between Sinew and Spirit: Are You a Body with a Mind or a Mind with a Body?
29. Carl Sagan on the Power of Books and Reading as the Path to Democracy
30. Great Writers on the Letters of the Alphabet, Illustrated by David Hockney
31. Love Found: A Diverse Illustrated Collection of Classic Poems Celebrating Desire, Longing, and Devotion
32. Pioneering Education Reformer Elizabeth Peabody on the True Object of Study
33. Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife
34. An Ode to the Number Pi by Nobel-Winning Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska
35. Meet Cipe Pineles: The Remarkable Life and Illustrated Recipes of the Forgotten Pioneer Who Blazed the Way for Women in Design and Publishing
36. An Alternative View of Human Nature: Rebecca Solnit on Disaster as a Catalyst for Dignity, Agency, and Human Goodness
37. Big Wolf & Little Wolf: A Tender Tale of Loneliness, Belonging, and How Friendship Transforms Us
38. W.E.B. Du Bois’s Little-Known, Arresting Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life for the World’s Fair of 1900
39. The Little-Known Visual Art of E.E. Cummings
40. A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating 1930s Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want
41. The Five Invitations: Zen Hospice Project Co-founder Frank Ostaseski on Love, Death, and the Essential Habits of Mind for a Meaningful Life
42. Existential Psychologist Rollo May on Freedom and the Significance of the Pause
43. Poetry and the Revolution of Being: Jane Hirshfield on How Great Art Transforms Us
44. Having It Out with Melancholy: Amanda Palmer Reads Jane Kenyon’s Stunning Poem About Life With and After Depression
45. On Saying “I Love You” Only When You Mean It: Robert Browning on Protecting the Sincerity of Sentiment from Desecration by Misuse
46. Florence Nightingale Visits a Mosque: The Founder of Modern Nursing on Women, Islam, and Religion’s Power Structures
47. The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
48. The Art of Living with Wide-Open Consciousness: Alice James on Attentiveness as the Pulse-Beat of Art
49. Caitlin Moran on Fighting the Cowardice of Cynicism
50. Take Fate by the Throat: Beethoven on Creative Vitality and Resilience in the Face of Suffering
51. Elizabeth Barrett Browning on the Dangerous Myth of the Suffering Artist and What Makes Life Worth Living
52. Rachel Carson on Science and Our Spiritual Bond with Nature
53. The Search for a New Humility: Václav Havel on Reclaiming Our Human Interconnectedness in a Globalized Yet Divided World
54. The Vampire Problem: A Brilliant Thought Experiment Illustrating the Paradox of Transformative Experience
55. Anatomy of Hatred: The Paradoxical Psychology of How That Which Repels Us Binds Us
56. How to Break Up Like a Poet: Edna St. Vincent Millay and the Art of the Kind, Clean Break
57. A Forgotten Poet Laureate of Nature on How Beauty Dissolves the Boundary Between Us and the World
58. Trailblazing Astronomer Maria Mitchell on How We Co-Create Each Other and Recreate Ourselves Through Friendship
59. How We Bridge the Real and the Ideal: Frederick Douglass on Art as a Tool of Constructive Self-Criticism and a Force of Cultural Progress
60. Empathy Is a Clock That Ticks in the Consciousness of Another: The Science of How Our Social Interactions Shape Our Experience of Time
61. Sam Shepard in Praise of Writing Letters as an Incomparable Art of Human Connection and a Creative Practice
62. Rachel Carson on Writing and the Loneliness of Creative Work
63. Margaret Fuller on the Revitalizing Power and Spiritual Rewards of a Seaside Vacation
64. The Paper-Flower Tree: An Illustrated Ode to the Courage of Withstanding Cynicism and the Generative Power of the Affectionate Imagination
65. A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
66. Answers in Progress: Amiri Baraka’s Lyrical Manifesto for Life
67. Gauguin’s Stirring First-Hand Account of What Actually Happened the Night Van Gogh Cut off His Own Ear
68. The Creative Tension Between Vitality and Fatality: Illuminating the Mystery of Sylvia Plath Through Her Striking Never-Before-Revealed Visual Art
69. Sun and Moon: Stunning Illustrations of Celestial Myths by Ten of India’s Greatest Indigenous Artists
70. The Haunted Mind: Nathaniel Hawthorne on How the Transcendent Space Between Sleep and Wakefulness Illuminates Time and Eternity
71. John Quincy Adams on Efficiency vs. Effectiveness, the Proper Aim of Ambition, and His Daily Routine
72. The Terror Within and the Evil Without: James Baldwin on Our Capacity for Transformation as Individuals and Nations
73. 91-Year-Old Lebanese-American Poet, Philosopher, and Painter Etel Adnan on Memory, the Self, and the Universe
74. An Illustrated Fictional Day in the Real Lives of Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein
75. Sam Shepard in Love, on Love
76. What to Look for During a Total Solar Eclipse: Mabel Loomis Todd’s Poetic 19th-Century Guide to Totality, with Help from Emily Dickinson
77. How to Live to the Full While Dying: The Extraordinary Diary of Alice James, William and Henry James’s Brilliant Sister
78. The Blue Songbird: A Tenderhearted and Lyrical Parable About Finding Your Voice and Coming Home to Yourself
79. Into the Chute of Time: Annie Dillard on the Stunning Otherworldliness of a Total Solar Eclipse
80. How Bach Will Save Your Soul: German Philosopher Josef Pieper on the Hidden Source of Music’s Supreme Power
81. Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life
82. Sir Thomas Browne on the Transcendent Torture of Romantic Friendship
83. Advice to the Young from Pioneering Astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Who Discovered the Composition of the Universe
84. The Drift Called the Infinite: Emily Dickinson on Making Sense of Loss
85. A Pioneering Scientist on Memory, the Value of Our Unremembered Work, and the Incalculable Sum Total of the Human Experience
86. The World’s First Celestial Spectator Sport: Astronomer Maria Mitchell’s Stunning Account of the 1869 Total Solar Eclipse
87. A Bioluminescent Wonder: Rachel Carson on the Art of Illuminating Nature Beyond Scientific Fact
88. When Things Fall Apart: Tibetan Buddhist Nun and Teacher Pema Chödrön on Transformation Through Difficult Times
89. Thoreau on Writing and the Splendors of Mystery in an Age of Knowledge
90. How to Live with Death
91. Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Love and the Seductions of Honesty
92. Good Sense vs. Free Hope: Margaret Fuller on Reaping Wonder from Everyday Reality
93. School Prayer: Diane Ackerman’s Poetic Invitation to Attentive Presence as a Means of Transcendence and Secular Spirituality
94. Frida Kahlo on the Meanings of the Colors
95. Kafka on the Power of Music and the Point of Making Art
96. You Are Not the Target: Laura Huxley on Course-Correcting the Paths of Love and Not-Love
97. The Muskrat and the Meaning of Life: Loren Eiseley on Reclaiming Our Sense of the Miraculous in a Mechanical Age
98. The Stars: A Mythopoeic Masterpiece Serenading the Night Sky Through Myths and Stories from Around the World
99. The Topography of Tears: A Stunning Aerial Tour of the Landscape of Human Emotion Through an Optical Microscope
100. Legendary Cosmologist Martin Rees on Science, Religion, and the Future of Post-Human Intelligence
101. Wallace Stevens on Reality, Creativity, and Our Greatest Self-Protection from the Pressure of the News
102. Albert Einstein on the Interconnectedness of Our Fates and Our Mightiest Counterforce Against Injustice
103. The Trouble with “Finding Yourself”
104. Beethoven and the Crucial Difference Between Genius and Talent
105. Alain de Botton on Infatuation
106. Book Power: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Forgotten 1969 Ode to Why We Read
107. Trailblazing Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Science, Spirituality, and the Conquest of Truth
108. Jeanette Winterson on How Art and Storytelling Redeem Our Inner Lives
109. Freedom and Destiny: Rollo May on the Constructiveness of Despair and the Vital Difference Between Happiness and Joy
110. Elie Wiesel on the Loneliness of Leadership, How Our Questions Unite Us, and How Our Answers Divide Us
111. Billy Collins’s Advice to Writers
112. The Universe in Verse 2017: Full Show
113. Three Worlds: Composer Max Richter Brings Virginia Woolf’s Most Beloved Writing to Sonic Life
114. Neuroscientist Christof Koch on How the “Qualia” of Our Experience Illuminate the Central Mystery of Consciousness
115. Anna Deavere Smith on How to Break the Paradox of Procrastination
116. A Laboratory for Feeling and Time: Pioneering Philosopher Susanne Langer on What Gives Music Its Power and How It Illuminates the Other Arts
117. Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Forgotten Treasure at the Intersection of Science and Poetry
118. The Doom and Glory of Knowing Who You Are: James Baldwin on the Empathic Rewards of Reading and What It Means to Be an Artist
119. In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs
120. Power and Tenderness: Robert Penn Warren on Democracy, Art, and the Integrity of the Self
121. Seneca on True and False Friendship
122. The Venus Hottentot: Elizabeth Alexander Reads Her Stirring Poem About the Roots of Racism and the Misuses of Science
123. Don Giovanni and the Universe: Aldous Huxley on How the Moon Illuminates the Complementarity of Spirituality and Science
124. Beethoven’s Advice on Being an Artist: His Touching Letter to a Little Girl Who Sent Him Fan Mail
125. Speech, Action, and the Human Condition: Hannah Arendt on How We Invent Ourselves and Reinvent the World
126. A Responsibility to Light: An Illustrated Manifesto for Creative Resilience and the Artist’s Duty in Dark Times
127. The Universe in Verse: Pulitzer-Winning Poet Tracy K. Smith Reads from “Life on Mars”
128. Love and Will: The Great Existential Psychologist Rollo May on Apathy, Transcendence, and Our Human Task in Times of Radical Transition
129. Go the Way Your Blood Beats: James Baldwin on Same-Sex Love, the Trap of Labels, and His Liberating Advice on Coming Out
130. Bertolt: An Uncommonly Tender Illustrated Story of Love, Loss, and Savoring Solitude Without Suffering Loneliness
131. Stitching a Supernova: A Needlepoint Celebration of Science by Pioneering Astronomer Cecilia Payne
132. We Are Listening: Diane Ackerman’s Ode to the Search for Life Beyond Earth and Our Longing for Cosmic Companionship
133. Bertrand Russell on Power-Knowledge vs. Love-Knowledge, the Two Faces of Science, and What Makes Life Satisfying
134. The Gold Leaf: An Enchanting Modern Fable About Possessiveness Redeemed by Unselfish Appreciation of Life’s Shared Wonder
135. Rosanne Cash on How Science Saved Her Life, the Source of Every Artist’s Power, and Her Beautiful Reading of Adrienne Rich’s Tribute to Marie Curie
136. The Inner Light That Makes Us Human: Legendary Science Writer Loren Eiseley on the Relationship Between Nature and Human Nature
137. Emerson on Individual Integrity and Resisting the Tyranny of the Masses
138. Seneca on Grief and the Key to Resilience in the Face of Loss: An Extraordinary Letter to His Mother
139. Hannah Arendt on Science, the Value of Space Exploration, and How Our Cosmic Aspirations Illuminate the Human Condition
140. Stunning Drawings of Seaweed from a Book by Self-Taught Victorian Marine Biologist Margaret Gatty
141. The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on What Self-Love Really Means and Why It Is the Basic Condition for a Sane Society
142. Sarah Jones Performs an Astonishing Chorus-of-Humanity Tribute to Jane Goodall
143. The Universe in Verse: Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads “Planetarium,” Adrienne Rich’s Tribute to Women in Astronomy
144. The Mushroom Hunters: Neil Gaiman’s Feminist Poem About Science, Read by Amanda Palmer
145. Inner Preacher vs. Inner Teacher: Ursula K. Le Guin on Meaning-Making and the Artist’s Task
146. Meryl Streep Sings Her Mother’s Lullaby
147. Gwendolyn Brooks on Vulnerability as Strength and Her Advice to Writers
148. Holocaust Survivor Primo Levi on Human Nature, Happiness and Unhappiness, and the Interconnectedness of Our Fates
149. The Founding Father of Neuroscience on Solitude, the Importance of Science in a Nation’s Greatness, and the Ideal Social Environment for Intellectual Achievement
150. Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy on the Unknown, the Horizons of the Knowable, and Why the Cross-Pollination of Disciplines is the Seedbed of Truth
151. Poetry as Protest and Sanctuary: Jane Hirshfield’s Magnificent Poem Against the Silencing of Science and the Assault on Nature
152. How to Tell a True Tale: Neil Gaiman on What Makes a Great Personal Story
153. Ursula K. Le Guin on Redeeming the Imagination from the Commodification of Creativity and How Storytelling Teaches Us to Assemble Ourselves
154. Kierkegaard on Time, the Fullness of the Moment, and How to Bridge the Ephemeral with the Eternal
155. The Ethics of Belief: The Great English Mathematician and Philosopher William Kingdon Clifford on the Discipline of Doubt and How We Can Trust a Truth
156. Paul Gauguin’s Advice on Overcoming Rejection, Breaking Free of Public Opinion, and Staying True to Your Creative Vision
157. Poems of Space: Pioneering Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell Reads “Halley’s Comet” by Stanley Kunitz
158. Hallelujah Anyway: Anne Lamott on Reclaiming Mercy and Forgiveness as the Root of Self-Respect in a Vengeful World
159. Beloved Lebanese-American Poet and Philosopher Kahlil Gibran on America, New York, and Jewishness
160. Hourglass: Dani Shapiro on Time, Memory, Marriage, and What Makes Us Who We Are
161. An 8-Year-Old Girl’s Poetic Tribute to Newton
162. Cynthia Nixon Reads Emily Dickinson’s “While I Was Fearing It, It Came”
163. Oliver Sacks on What a Pacific Island Can Teach Us About Treating Ill People as Whole People
164. Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding
165. Hannah Arendt on Human Nature vs. Culture, What Equality Really Means, and How Our Language Confers Reality Upon Our Experience
166. Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: A Lovely Children’s Book About the World’s First Computer Programmer
167. Elizabeth Alexander on How Great Artists Orient Themselves to Light of the World
168. The Nothingness of Personality: Young Borges on the Self
169. Working Together: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte’s Beautiful Ode to Our Mutuality with the World
170. Mathematician Lillian Lieber on Infinity, Art, Science, the Meaning of Freedom, and What It Takes to Be a Finite But Complete Human Being
171. The Trailblazing 18th-Century French Mathematician Émilie du Châtelet on Jealousy and the Metaphysics of Love
172. Descartes on Opinion vs. Reason, the Key to a Wakeful Mind, and the Discipline of Critical Introspection
173. Vincent van Gogh on the Psychological Rewards of Japanese Art
174. Our Smallness and the Cosmic Scale: How Big the Universe Is Relative to Us, Animated
175. The Heroism of Being a Contrarian: Jacob Bronowski on the Essential Character Trait of the Creative Person
176. This Is a Poem That Heals Fish: An Almost Unbearably Wonderful Picture-Book About How Poetry Works Its Magic
177. The Measure of All Things: How Two French Astronomers Nearly Lost Their Lives Revolutionizing the World with the Invention of the Meter
178. Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on How Our Certitudes Keep Us Small and the Generative Power of Not-Knowing
179. The Sane Society: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on How to Save Us From Ourselves
180. Beloved Artist Agnes Martin on Our Greatest Obstacle to Happiness and How to Transcend It
181. Six Dots: The Remarkable Life and Legacy of Child Inventor Louis Braille, Illustrated
182. Rebecca Solnit on Breaking Silence as Our Mightiest Weapon Against Oppression
183. The Telling: An Unusual and Profound 1967 Manifesto for Truth
184. Anthony Burgess on What Gives Art and Science Their Immeasurable Value
185. Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Talented from Achieving Greatness
186. Artist Anne Truitt on the Transcendent Sense of “Enough” and the Epiphany That Revealed to Her the Purpose of Art
187. Hooked on the Heavens: How Caroline Herschel, the First Professional Woman Astronomer, Nearly Died by Meathook in the Name of Science
188. How to Live Life with Fantastic Aliveness: Remembering Amy Krouse Rosenthal
189. Living and Loving Through Loss: Beautiful Letters of Consolation from Great Artists, Writers, and Scientists
190. Rebecca West on Storytelling as a Survival Mechanism and How Art Transforms Mere Existence into Meaningful Being
191. Einstein’s Remarkable Letter to a Grief-Stricken Father Who Had Just Lost His Son
192. How I Fell in Love with Marianne Moore: Or, Elizabeth Bishop on What Her Eccentric Mentor Taught Her About Writing
193. Atom, Archetype, and the Invention of Synchronicity: How Iconic Psychiatrist Carl Jung and Nobel-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli Bridged Mind and Matter
194. Inside Oliver Sacks’s Creative Process: The Beloved Writer’s Never-Before-Seen Manuscripts, Brainstorm Sheets, and Notes on Writing, Creativity, and the Brain
195. Hermann Hesse on Little Joys, Breaking the Trance of Busyness, and the Most Important Habit for Living with Presence
196. Virginia Woolf on the Defiant Truthfulness of the Soul and Our Elemental Human Need for Communication
197. The Great Indian Poet and Philosopher Tagore on Truth, Human Nature, and the Interdependence of Existence
198. Political Emotions: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How to Tame Our Raging Reactivity and Nurture Our Noblest Civic Selves
199. Are You An Echo: The Remarkable Story of the Forgotten Young Woman Who Became Japan’s Most Beloved Children’s Poet
200. Beethoven’s Lifestyle Regimen and the Secret to His Superhuman Vitality
201. Undersea: Rachel Carson’s Lyrical and Revolutionary 1937 Masterpiece Inviting Humans to Explore Earth from the Perspective of Other Creatures
202. Simone de Beauvoir on the Artist’s Task to Liberate the Present from the Past
203. The Poetics of Protest and Prayer: Mary Ruefle on the Different Powers of the Voice Raised and the Voice Lowered
204. Friend or Foe?: A Lovely Illustrated Fable About Making Sense of Otherness
205. John Steinbeck on the Loneliness of Success and His Surprising Source of Self-Salvation
206. Rebecca West on Survival, the Redemption of Suffering, and the Life-Saving Will to Keep Walking the Road to Ourselves
207. Beautiful Brain: The Stunning Drawings of Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal
208. The Tragic Heroism of Hopefulness: The Myth of Sisyphus in a Gorgeous 1974 Oscar-Nominated Hungarian Animation
209. How a Synesthete Experiences Bach: An Empathic Journey into Sound Through Minimalist Motion, Shape, and Color
210. How the French Mathematician Sophie Germain Paved the Way for Women in Science and Endeavored to Save Gauss’s Life
211. Bruce Lee’s Never Before Revealed Letters to Himself About Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success
212. Nina Simone on Time
213. The Binary Code of Body and Spirit: Computing Pioneer Alan Turing on Mortality
214. When a Friendship Is More Than Friendship: The Tender Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms
215. How to Know Everything About Everything: Laura Riding’s Extraordinary 1930 Letters to an 8-Year-Old Girl About Being Oneself
216. Audre Lorde on the Indivisibility of Identity and the Importance of Arts Education and Arts Funding
217. Alchemy and the Transmutation of Ignorance Into Truth: Lewis Thomas’s Prescient 1983 Manifesto for the Humanity-Saving Value of Social Science
218. Insomniac City: Bill Hayes’s Extraordinary Love Letter to New York, Oliver Sacks, and Love Itself
219. A Cinematic Love Letter to the Wilderness and John Muir’s Legacy
220. William Faulkner on What Sherwood Anderson Taught Him About Writing, the Artist’s Task, and Being an American
221. Italo Calvino on Racial Justice: The Beloved Italian Writer’s Stirring Account of the Early Civil Rights Movement and His Encounter with Martin Luther King, Jr.
222. Song of Two Worlds: Alan Lightman’s Poetic Ode to Science, the Unknown, and Our Search for Meaning, Illustrated by a Teenager in India
223. To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World: Pioneering Psychotherapist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, the Loneliness of Mental Illness, and the Healing Power of Believing in a Person’s Inextinguishable Inner Light
224. The Joy of Suffering Overcome: Young Beethoven’s Stirring Letter to His Brothers About the Loneliness of Living with Deafness and How Music Saved His Life
225. May Sarton on the Artist’s Duty to Contact the Timeless in Tumultuous Times
226. Rachel Carson’s Brave and Prescient 1953 Letter Against the Government’s Assault on Science and Nature
227. The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt on the Normalization of Human Wickedness and Our Only Effective Antidote to It
228. The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form
229. Sociologist Anne Wortham on Authenticity, the Real Meaning of Individualism, and the Choice to Abstain from Activism
230. An Anthem Against Silence: Amanda Palmer Reads Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s Piercing and Prescient 1914 Protest Poem
231. Hannah Arendt on Jewishness, the Immigrant Plight for Identity, and the Meaning of “Refugee”
232. The Unity of the Universe: Nobel-Winning Physicist Steven Weinberg on Simplicity and Complexity, Science and Religion, and the Mother of All Questions
233. Lebanese-American Painter, Poet, and Philosopher Kahlil Gibran on Why We Create
234. Literary Constellations: Astronomy-Inspired Visualizations of the Opening Sentences of Beloved Books
235. The Writing of “Silent Spring”: Rachel Carson and the Culture-Shifting Courage to Speak Inconvenient Truth to Power
236. Simone de Beauvoir on Atheism, the Ultimate Frontier of Hope, and the Need to Move Beyond the Simplistic Divide of Optimism and Pessimism
237. Oliver Sacks on Evolving Our Notions of Normalcy to Include the Differently Abled
238. In Search of a Better World: Karl Popper on Truth vs. Certainty and the Dangers of Relativism
239. The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece
240. Sociological Machiavellianism: Peter Berger on Compassion and the Humanistic Antidote to Cynicism
241. The Muse of History: Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott on Why Reconciling Our Conflicting Ancestral Pasts Is Necessary for Cultural Renewal
242. The Art of Knowing What to Do in Life: Pioneering Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Purpose Beyond Expectation and Choice Unbounded by Convention
243. Philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft on the Imagination and Its Seductive Power in Human Relationships
244. A Partnership Larger Than Marriage: The Stunning Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell
245. Anaïs Nin on How Reading Awakens Us from the Slumber of Almost-Living
246. Encke’s Comet, Celestial Poetics, and the Dawn of Popular Astronomy: How Emma Converse Became the Carl Sagan of the 19th Century
247. How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust
248. John Cheever on the Pain of Loneliness and How It Feeds the Beauty and Creative Restlessness of Youth
249. Legendary Anthropologist Margaret Mead on Work, Leisure, and Creativity
250. Rachel Carson’s Touching Farewell to Her Dearest Friend and Beloved
251. Wonder-Sighting in the Medieval World: Stunning Sixteenth-Century Drawings of Comets, with Carl Sagan’s Poetic Meditation on Their Science
252. Sleep Demons: Bill Hayes on REM, the Poetics of Yawns, and Maurice Sendak’s Antidote to Insomnia
253. Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Converge to Make Us Who We Are
254. Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on Selfhood, the Crucible of Identity, and What Makes Life’s Transience Bearable
255. Marcus Aurelius on How to Motivate Yourself to Get Out of Bed in the Morning and Go to Work
256. Denise Levertov on Making Art Amid Chaos and the Artist’s Task to Awaken Society’s Sleepers
257. Trailblazing 18th-Century Mathematician Émilie du Châtelet, Who Popularized Newton, on Gender in Science and the Nature of Genius
258. Adrienne Rich Reads “What Kind of Times Are These”

2016

1. John Steinbeck on Good and Evil, the Necessary Contradictions of the Human Nature, and Our Grounds for Lucid Hope
2. The Creative Architect: Inside Psychology’s Most Ambitious and Influential Study of What Makes a Creative Person
3. Simone de Beauvoir on Art, Science, Freedom, Busyness, and Why Happiness Is Our Moral Obligation
4. Democracy: Neil Gaiman’s Transcendent Animated Tribute to Leonard Cohen, with Piano by Amanda Palmer
5. Remembering Vera Rubin: The Trailblazing Astrophysicist Who Confirmed the Existence of Dark Matter and Paved the Way for Modern Women in Science
6. Meet Mary Somerville: The Brilliant Woman for Whom the Word “Scientist” Was Coined
7. Albert Camus on Consciousness and the Lacuna Between Truth and Meaning
8. Annie Dillard on the Winter Solstice and How the Snowy Season Awakens Us to Life
9. Physicist David Bohm on Creativity
10. Art in the Light of Conscience: The Great Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva on Loving vs. Understanding and the Paradoxical Psychology of Our Resistance to Ideas
11. Hannah Arendt on Loneliness as the Common Ground for Terror and How Tyrannical Regimes Use Isolation as a Weapon of Oppression
12. The Conscience of Words: Susan Sontag on the Wisdom of Literature, the Danger of Opinions, and the Writer’s Task
13. 16 Overall Favorite Books of 2016
14. The Invention of Empathy: Rilke, Rodin, and the Art of “Inseeing”
15. The Best Children’s Books of 2016
16. Marie Curie, Ambulance Driver: The Trailblazing Scientist’s Little-Known Humanitarian Heroism and Her Life-Saving Mobile X-Ray Units
17. The Difficult Art of Counter-Criticism: Rebecca Solnit on Celebrating Complexity, Savoring the Unquantifiable, and Defying the Urge to Simplify and Contain
18. Descartes on the Vital Relationship Between Fear and Hope
19. Acts That Amplify: Ann Hamilton on Art, the Creative Value of Unproductive Time, and the Power of Not Knowing
20. We Found a Hat: Jon Klassen’s Minimalist, Maximally Wonderful Parable of Transforming Covetousness into Generosity and Justice
21. Tim Ferriss on How He Survived Suicidal Depression and His Tools for Warding Off the Darkness
22. Why Our Partners Drive Us Mad: Philosopher Alain de Botton to the Central Foible of the Human Heart and How to Heal It
23. Poet Ann Lauterbach on Why We Make Art and How Art Makes Us
24. Du Iz Tak? A Lyrical Illustrated Story About the Cycle of Life and the Eternal Equilibrium of Growth and Decay
25. The Greatest Science Books of 2016
26. 10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings, Animated
27. A Voyage in the Clouds: The Heartening Illustrated Story of the First International Flight in 1785
28. Toni Morrison on the Power of Language: Her Spectacular Nobel Acceptance Speech After Becoming the First African American Woman Awarded the Accolade
29. The Glass Universe: How Harvard’s Unsung Women Astronomers Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos Decades Before Women Could Vote
30. Legendary Physicist David Bohm on the Paradox of Communication, the Crucial Difference Between Discussion and Dialogue, and What Is Keeping Us from Listening to One Another
31. Preaching to the Chickens: How Civil Rights Legend John Lewis’s Humble Childhood Incubated His Heroic Life
32. Stitching the Stars: Trailblazing Astronomer Maria Mitchell on the Needle as a Double-Edged Instrument of the Mind and Why Women Are Better Suited for Astronomy Than Men
33. Weather, Weather: Maira Kalman and Daniel Handler’s Lyrical Illustrated Celebration of the Elements
34. Joan Didion on Learning Not to Mistake Self-Righteousness for Morality
35. This Is Not a Picture Book: An Irreverent Illustrated Ode to Why We Read
36. Descartes on the Cure for Indecision
37. Genes and the Holy G: Siddhartha Mukherjee on the Dark Cultural History of IQ and Why We Can’t Measure Intelligence
38. You Are Here: Creative Cartography Mapping the Soul of New York
39. A Truly Human Endeavor: Cosmologist Janna Levin on the Transcendence of Science, the Climb Toward Truth, and Why Scientists Do What They Do
40. An Artist’s Life Manifesto: Marina Abramović’s Rules of Life, Solitude, and Silence
41. Eileen Myles Reads “For My Rampant Muse, For Her”
42. C.S. Lewis on Equality and Our Core Misconception About Democracy
43. Hold Still: Sally Mann on the Treachery of Memory, the Dark Side of Photography, and the Elusive Locus of the Self
44. Moon Man: Tomi Ungerer’s Timeless Vintage Illustrated Fable of How Fear and Cynicism Blind Us to Benevolence
45. Healing the Heart of Democracy: Parker Palmer on Holding the Tension of Our Differences in a Creative Way
46. Radical Hope: Philosopher Jonathan Lear on the Paradoxical Seedbed of Courage and Cultural Resilience
47. Einstein on Widening Our Circles of Compassion
48. In the Company of Women: Wisdom and Advice on the Creative Life from Beloved Women Artists, Makers, and Entrepreneurs
49. Nobel Laureate André Gide on the Freedom of Expression and the Vital Role of Art as Both Insurgency and Acceptance
50. Young Barack Obama on Identity, the Search for a Coherent Self, and How We Fragment Our Wholeness with Polarizing Identity Politics
51. A Sponge, Not a Fountain: Boris Pasternak on Art, the Source of Its Miraculousness, and Its Ultimate Function in Human Life
52. Patti Smith on Listening to the Creative Impulse and the Crucial Difference Between Writing Poetry and Songwriting
53. Maya Angelou on How a Library Saved Her Life
54. Multivocality, Polyphony, Gumbo Yaya: Elizabeth Alexander, Barack Obama’s Inaugural Poet, on the Power of Poetry in Moments of Powerlessness
55. Chinua Achebe on How Storytelling Helps Us Survive History’s Rough Patches
56. No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear: Toni Morrison on the Artist’s Task in Troubled Times
57. The Polar Bear: An Empathic Illustrated Invitation into the World of One of Our Planet’s Most Vulnerable Creatures
58. Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on the Measure of Courage and Crisis as a Clarifying Force of Self-Expansion
59. Leonard Cohen on Moonlight, the Mystique of Creativity, His Influences, and Why He Loves It When People Cover His Songs
60. The Dinner Party: Artist Judy Chicago’s Iconic Antidote to the Erasure of Women in the History of Creative Culture
61. Chirri & Chirra: A Japanese Parallel Love Letter to the Natural World and the Whimsical World
62. Finding Poetry in Other Lives: James Baldwin on Shakespeare, Language as a Tool of Love, and the Poet’s Responsibility to a Divided Society
63. There Is a Crack in Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In: Leonard Cohen on Democracy and Its Redemptions
64. H.L. Mencken on Reclaiming Democracy from the Mob Mentality That Masquerades for It
65. Elena Ferrante on the Myth of Inspiration, Writing on Demand, and the Central Truth of the Creative Process
66. Kindness Over Fear: Naomi Shihab Nye Tells the Remarkable Real-Life Story That Inspired Her Beloved Poem “Kindness”
67. Carl Sagan on Moving Beyond Us vs. Them, Bridging Conviction with Compassion, and Meeting Ignorance with Kindness
68. On Nonconformity: Artist Ben Shahn’s Spirited Defense of Nonconformists as Society’s Engine of Growth and Greatness
69. Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner’s Only Direct Discussion of Gender in Science
70. November 9, 1928: The Trial of Radclyffe Hall and Virginia Woolf’s Exquisite Case for the Freedom of Speech
71. Making the Impossible Possible: 21-Year-Old Hillary Rodham’s Remarkable 1969 Wellesley College Commencement Speech
72. De Profundis: Patti Smith Reads Oscar Wilde’s Stirring Letter on Suffering and Transcendence, Penned in Prison
73. Albert Camus on the Will to Live and the Most Important Question of Existence
74. May Sarton on Anger as Creativity in Reverse and a Safety Valve Against Madness
75. The Women Who Made New York: Restoring the Rightful Ratio of Remembrance
76. Roland: A Charming Vintage Illustrated Ode to the Imagination and the Animating Power of Kindness
77. The King of the Birds: The Illustrated Story of Flannery O’Connor and Her Beloved Peacock
78. Staying Alive: Mary Oliver on How Books Saved Her Life and Why the Passion for Work Is the Greatest Antidote to Pain
79. Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing as Falling in Love
80. 35 Odd Jobs Celebrated Painter Agnes Martin Held Before She Became an Artist
81. Keats on the Three Layers of Reality and What Gives Meaning to Human Existence
82. Alan Watts on the Antidote to the Loneliness of the Divided Mind, Our Integration with the Universe, and How We Wrest Meaning from Reality
83. I Regard With Compassion, Therefore I Am: Descartes on How We Acquire Nobility of Soul and the Crucial Difference Between Confidence and Pride
84. Trailblazing Philosopher Susanne Langer on the Purpose of Art, How It Works Us Over, and How Abstract Thinking Gives Shape to Human Emotion
85. How Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission, Paved the Way for Women in Science, and Was Denied the Nobel Prize
86. Walk Through Walls: Marina Abramović on Art, Fear, Taking Risks, and Pain as a Focal Lens for Presence
87. Joseph Brodsky on the Greatest Antidote to Evil
88. Moral Courage at Knifepoint: One Man’s Remarkable Response to His Mugger Reminds Us of What Is Best in Us
89. Explainer, Elucidator, Enchanter: A Gradation of Great Writing
90. Goethe’s Graphically Daring Diagrams of Color Perception
91. Abraham Lincoln on Living with Loss: His Magnificent Letter of Consolation to a Grief-stricken Young Woman
92. A Small Dark Light: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Legacy of the Tao Te Ching and What It Continues to Teach Us About Personal and Political Power 2,500 Years Later
93. Time Is When: A Charming Vintage Children’s Book About the Most Perplexing Dimension of Existence
94. 10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings
95. Proust on Why We Read
96. Nonstop Metropolis: An Atlas of Maps Reclaiming New York’s Untold Stories and Unseen Populations
97. Meditation Teacher Sharon Salzberg on What Compassion Really Means and How We Can Train Our Attention Toward It
98. The Daily Stoic: Timeless Wisdom on Character, Fortitude, Self-Control, and the Art of Living from Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
99. Listen! Listen!: A Vintage Invitation to Presence and Attentive Attunement with the World, Illustrated by Graphic Design Legend Paul Rand
100. When the Sky Is No More Than Remembered Light: Mark Strand Reads His Poignant Poem “The End”
101. May Sarton on the Cure for Despair and Solitude as the Seedbed of Self-Discovery
102. Thinking vs. Cognition: Hannah Arendt on the Difference Between How Art and Science Illuminate the Human Condition
103. The Death of a Tree: A Eulogy for a Dear Friend
104. The Central Paradox of Love: Esther Perel on Reconciling the Closeness Needed for Intimacy with the Psychological Distance That Fuels Desire
105. I Am Not I: Philosopher Jacob Needleman on How We Become Who We Are and the Path to Self-Liberation
106. What Color Is The Wind? A Most Unusual Serenade to the Senses, Inspired by a Blind Child
107. The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration, the Artist’s Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life
108. The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook: Food-Related Memories, Meditations, and Favorite Recipes by Beloved Creators
109. The Trans-Sensory Transcendence of Music: Helen Keller’s Electrifying Letter About “Hearing” Beethoven’s Ode to Joy
110. The Courage to Despair: Goethe, the Inner Tension of Creativity, and What It Takes to Be a Great Artist
111. How Libraries Save Lives
112. Why Anonymity Is More Artistically Rewarding Than Fame: Virginia Woolf on Elena Ferrante
113. Mozart and Haydn’s Beautiful, Selfless Friendship
114. When Debate Is Futile: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist’s Provocation
115. The Secret Life of Smell and What Dogs Can Teach Us About Accessing Hidden Layers of Reality
116. Leonard Bernstein on Cynicism, Instant Gratification, and Why Paying Attention Is a Countercultural Act of Courage and Resistance
117. A Cry of Gratitude: Baudelaire’s Magnificent Fan Mail to Wagner
118. Rilke on Writing and What It Takes to Be an Artist
119. Broadcasters of the Self: Ian McEwan on Our Age of Identity and How the Politics of Modern Selfhood Imperils the Art of Listening
120. The Power Paradox: The Surprising and Sobering Science of How We Gain and Lose Influence
121. Orson Welles Reads Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
122. The Difficult Balance of Intimacy and Independence: Beloved Philosopher and Poet Kahlil Gibran on the Secret to a Loving and Lasting Relationship
123. The Day I Became a Bird: A Tender Illustrated Parable of Falling in Love and Learning to Unmask Our True Selves
124. James Gleick on How Our Cultural Fascination with Time Travel Illuminates Memory, the Nature of Time, and the Central Mystery of Human Consciousness
125. The Secret Life of Trees: The Astonishing Science of What Trees Feel and How They Communicate
126. Virginia Woolf on the Nature of Memory and How It Threads Our Lives Together
127. We Are the American Heartbreak: Langston Hughes on Race in a Rare Recording
128. A Beginning, Not a Decline: Colette on the Splendor of Autumn and the Autumn of Life
129. Eudora Welty on the Difficult Art of Seeing Each Other and the Power of Photography as a Dignifying Force
130. George Bernard Shaw on the Meaning of Solidarity and Suffering as Our Supreme Conduit to Empathy
131. James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe’s Forgotten Conversation About Beauty, Morality, and the Political Power of Art
132. Truth Beyond Logic and Time Beyond Clocks: Janna Levin on the Vienna Circle and How Mathematician Kurt Gödel Shaped the Modern Mind
133. A New Refutation of Time: Borges on the Most Paradoxical Dimension of Existence
134. Harvest and the Human Spirit: Henry Beston on How Our Relationship to the Earth Reveals Us to Ourselves
135. The New Better Off: Courtney Martin on Reimagining Our Ethos of Success and Reclaiming Our Sense of “Enough”
136. Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Powered Early Space Exploration
137. How to Meditate: An Animated Guide
138. Baudelaire on the Genius of Childhood
139. Just-Like-That Mind: A Great Zen Teacher on Navigating Loss and Grief
140. Composing a Life: Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson on Our False Mythos of Achievement and the Messy, Nonlinear Reality of How We Become Who We Are
141. The Möbius Strip of Remembering and Forgetting: Teju Cole on How the Paradox of Photography Clarifies the Central Anxiety of Existence
142. Young Barack Obama on What His Mother Taught Him About Love
143. Facing the Blank Page: Celebrated Writers on How to Overcome Creative Block
144. Pinocchio: An Alternative Origin Story Exploring the Grandest Questions of Existence
145. A Cross-Cultural Bridge of Kinship and Mutual Appreciation: The Moving Correspondence of Albert Camus and Boris Pasternak
146. Leo Tolstoy on Love and Its Paradoxical Demands
147. The Sound of Silence: An Illustrated Serenade to the Art of Listening to Your Inner Voice Amid the Noise of Modern Life
148. Do: Sol LeWitt’s Electrifying Letter of Advice on Self-Doubt, Overcoming Creative Block, and Being an Artist
149. What Makes a Hero and the True Measure of the Human Spirit: Walter Lippmann’s Stunning Tribute to Amelia Earhart
150. The Terror of Kindness: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Overriding Our Cultural Conditioning and Living Beyond Fear
151. Dear Data: A Lyrical Illustrated Serenade to How Our Attention Shapes Our Reality
152. The Private Person and the Public Persona: Borges on the Divided Self
153. How the Bit Was Born: Claude Shannon and the Invention of Information
154. Jennifer Egan on Writing, the Trap of Approval, and the Most Important Discipline for Aspiring Writers
155. A Child of Books: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Wondrous World of Words and Stories
156. How to Vacation Like a Poet: A Postcard from Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott
157. The Difficult Art of Self-Compassion
158. Salvador Dalí’s Rare 1969 Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” Rediscovered and Resurrected
159. The Great Zen Master Seung Sahn Soen-sa on the Four Types of Anger and Its Paradoxical Constructive Side
160. It from Bit: Pioneering Physicist John Archibald Wheeler on Information, the Nature of Reality, and Why We Live in a Participatory Universe
161. How Horses Civilized Humanity, Shrank the Distance of Love, and Shaped the Way We Conduct Our Romantic Relationships
162. Baudelaire on Beauty and Strangeness
163. The Nature of Love: How Harry Harlow’s Seminal 1958 Research Shaped the Science of Affection and Changed Modern Parenting
164. Eudora Welty on Friendship as an Evolutionary Mechanism for Language
165. Frida Kahlo’s Illustrious Life, Illustrated
166. Oliver Sacks on Death, Destiny, and the Redemptive Radiance of a Life Fully Lived
167. Beloved Poet Thom Gunn’s Reading List of 10 Essential Books to Enchant Teenagers with Poetry
168. Auden on the True Task of the Critic, What It Really Means to Be a Scholar, and Why Malevolent Reviews Are Bad for Character
169. Swifter Than a Bird Flies: An Astonishing Account of Riding the First Passenger Train and How the Invention of Railroads Changed Human Consciousness
170. Virginia Woolf on How Our Illusions Keep Us Alive
171. Jorge Luis Borges on Collective Tragedy and Collective Joy
172. Bruce Lee’s Daughter Shares Her Father’s Philosophy of Learning
173. Aristotle’s Aperture: An Animated History of Photography, from the Camera Obscura to the Camera Phone
174. Adrienne Rich on the Political Power of Poetry and Its Role in the Immigrant Experience
175. What Makes a Good Life: Revelatory Learnings from Harvard’s 75-Year Study of Human Happiness
176. Neil Gaiman Reads “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury,” His Lovely Present for Bradbury’s 91st and Final Birthday
177. Rock Climbing and the Meaning of Life: Vita Sackville-West’s Letters to Virginia Woolf on the Intimacy-Building Power of Travel and How Nature Reveals Us to Ourselves
178. Cycling as a Cure for Creative Block: A Charming 1926 Case for Why the Bicycle Is the Ideal Vehicle for Writers
179. A Fairy Tale of Infinity and Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama Illustrates Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”
180. Werner Herzog Recommends Five Books Every Aspiring Filmmaker Should Read
181. Baudelaire on the Political and Humanitarian Power of Art: An Open Letter to Those in Power and of Privilege
182. Ted Hughes on How to Be a Writer: A Letter of Advice to His 18-Year-Old Daughter
183. Reclaiming Friendship: A Visual Taxonomy of Platonic Relationships to Counter the Commodification of the Word “Friend”
184. The Wolves of Currumpaw: The Illustrated True Story of the Tragic and Redemptive Fate of Wolves in North America
185. Life on a Möbius Strip: The Greatest Moth Story Ever Told, About the Unlikely Paths That Lead Us Back to Ourselves
186. Alain de Botton on What Makes a Good Communicator and the Difficult Art of Listening in Intimate Relationships
187. Colette on Writing, the Blissful Obsessive-Compulsiveness of Creative Work, and Withstanding Naysayers
188. James Gleick on Our Anxiety About Time, the Origin of the Term “Type A,” and the Curious Psychology of Elevator Impatience
189. Auden on Writing, Originality, Self-Criticism, and How to Be a Good Reader
190. Proust on Love and How Our Intellect Blinds Us to the Wisdom of the Heart
191. Wave: A Most Unusual Coloring Book by English Artist Shantell Martin, Inspired by Life in Japan
192. Mental Health, Free Will, and Your Microbiome
193. A Revolution With No Rewind: Galileo’s Daughter and How the Patron Saint of Astronomy Reconciled Science and Spirituality
194. The Rocket Book: A Conceptually Ingenious, Stunningly Illustrated 1912 Children’s Book About Urban Living
195. Schopenhauer on the Essential Difference Between How Art and Science Reveal the World
196. Blake, Beethoven, and the Tragic Genius of Outsiderdom
197. Rosanne Cash on Creative Heritage, the Bravery of Befriending Our Roots, and What Her Father, Johnny Cash, Taught Her About Artistic Integrity
198. Diane Ackerman on the Evolutionary and Existential Purpose of Deep Play
199. Neil Gaiman on Why We Read and What Books Do for the Human Experience
200. Bruce Lee’s Never-Before-Seen Writings on Willpower, Emotion, Reason, Memory, Imagination, and Confidence
201. Maria Mitchell and the Spider’s Web: A Touching Testament to Tenacity from America’s First Woman Astronomer
202. A Benediction on the World: Wendell Berry on Creaturely Joy
203. Virginia Woolf on Clothing as a Vehicle of Identity, the Fluidity of Gender, and the Trans Dimension of Human Nature
204. How Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West Fell in Love
205. An Illustrated Celebration of Trailblazing Women in Science
206. Henry Beston on Happiness, Simplicity, and the Sacredness of Smallness
207. Susan Sontag on How Photography Mediates Our Relationship with Life and Death
208. Pioneering Scientist Erwin Chargaff on the Power of Being an Outsider and What Makes a Great Teacher
209. Neuroscientist Sam Harris on Our Misconceptions About Free Will and How Acknowledging Its Illusoriness Liberates Us Rather Than Taking Away Our Freedom
210. Chelsea Clinton Reads James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Role in Society
211. The Effortless Effort of Creativity: Jane Hirshfield on Storytelling, the Art of Concentration, and Difficulty as a Consecrating Force of Creative Attention
212. Perception and the Power of the Critical Imagination: Alfred Kazin on Embracing Contradiction and How the Sacredness of Human Attention Shapes Our Reality
213. Snail, Where Are You? Tomi Ungerer’s Wordless Vintage Conceptual Masterpiece
214. Hemingway’s Tough-Love Letter of Advice to F. Scott Fitzgerald on Writing and Turning Suffering into Creative Fuel
215. Arthur Schopenhauer on the Relationship Between Genius and Madness and How Memory Mediates the Blurry Line Between Sanity and Insanity
216. How to Neutralize Haters: E.E. Cummings, Creative Courage, and the Importance of Protecting the Artist’s Right to Challenge the Status Quo
217. The Science of What Makes You You and How Old Your Body Really Is
218. How Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell Shaped Our Understanding of the Universe by Discovering Pulsars, Only to Be Excluded from the Nobel Prize
219. William Blake’s Most Beautiful Letter: A Searing Defense of the Imagination and the Creative Spirit
220. Geoff Dyer on the Paradoxical Rewards of Our Capacity for Disappointment
221. You Got Me Singing: Jack and Amanda Palmer’s Elegy for Time and Ode to the Dignity of the Downtrodden and the Dispossessed
222. 100 Days of Overthinking: An Illustrated Diary of Mental Meanderings
223. The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected: Astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser on the Transcendence of Nature and Fishing as a Metaphor for the Pursuit of Knowledge
224. Thoreau on How to Use Civil Disobedience to Advance Justice
225. Hermann Hesse on the Three Types of Readers and the Most Transcendent Form of Reading
226. Nora Ephron on Women, Politics, and the Myth of Objectivity in Journalism
227. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
228. The Power of Solidarity in the Conquest of Justice: How Sixteen White Poets Banded Against Police Brutality and Stood Up for Amiri Baraka in 1968
229. Étienne Léopold Trouvelot’s Stunning 19th-Century Astronomical Drawings of Celestial Objects and Phenomena
230. What Makes an Artist: Robert Walser’s Poetic Portrait of the Creative Spirit
231. Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on How Our Minds Obscure Our Bodies
232. The Science of Affection: How a Rebel Researcher Pioneered the Study of Love in the 1950s and Illuminated How Parents Shape Children’s Emotional Patterns
233. Alfred Kazin on Loneliness, the Immigrant Experience, the Economics of Love, and How Reading Liberates Us
234. Geographical Fun: A Victorian Teenage Girl’s Impressive Cartographic Caricatures of European Countries and Their National Stereotypes
235. Artist Anne Truitt on Love, Loss, Regret, What Makes Marriage Work, and the Syncopation of Grief and Gladness
236. Why Do We Love? An Animated Inquiry Into Romance by Philosopher Skye Cleary
237. The Evolution of the Book, Animated
238. Conundrum: Pioneering Trans Writer Jan Morris on Gender, Identity, Belonging, and the Integration of Body and Spirit
239. Schopenhauer on What Makes a Genius and the Crucial Difference Between Talent and Genius
240. Amanda Palmer Reads “Humanity I Love You” by E.E. Cummings
241. E.B. White on Weapons, Justice, and What It Really Takes to Live in a Peaceful World
242. Mapping the Heavens: How Cosmology Shaped Our Understanding of the Universe and the Strange Story of How the Term “Black Hole” Was Born
243. David Ogilvy on the True Value of Education: A Brilliant Letter of Advice to His 18-Year-Old Nephew
244. Alain de Botton on Love, Vulnerability, and the Psychological Paradox of the Sulk
245. Walt Whitman on Identity and the Paradox of the Self
246. Thin Slices of Anxiety: An Illustrated Meditation on What It’s Like to Live Enslaved by Worry and How to Break Free
247. The Emperor of Time: A Dreamlike Short Film About Motion Picture Pioneer Eadweard Muybridge
248. Mary McCarthy on Human Nature, Moral Choice, and How We Decide Whether Evil Is Forgivable
249. Patternicity: Dreamy Diagrams and Lyrical Visualizations of the Eccentric Details of Daily Life in the City
250. Abraham Lincoln’s Tough-Love Letter to His Step-Brother About Laziness and Work Ethic
251. Solstice, Seasonality, and the Human Spirit: A Beautiful 1948 Meditation
252. The Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma
253. Albert Camus on What It Means to Be a Rebel and to Be in Solidarity with Justice
254. The Lost Art of Astropoetics: An 1881 Cosmic Masterpiece by the Forgotten Woman Who Popularized Astronomy
255. The Final Word Is Love: Dorothy Day on Human Connection, Music, and the Power of Community
256. Virginia Woolf on the Relationship Between Loneliness and Creativity
257. Lying in Politics: Hannah Arendt on Deception, Self-Deception, and the Psychology of Defactualization
258. Strong as a Bear: An Illustrated Celebration of Animals and Their Emotional Presence in Language
259. Pioneering Biochemist Erwin Chargaff on the Poetics of Curiosity, the Crucial Difference Between Understanding and Explanation, and What Makes a Scientist
260. Mary McCarthy on Love and Hannah Arendt’s Advice to Her on the Dangerous Delusion That We Can Change the People We Love
261. John Cage’s Intensely Beautiful Love Letters to Merce Cunningham
262. Einstein’s Brilliant and Unusual Life, in a Graphic Novel
263. Strange Trees: An Illustrated Atlas of the World’s Arboreal Wonders
264. Permanent Present Tense: Pioneering Scientist Suzanne Corkin on How the Famous Amnesiac H.M. Illuminates the Paradoxes of Memory and the Self
265. How Our Government Helps Us: A Charming 1969 Illustrated Primer
266. Your Body Is a Space That Sees: Artist Lia Halloran’s Stunning Cyanotype Tribute to Women in Astronomy
267. Anne Lamott on the Life-Giving Power of Great Teachers
268. The Magic of the Book: Hermann Hesse on Why We Read and Always Will
269. The Transactional Self: Psychologist Jerome Bruner on Social Mutuality, the Paradox of Privacy, and How Storytelling Shapes Our Sense of Personhood
270. Eyes on the Stars: Astronaut Ronald McNair, Who Perished in the Challenger Disaster, Remembered by His Brother in an Affectionate Animated Short Film
271. Leo Tolstoy, Shortly Before His Death, on Love, Reason, Human Nature, and What Gives Meaning to Our Lives
272. Primo Levi on the Spiritual Value of Science and How Space Exploration Brings Humanity Closer Together
273. An Illustrated Celebration of Jane Austen’s Life
274. Allen Ginsberg on the Tyranny of the Closet, Coming Out to His Loved Ones, and How Buddhist Meditation Helped Him Stop Seeking Approval
275. Henry Beston on Human Nature and the Power of Community
276. Existential Therapy from the Universe: Physicist Sean Carroll on How Poetic Naturalism Illuminates Our Human Search for Meaning
277. Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life
278. George Eliot on Leisure and Our Greatest Source of Restlessness
279. Computer Crashes Before Computers: When John Steinbeck’s Dog Ate His Manuscript
280. The Power of Cautionary Questions: Neil Gaiman on Ray Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ Why We Read, and How Speculative Storytelling Enlarges Our Humanity
281. How Do You Measure Your Life: Artist Carrie Mae Weems’s Stirring SVA Commencement Address
282. The Annihilation of Space and Time: Rebecca Solnit on How Muybridge Froze the Flow of Existence, Shaped Visual Culture, and Changed Our Consciousness
283. Can Goodness Win? George Saunders on Writing, the Artist’s Task, and the Importance of Living with Opposing Truths
284. Elizabeth Alexander on Writing, the Ethic of Love, Language as a Vehicle for the Self, and the Inherent Poetry of Personhood
285. Against Self-Criticism: Adam Phillips on How Our Internal Critics Enslave Us, the Stockholm Syndrome of the Superego, and the Power of Multiple Interpretations
286. Daytime Visions: A Tender and Unusual Illustrated Alphabet Celebrating the Whimsy of Words
287. Beautiful Vintage Illustrations for Scheherazade’s Stories and Scandinavian Fairy Tales by Swedish Modernist Pioneer GAN
288. Audre Lorde on the Vulnerability of Visibility and Our Responsibility, to Ourselves and Others, to Break Our Silences
289. From Scripture to Screen: Kate Tempest’s Electrifying Spoken-Word Meditation on Our Fraught Fillers of Existential Emptiness
290. Speaking Truth to Power and the Value of Counterpoints: Madeleine Albright’s Surprising Commencement Address
291. Eleanor Roosevelt on Science
292. The Art of Medicine: W.H. Auden on What Makes a Great Physician and How He Influenced Oliver Sacks
293. The Will to Doubt: Bertrand Russell on Free Thought and Our Only Effective Self-Defense Against Propaganda
294. The Storm: A Lovely Illustrated Parable of Fear, the Frustration of Uncontrollable Events, and the Redemptive Power of Surrendering to Life’s Ebb and Flow
295. How Leo Tolstoy Found His Purpose: The Beloved Author on Personal Growth and the Meaning of Human Existence
296. Wait: Galway Kinnell’s Beautiful and Life-Giving Poem for a Young Friend Contemplating Suicide
297. Lou Andreas-Salomé, the First Woman Psychoanalyst, on Depression and Creativity in Letters to Rilke
298. On the Soul-Sustaining Necessity of Resisting Self-Comparison and Fighting Cynicism: A Commencement Address
299. A Largeness of Contemplation: Bertrand Russell on Intuition, the Intellect, and the Nature of Time
300. In Praise of the Tamed Metaphysicist: Einstein on Reality, Rationality, and the Human Passion for Comprehension
301. Virginia Woolf on What Makes Love Last
302. W.H. Auden on Writing, Belief, Doubt, False vs. True Enchantment, and the Most Important Principle of Making Art
303. James Baldwin on Freedom and How We Imprison Ourselves
304. The Source of Richard Feynman’s Genius
305. A Lovely Vintage Children’s Concept Book About How the Imagination Works, Newly Discovered and Illustrated
306. Alison Bechdel on Writing, Therapy, Self-Doubt, and How the Messiness of Life Feeds the Creative Conscience
307. Pioneering Psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott on the Mother’s Contribution to Society
308. Either/Or: Kierkegaard on the Tyranny of Choice and How to Transcend the Trap of Double Regret
309. Urbanism Patron Saint Jane Jacobs on Our Civic Duty in Cultivating Cities That Foster a Creative Life
310. Ursula K. Le Guin on Power, Oppression, Freedom, and How Imaginative Storytelling Expands Our Scope of the Possible
311. The Magic and Logic of Powerful Public Speaking: TED Curator Chris Anderson’s Field Guide to Giving a Great Talk
312. Duck, Death and the Tulip: An Uncommonly Tender Illustrated Meditation on the Cycle of Life
313. Probability Theory Pioneer Mark Kac on the Duality of the Creative Life, the Singular Enchantment of Mathematics, and the Two Types of Geniuses
314. Nobel-Winning Physicist Frank Wilczek on Complementarity as the Quantum of Life and Why Reality Is Woven of Opposing Truths
315. Eleanor Roosevelt on the Power of Personal Conviction and Our Individual Responsibility in Social Change
316. Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on Anger, Forgiveness, the Emotional Machinery of Trust, and the Only Fruitful Response to Betrayal in Intimate Relationships
317. What It’s Like to Be Transgender: A Piercing Poem by Slam Poet and TED Fellow Lee Mokobe
318. It’s Only a Draft, After All: Graham Greene on Love and Death in Existential Reflections from His Dream Diary
319. Poetry and the Creative Mind: Bill T. Jones’s Electrifying Reading of Four Beloved Poems
320. The Psychology of Time and How the Interplay of Spontaneity and Self-Control Mediates Our Capacity for Presence
321. Dostoyevsky on Integrity, Success, and the Ultimate Goal of Creative Work
322. Schopenhauer on the Power of Music
323. Sylvia Plath Reads “Spinster” in a Rare BBC Recording
324. The Joy of Swimming: An Illustrated Celebration of the Water as a Medium of Bodily, Mental, and Spiritual Movement
325. A Madman Dreams of Tuning Machines: The Story of Joseph Weber, the Tragic Hero of Science Who Followed Einstein’s Vision and Pioneered the Sound of Spacetime
326. The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear
327. Nietzsche on Dreams as an Evolutionary Time Machine for the Human Brain
328. The Remarkable Love Letters of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger
329. Trailblazing Philosopher Susanne Langer on How Our Questions Shape Our Answers and Direct Our Orientation of Mind
330. Van Gogh on Heartbreak and Unrequited Love as a Vitalizing Force for Creative Work
331. Don’t Heed the Haters: Albert Einstein’s Wonderful Letter of Support to Marie Curie in the Midst of Scandal
332. Pioneering Astronomer Vera Rubin on Women in Science, Dark Matter, and Our Never-Ending Quest to Know the Universe
333. Lenny & Lucy: A Lovely Illustrated Parable of Befriending Change and Transcending Our Fear of the Unknown
334. Healthcare and the Human Spirit: Walt Whitman on the Most Important Priority in Healing the Body and the Soul
335. Kafka on Taoism, the Nature of Reality, and the Truth of Human Life
336. The Rise of Rocket Girls: The Untold Story of the Remarkable Women Who Powered Space Exploration
337. Artist Louise Bourgeois on How Solitude Enriches Creative Work
338. John Steinbeck on Racism and Bigotry
339. Feathers: A Stunning Photographic Love Letter to Evolution’s Masterpiece and Its Astonishing Array of Beauty
340. How Music Helps Us Grieve
341. James Baldwin on the Artist’s Struggle for Integrity and How It Illuminates the Universal Experience of What It Means to Be Human
342. Between the World and Us: Hannah Arendt on Outsiderdom, the Power and Privilege of Being a Pariah, and How We Humanize Each Other
343. Amanda Palmer on Art, Love, Loneliness, Motherhood, Vulnerability, Trust, and Our Lifelong Quest to Feel Real
344. Cicero on the Positive Side of Envy, Its Counterintuitive Kinship with Compassion, and Its Power as a Tuning Fork for the Instrument of Our Determination
345. David Whyte on Vulnerability, Presence, and How We Enlarge Ourselves by Surrendering to the Uncontrollable
346. A Loving Illustrated Homage to Virginia Woolf’s Remarkable Life and Legacy
347. The White Cat and the Monk: A Lovely 9th-Century Ode to the Joy of Uncompetitive Purposefulness, Newly Illustrated
348. Spiderwoman’s Cloth Lullaby: The Illustrated Life of Artist Louise Bourgeois
349. Sculpting in Time: Legendary Russian Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky on Why Film Enchants Us and What a Great Director Should Aim to Do
350. Trust Yourself: Emerson on Self-Reliance as the Essence of Genius and What It Means to Be a Nonconformist
351. Becoming Wise: Krista Tippett on Love and Mastering the Art of Living
352. How to Handle Criticism: Advice from Some of the Greatest Writers of the Past Century
353. The Charming Doodles Charles Darwin’s Children Left All Over the Manuscript of ‘On the Origin of Species’
354. Aldous Huxley on the Transcendent Power of Music and Why It Sings to Our Souls
355. James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni’s Extraordinary Forgotten Conversation About the Language of Love and What It Takes to Be Truly Empowered
356. John Steinbeck on Writing, the Crucible of Creativity, and the Mobilizing Power of the Impossible
357. Dostoyevsky on the Heart vs. the Mind and How We Come to Know Truth
358. Erich Fromm on Human Nature, the Common Laziness of Optimism and Pessimism, and Why We Need Rational Faith in the Human Spirit
359. Plato’s Two Charioteers: Free Will, Moral Agency, and How to Negotiate Our Capacities for Good and Evil
360. Rules for the Direction of the Mind: Descartes’s 12 Timeless Tenets of Critical Thinking
361. Susan Sontag on Selfies, Selfhood, and How the Camera Helps Us Navigate Complexity
362. Rilke’s Redemption: The Beloved Poet’s Stirring Letter to His Boyhood Teacher at the Military Academy That Almost Broke His Soul
363. Aldous Huxley on Sincerity, Our Fear of the Obvious, and the Two Types of Truth Artists Must Reconcile
364. Freedom in Congo Square: An Illustrated Ode to Finding Dignity Amid Oppression and the Soul-Preserving Function of Joy
365. Annie Dillard on What It Takes to Be a Writer and Why Generosity Is the Most Powerful Animating Force of Art
366. William James on Attention, Multitasking, and the Habit of Mind That Sets Geniuses Apart
367. Patti Smith Reads Her Beautiful Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe About How He Taught Her What It Means to Be an Artist
368. Adrienne Rich on What a Rare Blue Bird Taught Her About the Nexus of Art, Science, and Politics in Human Life
369. The Art of Living: The Great Humanistic Philosopher Erich Fromm on Having vs. Being and How to Set Ourselves Free from the Chains of Our Culture
370. Pioneering 19th-Century Photographer Félix Nadar on Gender and the Single Most Important Factor in Becoming a Successful Artist
371. The Savage and the Scholar: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on the Role of the Artist in Humanizing Our History
372. Billy Collins Reads His Homage to Aristotle
373. Why Love Hurts: The Sociology of How Our Institutions Rather Than Our Personal Psychological Failings Shape the Romantic Agony of Modern Life
374. Studs Terkel on the Dignity of Work, Why We Do What We Do, and the Extraordinary Dreams of Ordinary People
375. The Strange, Familiar, and Forgotten: A Trailblazing Exploration of Consciousness, Memory, and How Our Sense of Self Arises
376. Junot Díaz on the Complexities Beneath the Blanket Term “Race,” Our Limiting Mythologies of Success, Why Dictatorships Are Like Reddit, and How Artists Survive
377. Steinbeck and the Difficult Art of the Friend Breakup
378. Rebecca Solnit on Hope in Dark Times, Resisting the Defeatism of Easy Despair, and What Victory Really Means for Movements of Social Change
379. Great Writers on the Power of Music
380. An Absorbing Errand: The Psychology of Mastery in Creative Work
381. The Parallels Between Being an Artist and Being a Parent
382. ‘Humans of New York’ Founder Brandon Stanton on Serial Obsessions, How to Build a Sensibility, the Dignity-Conferring Power of Listening, and the Value of Time
383. Einstein’s Message to Posterity from the 1939 World’s Fair Time-Capsule
384. The Fox and the Star: A Lyrical Modern Fable of Loneliness and Belonging, Bridged Through Self-Discovery
385. Ursula K. Le Guin on How You Make Something Good in Creative Work
386. The Causes and Cures of Lovesickness: A 17th-Century Guide to the Woes of the Heart
387. Cry, Heart, But Never Break: A Remarkable Illustrated Meditation on Loss and Life
388. Make This World Worthy of Its Children: Legendary Cellist Pau Casals on JFK, Violence, the Proper Aim of Education, and the Measure of Our Humanity
389. Henry James and H.G. Well’s Famous Feud About Writing, the Purpose of Art, and the Usefulness of Literature
390. The Ship of Theseus: A Brilliant Ancient Thought Experiment Exploring What Makes You You
391. Poet Sarah Kay on How We Measure Creative Success, Being a Working Artist in Today’s World, and the Only Antidote to Our Endemic Fear of Missing Out
392. Legendary Physicist Freeman Dyson on God, Unanswerable Questions, and Why Diversity Is the Ruling Law of the Universe
393. Eudora Welty Reads Her Comic and Quietly Heartbreaking Masterpiece “Why I Live at the P.O.”
394. The Charter of Free Inquiry: The Buddha’s Timeless Toolkit for Critical Thinking and Combating Dogmatism
395. The Most Beautiful Theory: Physicist Carlo Rovelli on the Aesthetic Enchantment and Scientific Impact of Einstein’s Relativity
396. Thoreau on the Difference Between an Artisan, an Artist, and a Genius
397. The Pancake King: A Lovely Vintage Children’s Book About How Success and Prestige Can Hijack Our Sense of Purpose
398. Finding Winnie: The Improbable and Touching Real-Life Story of the Baby Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
399. The Gutsy Girl: A Modern Manifesto for Bravery, Perseverance, and Breaking the Tyranny of Perfection
400. What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Identity in Literature and Life
401. Alan Turing’s Little-Known Contributions to Biology and His Mesmerizing Hand-Drawn Diagrams of Dappling Patterns
402. Gardening and the Secret of Happiness
403. Arthur Rackham’s Rare and Revolutionary 1917 Illustrations for the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
404. The Angels and Demons of Genius: Robert Lowell on What It’s Like to Be Bipolar
405. The Tragic Necessity of Human Life: Willa Cather on Relationships and How Our Formative Family Dynamics Imprint Us
406. The Science of Why February 29 Exists and Poet Jane Hirshfield’s Ode to the Leap Day
407. Havelock Ellis on the Function of Taboos, Their Vital Role in Community, and How They Bolster the Discipline of Compassion
408. Anthony Burgess on the Magical Moment He Fell in Love with Music as a Little Boy
409. Iris Murdoch on Love and Chance
410. Artist Agnes Martin on Inspiration, Interruptions, Cultivating a Creative Atmosphere, and the Only Type of Person You Should Allow Into Your Studio
411. Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Exquisite Polyamorous Love Letters from the 1920s
412. Walt Whitman on Donald Trump, How Literature Bolsters Democracy, and Why a Robust Society Is a Feminist Society
413. W.E.B. Dubois’s Magnificent Letter of Advice to His Teenage Daughter
414. Umberto Eco on the Future of the Book
415. The Enchantment of Mathematics
416. The Story of How Alice in Wonderland Was Born and Amanda Palmer’s Magnificent Brass Band Cover of “White Rabbit”
417. Why We Read: Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on What Books Do for the Human Spirit
418. John Keats’s Exquisite Love Letter to Fanny Brawne
419. James Baldwin on the Revelation That Taught Him How to Truly See
420. The Hum of the Universe: Shonda Rhimes on Creative Burnout, the Hamster Wheel of Success, and Reclaiming Who We Are from the Workaholic Grip of What We Do
421. Weathering: Poet Fleur Adcock’s Sublime Eulogy for Growing Older
422. What Makes an Original: Psychologist Adam Grant on the Paradox of Achievement and How Motivated Dissatisfaction Fuels Creativity
423. Anna Dostoyevskaya on the Secret to a Happy Marriage: Wisdom from One of History’s Truest and Most Beautiful Loves
424. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Story Behind Newton’s Famous Metaphor for How Knowledge Progresses
425. 9 Books About the Many Meanings of Time: A TED Bookstore Collaboration
426. What Makes the Octopus and Its Consciousness So Extraordinary
427. Seneca on Overcoming Fear and the Surest Strategy for Protecting Yourself from Misfortune
428. Charles Darwin’s Touching Letter of Appreciation to His Best Friend and Greatest Champion
429. Art as Experience: John Dewey on Why the Rhythmic Highs and Lows of Life Are Essential to Its Creative Completeness
430. Lou Andreas-Salomé, the World’s First Woman Psychoanalyst, on Creativity and the Relationship Between the Mind and the Body, in Letters to Rilke
431. The Life of the Mind: Oliver Sacks’s 121 Formative and Favorite Books from a Lifetime of Reading
432. An Unassailable Serenity: Edith Wharton on Being at Home in Our Aloneness
433. Physicist and Writer Alan Lightman on the Shared Psychology of Creative Breakthrough in Art and Science
434. Freud on Why We Dream, the Paradoxical Interplay of Memory and Forgetting, and the Vital Vestiges Our Childhood Experiences Leave in Our Unconscious
435. James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing
436. What Depression Is Really Like
437. Elizabeth Bishop on Why Everyone Should Experience at Least One Long Period of Solitude in Life
438. How Mendeleev Invented His Periodic Table in a Dream
439. Strung Out In Heaven: Amanda Palmer on Patronage vs. Commerce, Art as Non-Ownable Nourishment, and the Story Behind Her Bowie String Quartet Tribute
440. Civil Rights Legend Rosa Parks on the Meaning of Life
441. French Philosopher and Political Activist Simone Weil on the Relationship Between Our Rights and Our Responsibilities
442. William S. Burroughs on Love
443. Patti Smith, Umberto Eco, and Other Celebrated Contemporary Authors Offer Their Advice to Aspiring Writers
444. Mendelssohn on Creative Integrity and the Highest Satisfaction for the Artist
445. James Joyce’s Love Letters
446. Madness and Genius: Cosmologist Janna Levin on the Vitalizing Power of Obsessiveness, from Newton to Einstein
447. Keats on the Joy of Singledom and How Solitude Opens Our Creative Channels to Truth and Beauty
448. Trailblazing Astronaut and Physicist Sally Ride in Conversation with Gloria Steinem About Gender in Science and How Lazy Media Portrayals Perpetuate Stereotypes
449. How Arthur Rackham’s 1907 Drawings for Alice in Wonderland Revolutionized the Carroll Classic, the Technology of Book Art, and the Economics of Illustration
450. The MoMA Cookbook: Vintage Recipes and Reflections on Food by Salvador Dalí, Louise Bourgeois, Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, and Other Great Artists
451. André Gide on Growing Happier as We Grow Older and Using Death as a Mobilizing Force for Creative Work
452. How to Treat the Symptoms of a Rising Reputation: David Hume on the Only Adequate Response to Haters
453. Mozart’s Daily Routine
454. Harvard Social Psychologist Amy Cuddy on Mastering the Antidote to Anxiety, Self-Consciousness, and Impostor Syndrome
455. Why We Write About Ourselves: Some of Today’s Most Celebrated Writers on the Art of Telling Personal Stories That Unravel Universal Truth
456. Iris Murdoch on the Fluidity of Gender and Sexuality: Her Intensely Beautiful Love Letters to Brigid Brophy
457. How You Spend Your Life: A Cinematic Sum of the Hours, Days, and Years Spent on Mundane Activities
458. How Aubrey Beardsley’s Visionary Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” Subverted Victorian Gender Norms and Revolutionized the Graphic Arts
459. Frida Kahlo on How Love Amplifies Beauty: Her Breathtaking Tribute to Diego Rivera
460. Why Can’t You Remember Your Future? Physicist Paul Davies on the Puzzlement of Why We Experience Time as Linear
461. Believe the Praiser and Dismiss the Praise: Donald Hall’s Advice on Writing
462. Einstein on Grief, Time, Eternity, and the Privilege of Old Age: His Beautiful Letter to the Bereaved Queen of Belgium
463. Maurice Sendak on Storytelling, Creativity, and the Eternal Child in Each of Us: His Marvelous Forgotten 1970 Conversation with Studs Terkel
464. The Psychology of What Makes a Great Story
465. Seamus Heaney’s Advice to the Young
466. Artist Anne Truitt on Vulnerability, the Price of Integrity, and What Sustains the Creative Spirit
467. Yoko Ono’s Playful and Philosophical Action-Poems About How to Live with Greater Attentiveness to the World
468. Cosmic Solitude: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on How the Prospect of Being Alone in the Universe Can Make Us Better Stewards of Our Humanity
469. Advice from My 80-Year-Old Self: An Artist’s Bittersweet Legacy of Real Wisdom from Strangers Ages 7 to 88
470. J.R.R. Tolkien Reads from The Lord of the Rings and Sings “Sam’s Rhyme of the Troll” in a Rare Recording
471. Galileo on Why We Read and How Books Give Us Superhuman Powers
472. Intuition of the Instant: French Philosopher Gaston Bachelard on Our Paradoxical Experience of Time
473. Whatever Happened to My Sister? An Assuring Illustrated Antidote to the Disorientation of Being a Teenager’s Younger Sibling
474. The Brownstone: A Lovely Vintage Children’s Book About Accommodating Each Other’s Differences by Trailblazing Graphic Designer Paula Scher
475. When Breath Becomes Air: A Young Neurosurgeon Examines the Meaning of Life as He Faces His Death
476. Julian Fellowes on the Paradox of Infatuation and How the Delicious Delusion of Lust Hijacks Our Experience of Love
477. Eternal Echoes: Irish Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on Belonging and How Our Restlessness Fuels Our Creativity
478. The Confidence Game: What Con Artists Reveal About the Psychology of Trust and Why Even the Most Rational of Us Are Susceptible to Deception
479. What Is an Emotion? William James’s Revolutionary 1884 Theory of How Our Bodies Affect Our Feelings
480. Kenny’s Window: Maurice Sendak’s Forgotten Philosophical Children’s Book About Love, Loneliness, and Knowing What You Really Want
481. The Swan and the Blue Sail: Patti Smith on the Creative Impulse and the Childhood Epiphany in Which She Knew She Was an Artist
482. Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on Human Dignity and the Nuanced Relationship Between Agency and Victimhood
483. Gwendolyn Brooks’s Trailblazing Vintage Poems for Kids, Celebrating Diversity and the Universal Spirit of Childhood
484. Donald Hall on Growing Old and Our Cultural Attitude Toward the Elderly
485. Beloved Poet and Philosopher Kahlil Gibran on the Seeming Self vs. the Authentic Self and the Liberating Madness of Casting Our Masks Aside
486. Something Deeply Hidden Behind Things: Einstein on Wonderment and the Nature of the Human Mind
487. Elevating Resolutions for the New Year Inspired by Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds
488. Hemingway’s Advice on Writing, Ambition, the Art of Revision, and His Reading List of Essential Books for Aspiring Writers
489. A Darkly Delightful 1905 Poem Celebrating Punctuation, Newly Illustrated in Silkscreened Typographic Art

2015

1. The Best of Brain Pickings 2015
2. The Problem of Shakespeare’s Sister: Virginia Woolf on Gender in Creative Culture
3. Albert Camus on Strength of Character and How to Ennoble Our Minds in Difficult Times
4. Hope in the Dark: Rebecca Solnit on the Redemptive Radiance of the World’s Invisible Revolutionaries
5. Kierkegaard on Ideals, Happiness, and the False Allure of the Extraordinary
6. A Nonbeliever’s Case for the Bible: How a Secular Reading of Scripture Enlarges Our Experience of Beauty, Morality, and Transcendence
7. The Lost Mariner: A Beautiful Animated Short Film About Memory, Inspired by Oliver Sacks
8. Genius at Play: A Brilliant Mathematician on Tinkering, Thinkering, and the Art of Being a Professional Nonunderstander
9. The 15 Best Books of 2015
10. Bob Dylan Reads “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”
11. A Cultural History of Santa: Margaret Mead’s Fictional Interview with the Jolly Gift-Giver Celebrating Generosity and the Universal Spirit of Giving
12. A Love Letter to Winter: Adam Gopnik’s Ardent Case for the Cold Season’s Splendor and Significance
13. Bruce Lee on Self-Actualization and the Crucial Difference Between Pride and Self-Esteem
14. The Outsider with the Public Voice: How Joan Didion Mirrored Us Back to Ourselves
15. Lessons on Love and Loss, Beauty and Terror, Control and Surrender from a Bird of Prey
16. A Year Without Mom: A Gorgeous Graphic Novel About Separation and Reunion, the End of Childhood, and the Tradeoffs of Happiness
17. A Different Kind of Progress: The Poetry and Philosophy of Rilke, Rumi, Mary Oliver, and Tagore, Set to Song
18. Jane Austen’s Advice on Love, Marriage, and How to Rebuff a Suitor with Clarity and Kindness
19. The Best Children’s Books of 2015
20. The Soul of an Octopus: How One of Earth’s Most Alien Creatures Illuminates the Wonders of Consciousness
21. Leo: A Ghost Story Subverting Cultural Stereotypes
22. Marilynne Robinson on the Humanities, the Limits of Neuroscience, and the Usefulness of the Soul as a Sensemaking Mechanism for Reality
23. Henry Beston on Whimsicality, the Limits of Knowledge, and What Science Is and Isn’t
24. The Best Science Books of 2015
25. Nikki Giovanni’s Wonderful Poems Celebrating Libraries and Librarians
26. The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
27. The Best Art Books of 2015
28. The Art of Discovering and Combining: Ada Lovelace on the Nature of the Imagination and Its Two Core Faculties
29. The Menino: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Mysterious and Mystifying Creature That Is a New Baby
30. James Thurber on Longing, Unrequited Love, and the Power of a Kiss
31. Willa Cather on Productivity vs. Creativity and the Life-Changing Advice That Made Her a Writer
32. Rilke on the Rewards of Reading and What Books Do for Our Inner Lives
33. Joseph Conrad on Art and What Makes a Great Writer, in a Beautiful Tribute to Henry James
34. Alexander von Humboldt and the Invention of Nature: How One of the Last True Polymaths Pioneered the Cosmos of Connections
35. Susan Orlean on the Strange Serendipities That Shape Our Lives
36. Hannah Arendt on Time, Space, and Where Our Thinking Ego Resides
37. Thomas Wolfe on Ambition, Gratitude, and the True Measure of Success, in Letters to His Mother
38. Love of Life: Albert Camus on Happiness, Despair, the Art of Awareness, and Why We Travel
39. Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: Harvard Physicist Lisa Randall on the Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
40. The Science of Why We Cry and the Three Types of Tears
41. Margaret Mead’s Beautiful Letter of Advice to Her Younger Sister on Starting a Family in an Uncertain World
42. The Art of Self-Culture and the Crucial Difference Between Being Educated and Being Cultured: John Cowper Powys’s Forgotten Wisdom from 1929
43. How the Clouds Got Their Names
44. The Intelligence of Emotions: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How Storytelling Rewires Us and Why Befriending Our Neediness Is Essential for Happiness
45. The Silent Friends: A Beautiful Short Film Celebrating Our Abiding Bond with Trees
46. Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, the Measure of Living, and the Dignity of Dying
47. We’re Breaking Up: Rebecca Solnit on How Modern Noncommunication Is Changing Our Experience of Time, Solitude, and Communion
48. Tchaikovsky on Depression and Finding Beauty Amid the Wreckage of the Soul
49. James Baldwin and Margaret Mead on Religion
50. The Still Point of the Turning World: T.S. Eliot Reads His Timeless Ode to the Nature of Time in a Rare Recording
51. Henry Beston’s Beautiful 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Humanity by Breaking the Tyranny of Technology and Relearning to Be Nurtured by Nature
52. Marcus Aurelius on Mortality and the Key to Living Fully
53. Gustav Mahler’s Love Letters to His Wife
54. What Higher Consciousness Really Means, How We Attain It, and What It Does for the Human Spirit
55. Men, Women, and Our Limiting Mythology of Success
56. Norman Rockwell’s Rare Illustrations for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
57. Ray Bradbury Reads His Poem “If Only We Had Taller Been” in a Rare 1971 Recording
58. Tallulah Bankhead Reads “A Telephone Call,” Dorothy Parker’s Brilliant Satire of How Infatuation Drives Us Mad
59. Keep the Keyhole Clean: Kafka on Appearance vs. Reality and How the Media Commodify Truth
60. The Tiger Who Would Be King: James Thurber’s Poignant 1927 Parable of the Destructive Hunger for Power, Reimagined in Stunning New Illustrations
61. Adam Gopnik on Darwin’s Brilliant Strategy for Preempting Criticism and the True Mark of Genius
62. Cézanne’s Only Known Love Letter
63. Thunder & Lightning: An Extraordinary Illustrated Celebration of the Weather and Its Role in the Human Experience
64. Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost NYU Lecture on What It Takes to Be a Writer, Animated
65. Nicole Krauss’s Beautiful Letter to Van Gogh on Fear, Bravery, and How to Break the Loop of Our Destructive Patterns
66. Carl Sagan on Humility, Science as a Tool of Democracy, and the Value of Uncertainty
67. Ursula K. Le Guin on the Sacredness of Public Libraries
68. David Foster Wallace on Why You Should Use a Dictionary, How to Write a Great Opener, and the Measure of Good Writing
69. The Great French Artist Eugène Delacroix on Self-Doubt, Idea-Ambivalence, and the Cure for Procrastination
70. The Yin-Yang of Fortune and Misfortune: Alan Watts on the Art of Learning Not to Think in Terms of Gain and Loss
71. Sex Is a Funny Word: An Intelligent and Inclusive Illustrated Primer on Sexuality
72. The Quiet Noisy Book: A Little-Known Vintage Gem by Margaret Wise Brown
73. Charles M. Schulz, Civil Rights, and the Previously Unseen Art of Peanuts
74. Vincent van Gogh on Fear, Taking Risks, and How Making Inspired Mistakes Moves Us Forward
75. Order, Disorder, and Oneself: French Polymath Paul Valéry on How to Never Misplace Anything
76. Patti Smith on the Two Kinds of Masterpieces and Her Fifty Favorite Books
77. The Tea Party in the Woods: A Tender Modernist Fairy Tale by Japanese Artist Akiko Miyakoshi
78. Beloved Dog: Maira Kalman’s Illustrated Love Letter to Our Canine Companions
79. Philosopher Erich Fromm on the Art of Loving and What Is Keeping Us from Mastering It
80. The Poetics of Smell as a Mode of Knowledge
81. David Hume on Human Nature, the Myth of Selfishness, and Why Vanity Is Proof of Virtue Rather Than Vice
82. Gloria Steinem on the Road as a Medium of Listening in a Culture Deafened by Speaking
83. Sylvia Plath on Privilege, Free Will, and What Makes Us Who We Are
84. How Sitting Is Harming Your Body and What You Can Do to Counter Its Perils
85. Philosopher Alain Badiou on How We Fall and Stay in Love
86. 9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings
87. Kafka on Love and Patience
88. The 12th-Century Jewish Philosopher Moses Maimonides on Truth, Doubt, and How to Read Intelligently
89. A New and Sweeping Utopia of Life: Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
90. Ben Hecht on Greatness, the Radiance of Realness, and the Rewards of Keeping in Touch with the Soul of Your Childhood
91. The Art of Not-Having-to-Ask, from Buddhist Monks to Amanda Palmer by Way of Thoreau
92. Mary Oliver on Love and Its Necessary Wildness
93. Physicist Lisa Randall on the Sublime and the Crucial Differences Between How Art, Science, and Religion Explain the Universe
94. Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation
95. John Dewey on How to Find Your Calling, the Key to a Fulfilling Vocation, and Why Diverse Interests Are Essential for Excellence in Any Field
96. Harry Clarke’s Beautiful and Haunting 1925 Illustrations for Goethe’s Faust
97. Patti Smith on Time, Transformation, and How the Radiance of Love Redeems the Rupture of Loss
98. Trailblazing Astronomer Vera Rubin on Obsessiveness, Minimizing Obstacles, and How the Thrill of Accidental Discovery Redeems the Terror of Uncertainty
99. Italo Calvino on Photography and the Art of Presence
100. How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love
101. Nietzsche on the Journey of Becoming and What It Means to Be a Free Spirit
102. Louis I, King of the Sheep: An Illustrated Parable of How Power Changes Those in Power
103. Hannah Arendt on Being vs. Appearing and Our Impulse for Self-Display
104. The Gentle Giant: Oliver Sacks and the Art of Choosing Empathy Over Vengeance
105. Immortal Beloved: Beethoven’s Passionate Love Letters
106. John Steinbeck’s Prophetic Dream About How the Commercial Media Machine Is Killing Creative Culture
107. What to Think About Machines That Think: Leading Thinkers on Artificial Intelligence and What It Means to Be Human
108. John Lennon’s Impassioned Letters on the Value of Meditation
109. How to Disagree: Amin Maalouf on the Key to Intelligent Dissent and Effective Criticism
110. Galileo on Critical Thinking and the Folly of Believing Our Preconceptions
111. Know Your Clouds: A 1966 Animated Morphology of the Skies
112. The Transfiguration of Aloneness: David Whyte on Longing and Silence
113. Stress and the Social Self: How Relationships Affect Our Immune System
114. Alice Walker on What Her Father Taught Her About Lying and the Love-Expanding Capacity of Telling the Truth
115. How a Zen Master Responds to Hate Mail
116. Psychologist Barry Schwartz on What Motivates Us to Work, Why Incentives Fail, and How Our Ideas About Human Nature Shape Who We Become
117. Martha Graham on the Life-Force of Creativity and the Divine Dissatisfaction of Being an Artist
118. Why We Fall in Love: The Paradoxical Psychology of Romance and Why Frustration Is Necessary for Satisfaction
119. Virginia Woolf on the Past and How to Live More Fully in the Present
120. Gustave Doré’s Hauntingly Beautiful Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno
121. Pioneering Psychologist Jerome Bruner on the Act of Discovery and the Key to True Learning
122. For Seamus: A Cinematic Homage to Beloved Poet Seamus Heaney
123. The Science of Why We Sleep and What Happens Inside Our Brains When We Do
124. Nietzsche on How to Find Yourself and the True Value of Education
125. Physicist David Bohm and Philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti on Love, Intelligence, and How to Transcend the Wall of Being
126. Uncertainty and Our Search for Meaning: Legendary Psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom on How We Glean Our Sense of Purpose
127. The Five Life-Stages of Happiness: How Our Definition of Contentment Changes Over the Course of Our Lifetime
128. Barbara Walters on How to Be There for the Newly Bereaved and Heartbroken
129. Big Magic: Elizabeth Gilbert on Creative Courage and the Art of Living in a State of Uninterrupted Marvel
130. The Mountain View of the Mind: Simone Weil on the Purest and Most Fertile Form of Thought
131. William Faulkner on Beginner’s Mind and the Mystique of the Muse
132. A State of Wonder: Margaret Atwood on How Technology Shapes Storytelling While Obeying Its Eternal Constants
133. Trailblazing Physicist David Bohm and Buddhist Monk Matthieu Ricard on How We Shape What We Call Reality
134. John O’Donohue on Beauty, Why We Fall in Love, and How the Life-Force of Desire Vitalizes Us
135. Nietzsche on the Power of Music
136. Michael Faraday on Mental Discipline and How to Cure Our Propensity for Self-Deception
137. The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
138. The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Purrless Her Cat: A Sweet Vintage Parable of Loneliness, Love, and Letting Go
139. I Work Like a Gardener: Joan Miró on Art, Motionless Movement, and the Proper Pace of Creative Labor
140. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Reimagined in Beautiful Illustrations by Artist Andrea D’Aquino
141. John Cage on Human Nature, Constructive Anarchy, and How Silence Helps Us Amplify Each Other’s Goodness
142. Mister and Lady Day: The Illustrated Story of Billie Holiday and the Dog Who Loved Her
143. Thoreau on How Silence Ennobles Speech and the Ideal Space for Conversation
144. Poet Jane Kenyon’s Advice on Writing: Some of the Wisest Words to Create and Live By
145. Pride, Prejudice, and the Provisions of Privilege: Margo Jefferson on Race, Depression, and How We Define Ourselves
146. The Rise of Networkism: A Visual History of Human Knowledge, from Aristotle to the Algorithm
147. Work and Pleasure: Theodor Adorno on the Psychology of “Gadgeteering” and How the Cult of Efficiency Limits Our Happiness
148. Infinity and Me: A Lovely Picture-Book at the Nexus of Science, Philosophy, and Love
149. Oliver Sacks on 9/11 and the Paradoxical Power of Music to Bring Solace by Making Room for Our Pain
150. Jared Diamond on the Root of Inequality and How the Mixed Blessings of “Civilization” Warped Our Relationship to Daily Risk
151. Mary Oliver on How Differences Bring Couples Closer Together
152. Virginia Woolf on Why She Became a Writer and the Shock-Receiving Capacity Necessary for Being an Artist
153. Why Some People Are Left-Handed
154. Patti Smith on Prayer, the Love of Books, and How Illness Expands the Field of Creative Awareness
155. Janis Joplin on Music, Emotion, and the Courage to Be Oneself: A 1968 Conversation with Studs Terkel
156. Parker Palmer on Education as a Spiritual Practice
157. The New Age of Wonder: Freeman Dyson on the Future of Science and Why Biologists Are the New Poets
158. Tiny Creatures: The Marvelous World of Microbes, in an Illustrated Children’s Book
159. Bruce Lee on the Power of Repose and the Strength of Yielding
160. Grace Paley on the Art of Growing Older
161. Rising Strong: Brené Brown on the Physics of Vulnerability and What Resilient People Have in Common
162. David Byrne’s Lending Library
163. Lucille Clifton Reads “Won’t You Celebrate With Me”
164. Love, Kindness, and the Song of the Universe: The Night Jack Kerouac Kept a Young Woman from Taking Her Own Life
165. Goethe on Beginner’s Mind and the Discipline of Discernment in Your Media Diet
166. The Silent Music of the Mind: Remembering Oliver Sacks
167. The American Scholar: Emerson’s Superb Speech on the Life of the Mind, the Art of Creative Reading, and the Building Blocks of Genius
168. The Iron Giant: The 1968 Classic Celebrating Humanity’s Capacity for Harmony, Reimagined in Gorgeous Illustrations by Artist Laura Carlin
169. Hegel on Knowledge, Impatience, the Peril of Fixed Opinions, and the True Task of the Human Mind
170. A Splendid Definition of Happiness by Willa Cather
171. Michael Rosen’s Sad Book: A Beautiful Anatomy of Loss, Illustrated by Quentin Blake
172. Amanda Palmer’s Extraordinary BBC Open Letter on the Choice to Have a Child as a Working Artist
173. Mad About Monkeys: A Loving Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weird and Wonderful Kindred Creatures
174. August 25, 1944: Picasso, the Liberation of Paris, and the Meaning of Heroism
175. Borges on Public Opinion, Literature vs. the Other Arts, and the True Measure of Success
176. Simone Weil on the Paradox of Friendship and Separation
177. Three Animators Bring to Life Three Beautiful Readings of Walt Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider”
178. Every Person in New York, Illustrated
179. Buckminster Fuller’s Brilliant Metaphor for the Greatest Key to Transformation and Growth
180. The Genes of the Soul: Amin Maalouf on Belonging, Conflict, and How We Inhabit Our Identity
181. A Six-Year-Old’s Advice on Life and Overcoming Fear, Turned into a Heartwarming Movie
182. The Rabbit Box: A Most Unusual Vintage Children’s Book for Grownups Celebrating the Mystery of Life and the Magic of Falling in Love
183. An Illustrated Tour of New York City from a Dog’s Point of View
184. Simone Weil on Attention and Grace
185. The Inner Light of Creativity: Vivian Gornick on How You Blossom into Being an Artist
186. Louise Bourgeois on Art, Integrity, the Trap of False Humility, and the Key to Creative Confidence
187. In Praise of Missing Out: Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on the Paradoxical Value of Our Unlived Lives
188. Vacation and the Art of Presence: Anaïs Nin on How to Truly Unplug and Reconnect with Your Senses
189. How to Begin Each Day: A Recipe for Unshakable Sanity and Inner Peace from Marcus Aurelius
190. Micromegas: Voltaire’s Trailblazing Sci-Fi Philosophical Homage to Newton and the Human Condition, in a Rare Vintage Children’s Book
191. Marianne Moore and the Crowning Curio: How a Poem Saved One of the World’s Rarest and Most Majestic Trees
192. Sylvia Plath’s First Job: How the Beloved Poet’s Formative Experience as a Farm Worker Shaped Her Writing
193. Anam Cara and the Essence of True Friendship: Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on the Beautiful Ancient Celtic Notion of Soul-Friend
194. Nikki Giovanni on What Amoebae Know About Love
195. The Little Gardener: A Tender Illustrated Parable of Purpose and the Power of Working with Love
196. Design and Violence: An Intelligent Invitation to Nuanced Discourse in a Culture of Black-and-White Binaries
197. Leisure, the Basis of Culture: An Obscure German Philosopher’s Timely 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in a Culture of Workaholism
198. The Six Pillars of the Wholehearted Life: Parker Palmer’s Spectacular Naropa University Commencement Address
199. If Librarians Were Honest
200. Diane Ackerman on the Secret Life of the Senses and the Measure of Our Aliveness
201. Gustave Doré’s Hauntingly Beautiful 1883 Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”
202. Oliver Button Is a Sissy: A Sweet Vintage Celebration of Difference and the Courage to Withstand Stereotypes
203. Tolkien Reads from The Hobbit in Rare Archival Audio from His First Encounter with a Tape Recorder
204. Neil Armstrong’s Heartbeat and the Sound of Venus in a Beautiful Cover of Lennon’s “Oh My Love”
205. Nobel Laureate André Gide on What It Really Means to Be Original and Goethe’s Paradoxical Model of Creativity
206. Simone Weil on True Genius and the Crushing Illusion of Inferiority
207. Bukowski on Writing, Art, and the Courage to Create Outside Society’s Forms of Approval
208. Blair Sets Emily Dickinson’s “Farewell” to Song Shortly Before His Death
209. Two Nine-Year-Olds’ Magnificent Open Letter to Disney About Racial and Gender Stereotypes
210. Michelangelo on Struggle and Creative Integrity
211. Neil Gaiman’s Philosophical Dream, in a Whimsical Animation Narrated by Amanda Palmer
212. Hunter S. Thompson on Violence, Vengeance, and the Only True Fix for Our Destructive Impulses
213. What Pet Should I Get? Dr. Seuss’s Previously Unseen Illustrated Wink at the Paradox of Choice and the Fear of Missing Out
214. Art as a Form of Active Prayer and What Writers Really Labor For
215. Elizabeth Alexander on What Poetry Does for the Human Spirit
216. Beatrix Potter, Mycologist: The Beloved Children’s Book Author’s Little-Known Scientific Studies and Illustrations of Mushrooms
217. Albert Einstein’s Love Letters
218. A Zen Master Explains Life and Death to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind
219. Robert Graves on Love and Lust
220. The World We Live In: An Extraordinary Reality-Check
221. Amelia Earhart on Sticking Up for Yourself, in a Remarkable Letter of Advice to Her Younger Sister
222. How Naming Confers Dignity Upon Life and Gives Meaning to Existence
223. The Rebellious and Revolutionary Life of Galileo, Illustrated
224. An Illustrated Meditation on Memory and Its Imperfections, Inspired by Borges
225. Neuroscientist Sam Harris Selects 12 Books Everyone Should Read
226. Aldous Huxley on How You Become Who You Are, How to Get Out of Your Own Way, and the Necessity of Mind-Body Education
227. Toni Morrison on How to Be Your Own Story and Reap the Rewards of Adulthood in a Culture That Fetishizes Youth
228. The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and Disease
229. The Most Beautiful Illustrations from 200 Years of Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
230. The Paradox of Identical Twins and What It Reveals About the Psychology of Personal Identity and Celebrity Culture
231. The Science of How the Universe Will End, in a Poetic Animation
232. The Illustrated Life of Trailblazing Journalist Nellie Bly, Who Paved the Way for Women in Media
233. Umberto Eco’s Advice to Writers
234. 35-Year-Old Emerson’s Extraordinary Harvard Divinity School Address on the Divine Transcendence of Nature
235. Beloved Poet Nikki Giovanni on Love, Friendship, and Loneliness
236. Little Red Riding Hood, Reimagined in Beautiful Laser-Cut Illustrations
237. Wild Ideas: The Creative Problem-Solving Strategies of Different Animals, in Illustrated Dioramas
238. How a Dream Came True: Young Jane Goodall’s Exuberant Letters and Diary Entries from Africa
239. How Kindness Became Our Forbidden Pleasure
240. Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Transcendence of the Universe, Adapted in Jazz for Kids Based on “Saint James Infirmary”
241. When Woman Is Boss: Nikola Tesla on Gender Equality and How Technology Will Unleash Women’s True Potential
242. Musicked Down the Mountain: How Oliver Sacks Saved His Own Life by Literature and Song
243. Mr. Gauguin’s Heart: The Beautiful and Bittersweet True Story of How Paul Gauguin Became an Artist
244. Art and the Mind’s Eye: How Drawing Trains You to See the World More Clearly and to Live with a Deeper Sense of Presence
245. Flannery O’Connor on Art, Integrity, and the Writer’s Responsibility to His or Her Talent
246. Why the Sky Enchants Us: Our Longing for Transcendence and How Myths Elevate Human Life
247. How the Clouds Got Their Names and How Goethe Popularized Them with His Science-Inspired Poems
248. The Aesthetic of Silence: Susan Sontag on Art as a Form of Spirituality and the Paradoxical Role of Silence in Creative Culture
249. A Living Obituary: Faulkner’s Beautiful Epitaph for Himself
250. Declaration of the Independence of the Mind: An Extraordinary 1919 Manifesto Signed by Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Jane Addams, and Other Luminaries
251. The Art of Biophilia: Extraordinary Mosaics Incorporating Earth’s Most Colorful Creatures
252. Teenage Sylvia Plath’s First Tragic Poem, with a Touching Remembrance by Her Mother
253. The Central Mystery of Quantum Mechanics, Animated
254. Amanda Palmer Reads Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska’s Poem “Life While-You-Wait”
255. An Experiment in Love: Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Six Pillars of Nonviolent Resistance and the Ancient Greek Notion of ‘Agape’
256. The Magic Box: A Whimsical Vintage Children’s Book for Grownups About Life, Death, and How To Be More Alive Every Day
257. Thomas Mann’s Moving Tribute for His Dear Friend Hermann Hesse’s Sixtieth Birthday
258. Legendary Victorian Art Critic John Ruskin on the Value of Imperfection and How Manual Labor Confers Dignity Upon Creative Work
259. The Art of Constructive Criticism: Trailblazing Feminist Margaret Fuller Rejects Young Thoreau and Helps Him Improve His Writing
260. Joseph Campbell on Why Perfectionism Kills Love and the Pathway to Bliss in Romantic Relationships
261. Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Belonging and How to Be at Home in Yourself
262. Where Children Play: Photographs of Playgrounds Around the World
263. The Value of Not Understanding Everything: Grace Paley’s Advice to Aspiring Writers
264. Emerson on What Beauty Really Means, How to Cultivate Its True Hallmarks, and Why It Bewitches the Human Imagination
265. Proust on What Art Does for the Soul and How to Stop Letting Habit Blunt Our Aliveness
266. The One That Got Away: The Bittersweet Story of George Orwell and His Childhood Sweetheart
267. The John Lennon Sketchbook: A Weird and Wonderful Vintage Animated Film About the Beloved Beatle’s Life, Music, and Philosophy
268. Why Dogs Have Wet Noses: An Irreverent Illustrated Reimagining of Noah’s Ark
269. Simone Weil on Science, Quantum Theory, and Our Spiritual Values
270. Beloved Composer Leonard Bernstein on the Importance of Believing in Each Other and How Art Fortifies Our Mutual Dignity
271. John Waters’s Spectacular RISD Commencement Address on Creative Rebellion and the Artist’s Task to Cause Constructive Chaos
272. Welcome, Stranger, To This Place: William Blake Set to Song
273. Oliver Sacks on Storytelling, the Curious Psychology of Writing, and What His Poet Friend Taught Him About the Nature of Creativity
274. Desert Solitaire: An Uncommonly Beautiful Love Letter to Solitude and the Spiritual Rewards of Getting Lost
275. How to Own Your Story: Vivian Gornick on the Art of Personal Narrative and Nuanced Storytelling
276. Blaise Pascal on the Intuitive vs. the Logical Mind and How We Come to Know Truth
277. Pool: A Tender Illustrated Celebration of Quiet Curiosity and How We Find Our Kindred Spirits
278. Our Luminous Humanity: What Earth’s Nocturnal Selfie from Space Reveals About Who We Are
279. A Stop-Motion Love Letter to the Power of Curiosity
280. MoMA Acquires the Rainbow Flag as a Design Icon: A Conversation with the Artist Who Made It
281. Legendary Designer Charles Eames on Creativity, the Value of the Arts in Education, and His Advice to Students
282. Neil Gaiman on How Stories Last
283. Adam Smith’s Underappreciated Wisdom on Benevolence, Happiness, and Kindness
284. How Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage Invented the World’s First Computer: An Illustrated Adventure in Footnotes and Friendship
285. Elizabeth Gilbert on Inspiration, What Tom Waits Taught Her About Creativity, and the Most Dangerous Myth for Artists to Believe
286. The Subterranean River of Emotion: Cheryl Strayed on Writing, the Art of Living with Opposing Truths, and the Three Ancient Motifs in All Great Storytelling
287. William James on the Psychology of the Second Wind and What Enables Us to Transcend Our Limits
288. Einstein’s Divorce Agreement and the Nuanced Messiness of the Human Heart
289. 24-Year-Old William Styron on Happiness, Presence, and the True Measure of Maturity, in a Letter to His Father
290. The Blue Whale: A Loving Science Lullaby for Our Planet’s Largest-Hearted Creature
291. Oliver Jeffers on the Paradox of Ownership and the Allure of Duality
292. What Trees Teach Us About Human Nature, Relationships, and the Secret to Lasting Love: Wisdom from a 17th-Century Gardener
293. Saul Bellow’s Spectacular Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech on How Art and Literature Ennoble the Human Spirit
294. The Dalai Lama’s Daily Routine and Information Diet
295. On Being Too Much for Ourselves: Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on Balance and the Necessary Excesses of Life
296. Love, Forgiveness, the Pride of the Protest, and What Makes a Compelling Heroine: Dostoyevsky’s Beautiful Eulogy for George Sand
297. The Value of a Compassionate Lie
298. The Beauty of Uncertainty: How Heisenberg Invented Quantum Mechanics, Told in Jazz
299. Teenage Sylvia Plath’s Letters to Her Mother on the Joy of Living and Writing as Salvation and Sustenance for the Spirit
300. The Big Green Book: Robert Graves and Maurice Sendak’s Little-Known and Lovely Vintage Children’s Book About the Magic of Reading
301. In Praise of Darkness: Henry Beston on How the Beauty of Night Nourishes the Human Spirit
302. I, Pencil: A Brilliant Vintage Allegory of How Everything Is Connected
303. The Boy Who Loved Math: The Illustrated Story of Eccentric Genius and Lovable Oddball Paul Erdős
304. Wanderlust: Rebecca Solnit on How Walking Vitalizes the Meanderings of the Mind
305. The Midwifery of Creativity: Denise Levertov on How Great Works of Art Are Born
306. The Light of the World: Elizabeth Alexander on Love, Loss, and the Boundaries of the Soul
307. Gaston Bachelard on the Meditative Magic of Housework and How It Increases the Human Dignity of Everyday Objects
308. Rothko on Beauty, Friendship, and How the Emotional Exaltation of Art Mirrors Human Relationships
309. Consider the Octopus: A Little Boy’s Moving Case Against Eating Animals
310. The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, Reimagined in Uncommonly Soulful Illustrations by Austrian Artist Lisbeth Zwerger
311. Gorgeous 19th-Century Illustrations of Owls and Ospreys
312. Keeping Quiet: Sylvia Boorstein Reads Pablo Neruda’s Beautiful Ode to Silence
313. In Praise of Shadows: Ancient Japanese Aesthetics and Why Every Technology Is a Technology of Thought
314. The Art of Science Communication: William Zinsser on How to Write Well About Science
315. The Power of Unconditional Love: How Oliver Sacks’s Beloved Aunt Shaped His Life and Inspired His Courageous Dance with Death
316. An Animating Presence: Dani Shapiro on the Quest for a Connected Consciousness
317. A Biologist-Turned-Buddhist and His Philosopher Father on the Nature of the Self and the True Measure of Personal Strength
318. Emerson on Small Mercies, the True Measure of Wisdom, and How to Live with Maximum Aliveness
319. The Brothers Grimm in Three Transcendent Dimensions: Shaun Tan’s Breathtaking Sculptural Illustrations for the Beloved Tales
320. Body, Soul, and the Elusive Seedbed of Our Identity: Lewis Carroll on the Material and Immaterial Forces of Life, in a Letter to a Little Girl
321. Montaigne on “Curation,” the Illusion of Originality, and How We Form Our Opinions
322. Spineless: Susan Middleton’s Mesmerizing Photographs of Marine Invertebrates
323. Project 1 in 4: Drawings Illuminating the Everyday Realities of Life with Mental Illness
324. Anne Sexton’s Sensual Love Poem “Song for a Lady,” in an Animation Inspired by Oliver Sacks
325. How to Change Minds: Blaise Pascal on the Art of Persuasion
326. Beware the Rise of the Pseudo-Intellectual: Tom Wolfe’s Boston University Commencement Address
327. Love, Lunacy, and a Life Fully Lived: Oliver Sacks, the Science of Seeing, and the Art of Being Seen
328. Arts of the Possible: Adrienne Rich on Writing, Capitalism, Freedom, and How Silence Fertilizes the Human Imagination
329. Bertrand Russell on Love, Sex, What “the Good Life” Really Means, and How We Limit Our Happiness
330. Nine Podcasts for a Fuller Life
331. Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means
332. The Diffusion of Useful Ignorance: Thoreau on the Hubris of Our Knowledge and the Transcendent Humility of Not-Knowing
333. Charlotte Brontë on Faith and Atheism
334. Ralph Steadman’s Rare and Rapturous Illustrations for Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”
335. The Heart and the Bottle: A Tender Illustrated Fable of What Happens When We Deny Our Difficult Emotions
336. The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us About the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All Scales
337. From Dream to Nightmare: John Steinbeck on the Perils of Publicity and the Dark Side of Success
338. Bright Sky, Starry City: An Illustrated Love Letter to Our Communion with the Cosmos, Celebrating Women Astronomers
339. Richard Feynman on Science vs. Religion and Why Uncertainty Is Central to Morality
340. Wendell Berry on How to Be a Poet and a Complete Human Being
341. How to Make Use of Our Suffering: Simone Weil on Ameliorating Our Experience of Pain, Hunger, Fatigue, and All That Makes the Soul Cry
342. Celebrated Writers on the Culturally Controversial Choice Not to Have Children
343. The Encounter: How Young Vladimir Nabokov Met the Love of His Life and Won Her Over with a Poem
344. Ray Bradbury on Storytelling, Friendship, and Why He Never Learned to Drive: A Lost Vintage Interview, Found and Animated
345. Dante and the Eternal Quest for Nonreligious Divinity: Physicist Margaret Wertheim on Science and God
346. A Lovely Illustrated Children’s Book Celebrating Trailblazing Jazz Pianist and Composer Mary Lou Williams
347. Einstein, Gödel, and Our Strange Experience of Time: Rebecca Goldstein on How Relativity Rattled the Flow of Existence
348. James Baldwin and Margaret Mead on Reimagining Democracy for a Post-Consumerist Culture
349. The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning: The Extraordinary Edible Record of Two Women Explorers’ Journey to the End of the World
350. The Crossroads of Should and Must: An Intelligent Illustrated Field Guide to Finding Your Bliss
351. Virginia Woolf on the Elasticity of Time
352. Kierkegaard on Popular Opinion, the Petty Jealousies of Criticism, and the Only Cure for Embitterment in Creative Work
353. The Great Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on How to Do “Hugging Meditation”
354. Love Is Love: Maria Bello on Resisting the Labels We Are Given and Redefining Those We Give Ourselves
355. JFK on Poetry, Power, and the Artist’s Role in Society: His Eulogy for Robert Frost, One of the Greatest Speeches of All Time
356. E.B. White on Creativity and the Two Sides of Discipline
357. An Adventure in Paris with Pussy and Lovey: Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein Become Babysitters
358. Our Microbes, Ourselves: How the Trillions of Tiny Organisms Living Inside Us Are Redefining What It Means to Be Human
359. The Miraculous in the Mundane: Annie Dillard on Reclaiming Our Capacity for Joy and Wonder
360. David Whyte on the True Meaning of Friendship, Love, and Heartbreak
361. Where the Wild Things Really Are: Maurice Sendak Illustrates the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
362. Delacroix’s Rare Illustrations for Goethe’s Faust
363. Einstein on the Common Language of Science in a Rare 1941 Recording
364. What Makes a Hero: Joseph Campbell’s Seminal Monomyth Model for the Eleven Stages of the Hero’s Journey, Animated
365. The Workhorse and the Butterfly: Ann Patchett on Writing and Why Self-Forgiveness Is the Most Important Ingredient of Great Art
366. Turning Trauma into Power: Marina Abramović on How Her Harrowing Childhood Became the Raw Material for Her Art
367. This I Believe: Thomas Mann on Time and the Meaning of Our Existence
368. Tell Me What to Dream About: An Illustrated Ode to Where We Go When We Go to Sleep
369. Beastly Verse: From Lewis Carroll to William Blake, Beloved Poems About Animals in Vibrant and Unusual Illustrations
370. What Power Really Means: Cheryl Strayed Reads Adrienne Rich’s Homage to Marie Curie
371. Thoreau on the Sacredness of Libraries and His Ideal Sanctuary for Books
372. Wendell Berry on the Grandeur of Small Places and the Perils of Our “Rugged Individualism”
373. The Road to Character: David Brooks on the Art of Stumbling, “Résumé Virtues” vs. “Eulogy Virtues,” and the Humility Code of Living a Meaningful Life
374. Love After Love: Derek Walcott’s Poetic Ode to Being at Home in Ourselves
375. The Virtues of a Wandering Heart: How External Crushes Fortify Your Relationship
376. Charlotte Brontë’s Beautiful and Heartbreaking Love Letters of Unrequited Affection
377. North Brother Island: Haunting Photographs of the Last Unknown Place in New York City
378. The Sea: A Sweet Wordless Story about Pursuit and Surrender, Dread and Desire, Disappointment and Triumph
379. Young Delacroix on the Importance of Solitude in Creative Work and How to Resist Social Distractions
380. A Questionnaire for the Immodest and Curious: Clever Puzzles, Riddles, and Word Games from Nabokov’s Love Letters to His Wife
381. Creation: Ancient Indian Origin Myths, Brought to Life in a Breathtaking Illustrated Cosmogony
382. The Storm Whale: A Tender Illustrated Story of Loneliness, Loss, Single-Parenting, and the Redemptive Power of Love
383. Thinking with Animals: From Aesop to Darwin to YouTube
384. Virginia Woolf on Why the Best Mind Is the Androgynous Mind
385. How We Elevate Each Other: Viktor Frankl on the Human Spirit and Why Idealism Is the Best Realism
386. Chinua Achebe Reads His Little-Known Poems
387. Creative Courage for Young Hearts: 15 Emboldening Picture Books Celebrating the Lives of Great Artists, Writers, and Scientists
388. Outstanding in the Rain: A Die-Cut Adventure in Words and Meaning
389. The Art of Motherfuckitude: Cheryl Strayed’s Advice to an Aspiring Writer on Faith and Humility
390. The Power of One True Believer: Samuel Beckett’s Beautiful Homage to His Greatest Champion
391. Change the Narrative, Change Your Destiny: How James Baldwin Read His Way Out of Harlem and into Literary Greatness
392. The Illustrated Story of Harvey Milk, Humanitarian Martyr for Love
393. John Steinbeck’s Pen: How the Joy of Handwriting Helps Us Draft the Meaning of Life
394. How Do You Know You Exist? A Mind-Bending Animated Homage to Descartes Exploring the Conundrum of Reality
395. How to Find Your Bliss: Joseph Campbell on What It Takes to Have a Fulfilling Life
396. The Power of Aesthetic Force: Anna Deavere Smith and Sarah Lewis on Beauty as a Tool of Justice and a Catalyst for “Nonselfing”
397. Stunning Cyanotypes of Sea Algae by the Self-Taught Victorian Botanist Anna Atkins, the First Woman Photographer and a Pioneer of Scientific Illustration
398. Simone Weil on Temptation, the Key to Discipline, and How to Be a Complete Human Being
399. Richard Feynman on How His Father Taught Him about What Is Most Important
400. Hurry Up and Wait: Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman’s Whimsical Children’s Book for Grownups about Presence in the Age of Productivity
401. Gabriel García Márquez’s Formative Reading List: 24 Books That Shaped One of Humanity’s Greatest Writers
402. When Leaving Becomes Arriving: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Ending Relationships
403. Teenage James Joyce’s Beautiful Letter to Ibsen, His Great Hero
404. Grandmother’s Glass Eye: Elizabeth Bishop on How Poetry Pretends Life into Reality
405. How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing”
406. R. Crumb Illustrates Kafka
407. Ongoingness: Sarah Manguso on Time, Memory, Beginnings and Endings, and the True Measure of Aliveness
408. How Music Heals the Soul: A Beautiful Conversation with Singer-Songwriter and Peace Activist Morley
409. Enormous Smallness: The Sweet Illustrated Story of E. E. Cummings and His Creative Bravery
410. A Seizure of Happiness: Mary Oliver on Finding Magic in Life’s Unremarkable Moments
411. Margaret Mead and James Baldwin on Identity, Race, the Immigrant Experience, and Why the “Melting Pot” Is a Problematic Metaphor
412. Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Moral Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers
413. Why Consciousness Exists: Douglas Rushkoff on Science, God, and the Purpose of Reality
414. Sense of Nonsense: Alan Watts on How We Find Meaning by Surrendering to Meaninglessness
415. Viva Frida: A Beautiful and Unusual Children’s Book Celebrating Frida Kahlo’s Story and Spirit
416. Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
417. Consolation for Life’s Darkest Hours: 7 Unusual and Wonderful Books that Help Children Grieve and Make Sense of Death
418. Reinventing the Secular Sermon: Remarkable Commencement Addresses by Nora Ephron, David Foster Wallace, Ira Glass, and More
419. Jane Goodall Tells Her Remarkable Life-Story, Animated
420. Better than Before: A Psychological Field Guide to Harnessing the Transformative Power of Habit
421. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Animated: History’s Greatest Parable Exploring the Nature of Reality
422. The Illustrated Story of Persian Polymath Ibn Sina and How He Shaped the Course of Medicine
423. A Rap on Race: Margaret Mead and James Baldwin’s Rare Conversation on Forgiveness and the Difference Between Guilt and Responsibility
424. Thoreau on What It Really Means to Be Awake
425. Dear Data: Two Designers Visualize the Mundane Details of Daily Life in Magical Illustrated Postcards Mailed Across the Atlantic
426. Amanda Palmer Reads Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska’s Glorious Poem “Possibilities”
427. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Justice and the Four Steps to Successful Nonviolent Resistance
428. Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer on Freedom and What Status Really Means for a Writer
429. In Defense of Boredom: 200 Years of Ideas on the Virtues of Not-Doing from Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds
430. Sidewalk Flowers: An Illustrated Ode to Presence and the Everyday Art of Noticing in a Culture of Productivity and Distraction
431. Mark Strand on Dreams: A Lyrical Love Letter to Where We Go When We Go to Sleep
432. André Gide on Sincerity, Being vs. Appearing, and What It Really Means to Be Yourself
433. When I Have a Little Girl / When I Have a Little Boy: A Vintage Illustrated Daydream about Life without Unimaginative Rules
434. Radiant Fatherhood: A Playful and Profound 1925 Meditation on Gender Stereotypes and the Rewards of Parenting
435. Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Fulfillment Beyond the Limiting Notion of Work/Life Balance
436. Jack Kerouac on How to Meditate
437. Pioneering Early-Twentieth-Century Artist and Creative Entrepreneur Wanda Gág on Our Two Selves and How Love Lays Its Claim on Us
438. More than Words: The Illustrated Love Letters, Thank-You Notes, and Travelogues of Great Artists, from Kahlo to Calder to Saint-Exupéry
439. The Soul-Expanding Value of Difficulty: Rilke on How Great Sadnesses Transform Us and Bring Us Closer to Ourselves
440. An Illustrated Celebration of the Many Things Home Can Mean
441. Gabriel García Márquez on His Improbable Beginnings as a Writer
442. The Unlikely Roads That Lead Us Back to Ourselves: Eve Ensler on How a Tree Saved Her Life
443. Walter Benjamin on Information vs. Wisdom and Storytelling as the Antidote to Death by News
444. Iterations: A Lyrical Animated Film about How We Grow as Human Beings and the Iterative Nature of Self-Transformation
445. Crowds and Power: Nobel Laureate Elias Canetti on the Four Attributes of Crowds and the Paradox of Why We Join Them
446. Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to His Abusive and Narcissistic Father
447. David the Dreamer: Extraordinary Philosophical 1922 Children’s Book Illustrated by Freud’s Proto-Trans Niece Named Tom
448. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to School: A Charming Catalog of Excuses and an Allegory for How the Human Imagination Works
449. Annie Dillard on How to Live with Mystery, the Two Ways of Looking, and the Secret of Seeing
450. Roald Dahl on How Illness Emboldens Creativity: A Moving Letter to His Bedridden Mentor
451. Special Delivery: A Mischievous Illustrated Reminder that Nothing Is Insurmountable in the Conveyance of a Loving Gesture
452. 89 Clouds: A Poetic Celebration of Clouds and Everything They Mean
453. 26-Year-Old Frida Kahlo’s Compassionate Letter to 46-Year-Old Georgia O’Keeffe
454. How Steinbeck Used the Diary as a Tool of Discipline, a Hedge Against Self-Doubt, and a Pacemaker for the Heartbeat of Creative Work
455. How to Ask for Help: Young James Joyce’s Magnificent Letter to Lady Gregory
456. Rilke on Our Fear of the Unexplainable
457. The Well of Being: An Extraordinary Children’s Book for Grownups about the Art of Living with Openhearted Immediacy
458. Virginia Woolf on Writing and Self-Doubt
459. Mozart on Creativity and the Ideation Process
460. E.B. White on How to Write for Children and the Writer’s Responsibility to All Readers
461. What Comes After Religion: The Search for Meaning in Secular Life
462. Joan Didion on Hollywood’s Diversity Problem: A Masterpiece from 1968 That Could Have Been Written Today
463. The Velveteen Rabbit, Reimagined with Uncommon Tenderness by Beloved Japanese Illustrator Komako Sakai
464. Mary Oliver on How Habit Gives Shape to Our Inner Lives
465. How to Read Intelligently and Write a Great Essay: Robert Frost’s Letter of Advice to His Young Daughter
466. This Idea Must Die: Some of the World’s Greatest Thinkers Each Select a Major Misconception Holding Us Back
467. Nature Anatomy: A Glorious Illustrated Love Letter to Curiosity and the Magic of Our World
468. The Infinite Hotel Paradox: A Brilliant Animated Thought Experiment to Help You Grasp the Mind-Bending Concept of Infinity
469. The Magic Boat: A Brilliant Vintage “Interactive” Children’s Book by Freud’s Eccentric Niece Named Tom
470. The Artist’s Reality: Mark Rothko’s Little-Known Writings on Art, Artists, and What the Notion of Plasticity Reveals about Storytelling
471. The Best LGBT Children’s Books: A Sweet and Assuring Celebration of Diversity and Difference
472. What Mathematics Reveals About the Secret of Lasting Relationships and the Myth of Compromise
473. How a Dog Actually “Sees” the World Through Smell
474. Lewis Carroll on Happiness and How to Alleviate Our Discomfort with Change
475. Addiction to Truth: David Carr, the Measure of a Person, and the Uncommon Art of Elevating the Common Record
476. Mozart’s Magnificent Love Letter to His Wife
477. Lou Andreas-Salomé, the First Woman Psychoanalyst, on Human Nature in Letters to Freud
478. The Difference Between Routine and Ritual: How to Master the Balancing Act of Controlling Chaos and Finding Magic in the Mundane
479. The Missing Piece Meets the Big O: Shel Silverstein’s Sweet Allegory for the Simple Secret of Love and the Key to Nurturing Relationships
480. Joan Didion’s Favorite Recipes
481. Robert Walser, the Art of Walking, and Our Daily Dance of Posturing and Sincerity
482. Thoreau on Hard Work, the Myth of Productivity, and the True Measure of Meaningful Labor
483. The Agony of the Artist (with a capital A): E.E. Cummings on What It Really Means to Be an Artist and His Little-Known Line Drawings
484. The Nature and Nurture of Genius: The Sweet Illustrated Story of How Henri Matisse’s Childhood Shaped His Creative Legacy
485. Hope, Cynicism, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
486. Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Maximize Our Aliveness
487. Rethinking Our Atlas of Possibility: An Alphabet Book of Imaginative, Uncommon, and Stereotype-Defying Occupations
488. Kafka’s Beautiful and Heartbreaking Love Letters
489. A Decadent Decade of Design Matters: 10 Years of Intelligent and Inspiring Interviews with Creative Icons
490. Virginia Woolf on the Paradox of the Soul and the Consolations of Growing Older
491. The People’s Platform: An Essential Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Cultural Commons in the Age of Commerce
492. How to Work Through Difficulty: Lewis Carroll’s Three Tips for Overcoming Creative Block
493. Gertrude Stein’s “Word Portrait” of the Love of Her Life, Illustrated
494. The Island of Knowledge: How to Live with Mystery in a Culture Obsessed with Certainty and Definitive Answers
495. Carl Jung’s Delightfully Disgruntled Review of Ulysses and His Letter to James Joyce
496. Bertrand Russell on Immortality, Why Religion Exists, and What “The Good Life” Really Means
497. How Ursula Nordstrom, the Greatest Patron Saint of Modern Childhood Stood, Up for Creativity Against Commercial Cowardice
498. Cassandra Austen’s Drawings of English Royalty for Teenage Jane Austen’s Parodic History of England
499. D.T. Suzuki on What Freedom Really Means and How Zen Can Help Us Cultivate Our Character
500. How Playing Music Benefits Your Brain More than Any Other Activity
501. Pulitzer-Winning Poet Mark Strand on the Heartbeat of Creative Work and the Artist’s Task to Bear Witness to the Universe
502. How to Listen Between the Lines: Anna Deavere Smith on the Art of Listening in a Culture of Speaking
503. Rilke on What It Really Means to Love
504. Young Tolstoy’s Diaries: Time, Moral Development, and the Search of Self
505. Astrophysicist Janna Levin on Free Will and Whether the Universe Is Infinite or Finite, in Letters to Her Mother
506. Anne Lamott on How We Endure and Find Meaning in a Crazy World
507. Emerson on Talent vs. Character, Our Resistance to Change, and the Key to True Personal Growth
508. How Lewis Carroll’s Rules of Letter-Writing Can Make Email More Civil and Digital Communication Kinder
509. The Quiet Book: An Illustrated Love Letter to Life’s Meaningful Pauses
510. The Principle of Infinite Pains: Legendary Filmmaker Maya Deren on Cinema, Life, and Her Advice to Aspiring Filmmakers
511. Little Tree: An Uncommonly Beautiful and Subtle Japanese Pop-Up Book about the Cycle of Life
512. Control, Surrender and the Paradox of Self-Transcendence: Wisdom from a Vintage Finnish Children’s Book
513. To Paint Is to Love Again: Henry Miller on Art and Why Good Friends Are Essential for Creative Work
514. Hans Christian Andersen’s Daily Routine
515. What to Do When Your Wife Is More Successful than You: Wise Advice from Tchaikovsky’s Father, 150 Years Ahead of Its Time
516. Bertrand Russell on the Vital Role of Boredom and “Fruitful Monotony” in the Conquest of Happiness
517. Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate
518. How to Merge Money and Meaning: An Animated Field Guide to Finding Fulfilling Work in the Modern World
519. How Jane Goodall Turned Her Childhood Dream into Reality: A Sweet Illustrated Story of Purpose and Deep Determination
520. Peanuts and the Quiet Pain of Childhood: How Charles M. Schulz Made an Art of Difficult Emotions
521. The Paradox of Intellectual Promiscuity: Stephen Jay Gould on What Nabokov’s Butterfly Studies Reveal About the Unity of Creativity
522. The Wisdom of No Escape: Pema Chödrön on Gentleness, the Art of Letting Go, and How to Befriend Your Inner Life
523. Susan Sontag on the Trouble with Treating Art and Cultural Material as “Content”
524. Joan Didion on Driving as Secular Worship and Self-Transcendence
525. A Vintage Illustrated Love Letter to Books and How They’re Made
526. Why Not to Put a Raincoat on Your Dog: A Cognitive Scientist Explains the Canine Umwelt
527. The Art of Tough Love: Samuel Beckett Models How to Give Constructive Feedback on Your Friends’ Creative Work
528. Why Bees Build Perfect Hexagons
529. Kierkegaard on Boredom, Why Cat Listicles Fail to Answer the Soul’s Cry, and the Only True Cure for Existential Emptiness
530. Paul Goodman on the Nine Kinds of Silence
531. Some of Today’s Most Prominent Artists on Courage, Creativity, Criticism, Success, and What It Means to Be a Great Artist
532. A Graphic Cosmogony: Artists Imagine How the Universe Was Born
533. How to Master the Vital Balance of Freedom and Restraint: Young André Gide’s Rules of Conduct
534. Rilke on How Winter Illuminates the Richness of Life and the Tenacity of the Human Spirit
535. Parents Talk to Their Kids About How Babies Are Made
536. Einstein’s God: Science, Free Will, and the Human Spirit
537. Nabokov Gets Food Poisoning and Flees from the Hospital via Fire Escape: History’s Most Entertaining Account of “Homeric Retching”
538. Thea’s Tree: An Illustrated Ode to Daydreaming, the Passage of Time, and the Gift of Human Imagination
539. Compassion and the Real Meaning of the Golden Rule
540. A Classical Guitarist’s Assuring Account of Creative Homecoming and Overcoming Impostor Syndrome
541. The Greatest Definition of Love
542. Alan Watts on What Reality Is and How to Become What You Are
543. Albert Einstein’s Little-Known Correspondence with W.E.B. Du Bois About Equality and Racial Justice
544. The Seven Most Important Things I Learned in Seven Years of Reading, Writing, and Living: A Cinematic Adaptation
545. Joan Didion’s Favorite Books of All Time, in a Handwritten Reading List
546. Self-Refinement Through the Wisdom of the Ages: New Year’s Resolutions from Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds
547. Rereading as Rebirth: Young Susan Sontag on Personal Growth, the Pleasures of Revisiting Beloved Books, and Her Rereading List
548. What Everybody Needs
549. A Noble New Year’s Resolution from Nietzsche

2014

1. The Best of Brain Pickings 2014
2. Pioneering Children’s Book Author, Artist, and Early Twentieth-Century Woman Entrepreneur Wanda Gág Reimagines the Brothers Grimm
3. Neil deGrasse Tyson Selects the Eight Books Every Intelligent Person on the Planet Should Read
4. Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves? Leo Tolstoy on Why We Drink
5. What It Really Takes to Be an Artist: MacArthur Genius Teresita Fernández’s Magnificent Commencement Address
6. Maurice Sendak’s Weird and Wondrous Illustrations for “The Nutcracker”
7. Wole Soyinka, the First African Writer to Win the Nobel Prize in Literature, on Faith, Medicine, and the Healing of the Human Spirit
8. The Definitive Reading List of the 14 Best Books of 2014 Overall
9. Take Away the A: An Unusual Illustrated Alphabet Book about How We Make Meaning
10. Van Gogh on Principles, Talking vs. Doing, and the Human Pursuit of Greatness
11. Why We Lost Leisure: David Steindl-Rast on Purposeful Work, Play, and How to Find Meaning in the Magnificent Superfluities of Life
12. John Maeda on Creative Leadership, Talking vs. Making, and Why Human Relationships Are a Work of Craftsmanship
13. Haunting Illustrations for Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four,’ Introduced by the Courageous Journalist Who Broke the Edward Snowden Story
14. How New York Became New York: A Love Letter to Jane Jacobs, Tucked Inside a Graphic Biography of Robert Moses
15. Wendell Berry on Solitude and Why Pride and Despair Are the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work
16. Madeleine L’Engle on Creativity, Hope, Getting Unstuck, and How Studying Science Enriches Art
17. At What Point Are You Actually Dead?
18. Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress: A Tender Story of Gender Identity, Acceptance, and Overcoming Bullying
19. Carl Sagan Explains How Stars Are Born, Live, Die, and Give Us Life
20. Pecan Pie Baby: A Sweet Children’s Book Celebrating Diversity, Single-Motherhood, and the Vitalizing Gift of Community
21. The Best Biographies, Memoirs, and History Books of 2014
22. Margaret Mead on Myth vs. Deception and What to Tell Kids about Santa Claus
23. Jane Austen’s Advice on Writing, in Letters to Her Teenage Niece
24. Being vs. Becoming: John Steinbeck on Creative Integrity, the Art of Changing Your Mind, the Humanistic Duty of the Artist
25. Tove Jansson’s Vintage Philosophical Moomin Comics About Identity, Belonging, and Why We Join Groups
26. Being Mortal: A Surgeon on the Crossroads Between Our Bodies and Our Inner Lives and What Really Matters in the End
27. The Farmer and the Clown: A Warm Wordless Story about an Unlikely Friendship and How We Ennoble Each Other with Kindness
28. The Slippery Question of What Makes a Great Book
29. Pearl S. Buck, the Youngest Woman to Receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, on Art, Writing, and the Nature of Creativity
30. A Burst of Delight and Recognition: E.E. Cummings, the Art of Noticing, and the Spirit of Rebellion
31. Why Cloudy Days Help Us Think More Clearly
32. How Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s Daughter, Became the World’s First Computer Programmer
33. How We Become Who We Are: Meghan Daum on Nostalgia, Aging, and Why We Romanticize Our Imperfect Younger Selves
34. Dial Up the Magic of This Moment: Philosopher Joanna Macy on How Rilke Can Help Us Befriend Our Mortality and Be More Alive
35. Elie Wiesel’s Timely Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech on Human Rights and Our Shared Duty in Ending Injustice
36. Henri Rousseau’s Heartening Story of Success after a Lifetime of Rejection, Illustrated
37. Albert Einstein on the Fickle Nature of Fame, the Real Rewards of Work, and the “Whole Buffoonery” of the Cultural Establishment
38. On “Beauty”: Marilynne Robinson on Writing, What Storytelling Can Learn from Science, and the Splendors of Uncertainty
39. Margaret Mead on the Root of Racism and the Liability of Law Enforcement
40. The Best Art, Design, and Photography Books of 2014
41. Georgia O’Keeffe on Success, Public Opinion, and What It Means to Be an Artist, in a Letter to Sherwood Anderson
42. Vanessa Redgrave Reads Joan Didion’s Harrowing ‘Blue Nights’
43. The Psychology of Flow: What Game Design Reveals about the Deliberate Tensions of Great Writing
44. The Watcher: A Children’s Book about How Jane Goodall Became Jane Goodall
45. Vladimir Nabokov’s Passionate Love Letters to Véra and His Affectionate Bestiary of Nicknames for Her
46. The Knot in the Rosary: Rilke on How Difficulty Can Fuel Creativity and Why Feedback Poisons Art
47. The Art of Quickness: Italo Calvino on Digression as a Hedge Against Death and the Key to Great Writing
48. Once Upon a Northern Night: A Loving Illustrated Lullaby of Winter’s Whimsy
49. Legendary Cellist Pablo Casals, at Age 93, on Creative Vitality and How Working with Love Prolongs Your Life
50. Dostoyevsky on Why There Are No Bad People
51. How Van Gogh Found His Purpose: Heartfelt Letters to His Brother on How Relationships Refine Us
52. Lynda Barry’s Illustrated Field Guide to Keeping a Visual Diary and Cultivating a Capacity for Creative Observation
53. How to Let Your Life Speak, Discern Your Purpose, and Define Your Own Success
54. Our Fraught Relationship with Time, in Clever Minimalist Illustrations
55. 2014’s Best Books on Psychology, Philosophy, and How to Live Meaningfully
56. Great Children’s Books Celebrating Science
57. Kierkegaard on Nonconformity, the Individual vs. the Crowd, and the Power of the Minority
58. In Praise of Melancholy and How It Enriches Our Capacity for Creativity
59. The Science of How Clouds Actually Stay Up in the Sky
60. Little Red Riding Hood, Reimagined in Unusual Die-Cut Illustrations
61. C.S. Lewis on Why We Read
62. Eating Delancey: A Love Letter to Jewish Food and Its Iconic New York Bastions
63. Anne Lamott on Grief, Grace, and Gratitude
64. Leonard Bernstein on the Only True Antidote to Violence and His Moving Tribute to JFK
65. Maria Merian’s Butterflies: The Illustrated Story of How a 17th-Century Woman Forever Changed the Course of Science Through Art
66. Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Catalog of Beautiful Untranslatable Words from Around the World
67. The Best Science Books of 2014
68. Artist Francis Bacon’s Conflicted and Creative Life, Illustrated
69. The Graphic Canon of Children’s Literature: Comic Artists Reimagine Beloved Childhood Classics, from Tolstoy’s Fairy Tales to Harry Potter
70. Ursula K. Le Guin on Where Ideas Come From, the “Secret” of Great Writing, and the Trap of Marketing Your Work
71. Voltaire on How to Write Well and Stay True to Your Creative Vision
72. The Difference Between the Beautiful and the Sublime, Animated
73. The Humane Art: Virginia Woolf on What Killed Letter Writing and Why We Ought to Keep It Alive
74. Albert Camus’s Beautiful Letter of Gratitude to His Childhood Teacher After Winning the Nobel Prize
75. Form, Faith, and Freedom: Wendell Berry on What Poetry Teaches Us about the Secret to a Happy Marriage
76. MacArthur Geniuses on the Relationship Between Uncertainty and Creativity
77. Ted Turner on the Meaning of Life, the Trouble with Religion, and His Revision of the 10 Commandments
78. The Best Children’s Books of 2014
79. The Spirit of Sauntering: Thoreau on the Art of Walking and the Perils of a Sedentary Lifestyle
80. Leonardo’s Brain: What a Posthumous “Brain Scan” Six Centuries Later Reveals about the Source of Da Vinci’s Creativity
81. Ah-Ha to Zig-Zag: Maira Kalman’s Sweet Design-History Alphabet Book about Embracing Uncertainty and Imperfection
82. A Sweet Illustrated Celebration of Our Wild Inner Child
83. Diane Ackerman on What Working at a Suicide Prevention Hotline Taught Her About Loneliness and Resilience
84. Adrienne Rich on Lying, What “Truth” Really Means, and the Alchemy of Human Possibility
85. Mr. Tweed’s Good Deeds: An Unusual Counting Book about the Power of Small Kindnesses
86. The Mirror and the Meme: A 600-Year History of the Selfie
87. William S. Burroughs and Tennessee Williams Talk Writing, Drugs, and Death in 1977
88. The Fluid Dynamics of “The Starry Night”: How Vincent Van Gogh’s Masterpiece Explains the Scientific Mysteries of Movement and Light
89. The Jacket: A Sweet Illustrated Meta-Story about How We Fall in Love With Books
90. Showroom vs. Sanctuary: Rebecca Solnit on What Our Dream Homes Reveal about Our Interior Lives
91. Amanda Palmer on the Art of Asking and What Thoreau Teaches Us about Accepting Love
92. Anne Lamott on the Greatest Gift of Friendship and the Uncomfortable Art of Letting Yourself Be Seen
93. Pico Iyer on What Leonard Cohen Teaches Us about Presence and the Art of Stillness
94. The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream
95. Artist Andrea Dezsö’s Enchanting Black-and-White Illustrations for the Little-Known Original Edition of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
96. Why “Psychological Androgyny” Is Essential for Creativity
97. What Book Changed Your Perception of Reality?
98. Someone Reading a Book is a Sign of Order in the World
99. The Language of Lying: Animated Primer on How to Detect Deception
100. Anaïs Nin on Inner Conflict, the Connectedness of All Things, and What Maturity Really Means
101. Bill Nye Reads a Brilliant, Creationism-Busting Passage from His New Book on Evolution
102. Richard Dawkins on The Science of Why You Are Lucky to Be Alive
103. The Flat Rabbit: A Minimalist Scandinavian Children’s Book about Making Sense of Death and the Mysteries of Life
104. Pablo Neruda’s Extraordinary Life, in an Illustrated Love Letter to Language
105. Lucinda Williams on Compassion
106. The Malady of Middlebrow: Virginia Woolf’s Brilliantly Blistering Response to a Patronizing Reviewer
107. E.O. Wilson on How We Give Meaning to Life
108. Bruce Springsteen’s Reading List: 28 Favorite Books That Shaped His Mind and Music
109. Found Meals of the Lost Generation: An Edible Time-Capsule of the Creative Scene of 1920s Paris
110. Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time in 4,000 Years of Mapping the Universe
111. William James on Choosing Purpose Over Profit and the Life-Changing Power of a Great Mentor
112. The Elusive Art of Inner Wholeness and How to Stop Hiding Our Souls
113. Butterflies and Iron Bolts: What Virginia Woolf Teaches Us About Great Design and the Value of the Ungoogleable
114. The Hand Through the Fence: Pablo Neruda on What a Childhood Encounter Taught Him About Writing and Why We Make Art
115. Jazz Legend Bill Evans on the Creative Process, Self-Teaching, and Balancing Clarity with Spontaneity in Problem-Solving
116. At Home with Themselves: Sage Sohier’s Moving Portraits of Same-Sex Couples in the 1980s
117. Neil Gaiman Reimagines Hansel and Gretel, with Stunning Illustrations by Italian Graphic Artist Lorenzo Mattotti
118. Evolution: A Coloring Book
119. 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy: Andy Warhol’s Little-Known Collaborations with His Mother
120. Walter Benjamin on the Key Qualities of the Successful Person and How to Master the Art of Asking for What You Want
121. Kahlil Gibran on the Absurdity of Self-Righteousness
122. The Paradox of Active Surrender: Jeanette Winterson on How Learning to Understand Art Transforms Us
123. How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself: A Timely Vintage Field Guide to Self-Reliant Play and Joyful Solitude
124. Standing at the Gates of Hope
125. Sylvia Plath on Poetry and a Rare Recording of Her Reading the Poem “The Disquieting Muses”
126. Mark Twain on Racism, How Religion Is Used to Justify Injustice, and What His Mother Taught Him About Compassion
127. What Is Philosophy For? A Beautiful Animated Manifesto for Undoing Our Unwisdom, Cultivating Our Character, and Gaining Perspective
128. A Wave in the Mind: Virginia Woolf on Writing and Consciousness
129. October 22, 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre Becomes the First Person to Decline the Nobel Prize
130. Once Upon an Alphabet: Oliver Jeffers’s Imaginative Illustrated Stories for the Letters
131. An Illustrated Celebration of the Little-Known Mothers, Brothers, Friends, Wives, and Other Unsung Champions Behind Geniuses
132. You Have Never Seen the Sky: Georgia O’Keeffe on the Shimmering Beauty of the Southwest
133. My Favorite Things: Maira Kalman’s Illustrated Catalog of Unusual Objects, Memories, and Delight
134. Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark on Trust, Integrity, Human Nature, and Why a Steady Moral Compass Is the Best Investment
135. Mister Horizontal & Miss Vertical: A Minimalist Illustrated Meditation on How We Become Who We Are
136. Ursula K. Le Guin on Growing Older and What Beauty Really Means
137. The Hummingbird Effect: How Galileo Invented Timekeeping and Forever Changed Modern Life
138. John Dewey on War, the Future of Pacifism, and Our Individual Role in Peace
139. Ursula K. Le Guin on Being a Man
140. A Stocking for a Kitten: Beautiful Vintage Children’s Book Illustrations of Domestic Life in Eastern Europe
141. Umbrella: A Tender Illustrated Love Letter to Time, Anticipation, and the Art of Waiting by Mid-Century Japanese Artist Taro Yashima
142. Are Writers Born or Made? Jack Kerouac on the Crucial Difference Between Talent and Genius
143. A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated by Oscar Wilde
144. The History Manifesto: How to Eradicate the Epidemic of Short-Termism and Harness Our Past in Creating a Flourishing Future
145. Friedrich Nietzsche on Why a Fulfilling Life Requires Embracing Rather than Running from Difficulty
146. Italo Calvino on the Unbearable Lightness of Language, Literature, and Life
147. The Best Infographics of the Year: Nate Silver on the 3 Keys to Great Information Design and the Line Between Editing and Censorship
148. Man Meets Woman: Minimalist Pictogram Commentary on Gender Norms
149. Hannah Arendt on Memory, the Elasticity of Time, and What Free Will Really Means
150. Why Haters Hate: Kierkegaard Explains the Psychology of Bullying and Online Trolling in 1847
151. A Book Is a Heart That Only Beats in the Chest of Another: Rebecca Solnit on the Solitary Intimacy of Reading and Writing
152. Self-Scrutiny Applied with Kindness: Epictetus’s Enduring Wisdom on Happiness and How Philosophy Helps Us Answer the Soul’s Cry
153. Artist Anne Truitt on the Ideal Daily Routine and How Parenting Shapes Our Capacity for Savoring Solitude
154. The Curse of Meh: Why Being Extraordinary Is Not a Matter of Being Universally Liked but of Being Polarizing
155. The Sense of Style: Psycholinguist Steven Pinker on the Art and Science of Beautiful Writing
156. What Books Do for the Human Spirit: The Four Psychological Functions of Great Literature
157. Joni Mitchell on Therapy and the Creative Mind
158. A Minimalist, Maximally Imaginative Geometric Allegory for the Essence of Friendship and Creativity
159. The Mystery of Personal Identity: What Makes You and Your Childhood Self the Same Person Despite a Lifetime of Change
160. The Virtuous Cycle of Gratitude and Mutual Appreciation: The Letters of Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann
161. Some Thoughts on “Privilege”
162. Pen & Ink: An Illustrated Collection of Unusual, Deeply Human Stories Behind People’s Tattoos
163. Marcus Aurelius on What His Father Taught Him About Humility, Honor, Kindness, and Integrity
164. Karl Marx’s Life and Legacy, in a Comic
165. Legendary Choreographer Merce Cunningham on Life, Learning, and the Creative Experience
166. The Artist and the Anguish of the American Dream: Zadie Smith’s Love-Hate Letter to New York
167. What the Future of Robots Reveals About the Human Condition
168. Joey and the Birthday Present: Wonderful Vintage Illustrations from Anne Sexton’s Little-Known 1971 Children’s Book
169. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch’s Three Rules of Writing and Four Elements of Style: Timeless Advice from 1914
170. Heidegger in the Kitchen: What a Shrimp Can Teach Us About the Meaning of Life
171. Pioneering Psychologist Jerome Bruner on Art as a Mode of Knowing and Its Four Psychological Aspects
172. Joan Didion Answers the Proust Questionnaire
173. The Unsung Heroes of Innovation: A 1964 Manifesto for the Role of the Critic-Curator in How Ideas Spread
174. A History of New York in 101 Objects: A Thoughtful Visual Encyclopedia of Collective Memory
175. Tolstoy’s Reading List: Essential Books for Each Stage of Life
176. Jane Goodall on Empathy and How to Reach Our Highest Human Potential
177. Too-ticky’s Guide to Life: Wisdom on Uncertainty, Presence, and Self-Reliance from Beloved Children’s Book Author Tove Jansson
178. Hopeful Dispatches on Love, Sex, Work, Friendship, Death, and Life’s In-Betweenery from Lena Dunham
179. Sam Harris on the Paradox of Meditation and How to Stretch Our Capacity for Everyday Self-Transcendence
180. Werner Herzog on America and His Lifelong NASA Dream
181. The Art of Timing: Alan Watts on the Perils of Hurrying and the Pleasures of Presence
182. The Psychology of Cryptomnesia: How We Unconsciously Plagiarize Existing Ideas
183. William Faulkner on Writing, the Human Dilemma, and Why We Create: A Rare 1958 Recording
184. What There Is Before There Is Anything There: Celebrated Cartoonist Liniers Confronts Childhood Nightmares
185. Real Recipes from Roald Dahl’s Beloved Children’s Books
186. The Edge of the Sky: An Unusual and Poetic Primer on the Universe Written in the 1,000 Most Common Words in the English Language
187. Mary Oliver Reads Her Beloved Poem “Wild Geese”
188. Greil Marcus on What the History of Rock ‘n’ Roll Teaches Us about Innovation and the Art of Self-Reinvention
189. Marie Curie on Curiosity, Wonder, and the Spirit of Adventure in Science
190. A Lolitigation Lament: Nabokov on Censorship and Solidarity
191. Professor Astro Cat’s Frontiers of Space: Imaginative and Illuminating Children’s Book Tickles Our Zest for the Cosmos
192. A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus on Our Search for Meaning and Why Happiness Is Our Moral Obligation
193. Joni Mitchell on Freedom, the Source of Creativity, and the Dark Side of Success
194. David Foster Wallace on the Redemptive Power of Reading and the Future of Writing in the Age of Information
195. George Orwell on Writing and the Four Questions Great Writers Must Ask Themselves
196. Susan Sontag on the Perils of Publicity in Creative Work
197. John Dewey on the True Purpose of Education and How to Harness the Power of Our Natural Curiosity
198. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Reimagined in Minimalist Graphics by Italian Illustrator Olimpia Zagnoli
199. How Repetition Enchants the Brain and the Psychology of Why We Love It in Music
200. Rosie Revere, Engineer: A Stereotype-Defying Children’s Book Celebrating the Value of Failure
201. Walt Whitman, Bohemian Dandy: The Story of America’s First Gay Bar and Its Creative Coterie
202. Sherwin Nuland on the Art of Dying and How Our Mortality Confers Meaning Upon Our Lives
203. Georgia O’Keeffe on Art, Life, and Setting Priorities
204. Petunia, I Love You: A Forgotten 1965 Children’s Book Treasure
205. The Life of the Mind: Hannah Arendt on Thinking vs. Knowing and the Crucial Difference Between Truth and Meaning
206. A Sweet Celebration of Connection and Inner Softness in a Culture That Encourages Hard Individualism and Prickly Exteriors
207. Anne Truitt on Compassion, Humility, and How to Cure Our Chronic Self-Righteousness
208. Neuroscientist Sam Harris on Happiness, Spirituality Without Religion, and How to Cultivate the Art of Presence
209. Nobel-Winning Playwright Eugene O’Neill on Happiness and the True Measure of Success in a Letter to His Unmotivated Young Son
210. Zadie Smith on the Psychology of the Two Types of Writers
211. Jeff Buckley on Music and Life: A Rare Interview with One of Creative History’s Most Tragic Heroes
212. The World’s First Children’s Book about a Two-Mom Family
213. Mary Oliver on the Magic of Punctuation and a Reading of Her Soul-Stretching Poem “Seven White Butterflies”
214. Theodor Adorno on the Art of Punctuation
215. The Memory of an Elephant: A Most Unusual Children’s Book for Lovers of Mid-Century Modern Design
216. 100 Ideas That Changed the Web
217. Legendary Composer Aaron Copland on the Conditions of Creativity, Emotion vs. Intellect, and the Trap of Public Opinion
218. Maurice Sendak’s Darkest, Most Controversial Yet Most Hopeful Children’s Book
219. The Little Red Schoolbook: An Honest Vintage Guide to Teenage Sexuality, Education Reform, and Independent Thinking
220. Wisdom in the Age of Information and the Importance of Storytelling in Making Sense of the World: An Animated Essay
221. C.S. Lewis on True Friendship
222. Incomparable Things Said Incomparably Well: Emerson’s Extraordinary Letter of Appreciation to Young Walt Whitman
223. The Book of Miracles: Rare Medieval Illustrations of Magical Thinking
224. Werner Herzog’s No-Nonsense Advice to Aspiring Filmmakers and Creative Entrepreneurs
225. Celebrated Writers on the Creative Benefits of Keeping a Diary
226. Montaigne and the Double Meaning of Meditation
227. Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau: Cultural Stereotypes Subverted in a Subtle Celebration of Diversity
228. How to Be Alone: An Antidote to One of the Central Anxieties and Greatest Paradoxes of Our Time
229. Everything I Need To Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book: Grown-up Advice on Modern Life from Vintage Children’s Books
230. The Actual Algebra of Finding Your Soul Mate
231. Pioneering Psycholinguist Vera John-Steiner on How Creativity Works
232. The Hedgehog and the Fox: Italo Calvino on the Two Types of Writers
233. Fox’s Garden: A Tender Wordless Story About the Gift of Grace and the Transformative Power of Kindness to Those Kicked Away
234. The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long
235. Click Like You Give a Damn: The Politics of Linkbait and How Feeding on Buzz Ensures a Malnourished Soul
236. Leonard Bernstein’s Moving Letter of Gratitude to His Mentor and a Prescient 1943 Manifesto for Crowdfunding the Arts
237. The Price of Admission: Dan Savage on the Myth of “The One” and the Unsettling Secret of Lasting Love
238. From a Gentleman to a Lady: A Clever Cryptographic Love Letter from the 1850s
239. Darwin’s Battle with Anxiety
240. Anne Truitt on Resisting the Label “Artist” and the Difference Between Doing Art and Being an Artist
241. Why We Ignore the Obvious: The Psychology of Willful Blindness
242. How William Gibson Coined “Cyberspace”
243. The Psychology of Writing and the Cognitive Science of the Perfect Daily Routine
244. Worn Stories: Playful and Poignant Tales of Clothes That Encode Life’s Most Meaningful Memories
245. Keep Your Baby Eyes: Legendary Journalist Lincoln Steffens’s Beautiful Letter of Advice to His Son on the Power of Not-Knowing
246. My Teacher Is a Monster: A Sweet Modern Fable About Seeing Through the Otherness of Others
247. A Visual History of Romantic Friendship
248. Ray Bradbury on the Secret of Life, Work, and Love
249. How Rockets Really Work
250. How We Know What We Know: The Art of Adaequatio and Seeing with the Eye of the Heart
251. Maurice Sendak’s Rare, Sensual Illustrations for Herman Melville’s Greatest Commercial Failure and Most Personally Beloved Book
252. Why We Hurt Each Other: Tolstoy’s Letters to Gandhi on Love, Violence, and the Truth of the Human Spirit
253. James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
254. Why the Sky and the Ocean Are Blue: Rebecca Solnit on the Color of Distance and Desire
255. Maya Angelou on Courage and Facing Evil
256. Inside, Outside, Upside-Down: A Sweet Children’s Book About Understanding the World Through Relative Positions
257. Thoughts on Design: Paul Rand on Beauty, Simplicity, the Power of Symbols, and Why Idealism Is Essential in Creative Work
258. “Don’t Read Books!” A 12th-Century Zen Poem
259. Werner Herzog on Creativity, Self-Reliance, and How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
260. How We Think: John Dewey on the Art of Reflection and Fruitful Curiosity in an Age of Instant Opinions and Information Overload
261. O Captain! My Captain! David Foster Wallace, Robin Williams, Walt Whitman, and the Unholy Ghost of Suicide
262. An Atlas of Alternative Maps by Tim Berners-Lee, Ed Ruscha, Yoko Ono, Damien Hirst, John Maeda, Kevin Kelly, John Baldessari, and More
263. What Children Can Teach Us About Risk, Failure, and Personal Growth
264. C.S. Lewis’s Ideal Daily Routine
265. What Makes a Baby: An Inclusive and Imaginative Illustrated Guide to the Modern Family
266. Emerson on the Two Pillars of Friendship
267. Charity and Sylvia: The Remarkable Story of How Two Women Married Each Other in Early America
268. Barbara Walters on Gossip
269. Jane Goodall Answers the Proust Questionnaire
270. Bukowski’s Letter of Gratitude to the Man Who Helped Him Quit His Soul-Sucking Job and Become a Full-Time Writer
271. Flashlight: A Whimsical Wordless Story about Curiosity and Wonder
272. David Foster Wallace on Writing, Self-Improvement, and How We Become Who We Are
273. Ordering the Heavens: Hevelius’s Revolutionary 17th-Century Star Catalog and the First Moon Map
274. Art, Inc.: A Field Guide to the Psychology and Practicalities of Becoming a Successful Artist
275. Bad Feminist: Roxane Gay on the Complexities and Blind Spots of the Equality Movement
276. Nietzsche’s 10 Rules for Writers, Penned in a Letter to His Lover and Muse
277. The ABC Bunny: A Sweet and Unusual Alphabet Book from 1934
278. Allergy to Originality: Mark Twain and the Remix Nature of All Creative Work, Animated
279. Anthropologist Margaret Mead on Female vs. Male Creativity, Gender in Leadership, Equitable Parenting, and Why Women Make Better Scientists
280. Leonard Shlain on Integrating Wonder and Wisdom at the Intersection of Art and Physics
281. Rilke on the Symbiosis Between the Body and the Soul
282. This Land Is Mine: Nina Paley’s Animated History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
283. Andy Warhol on the Joys of Virtual Relationships
284. Parrots Over Puerto Rico: An Illustrated Children’s Book Celebrating the Spirit of Conservation
285. A Field Guide to Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on How We Find Ourselves
286. A Guide for the Perplexed: Mapping the Meaning of Life and the Four Levels of Being
287. How Susan Sontag Possessed New York and Subverted Sexual Stereotypes
288. Henry Miller on Money and How the Hedonic Treadmill of Material Rewards Entraps Us
289. The Best-Kept Secret of Clichés: How to Upgrade Our Uses and Abolish Our Abuses of Language
290. Migrant: An Alice in Wonderland for the Modern Immigrant Experience
291. The Poetics of Reverie: Philosopher Gaston Bachelard on Dreams, Love, Solitude, and Happiness
292. “Vacation Sex”: A Poem by Dorianne Laux
293. C.S. Lewis on Suffering and What It Means to Have Free Will in a Universe of Fixed Laws
294. Love Is Forever: A Children’s Book That Helps Kids Deal with Losing a Loved One
295. Astronomer Jill Tarter on the Ongoing Search for Extraterrestrial Life and How She Inspired Carl Sagan’s Novel-Turned-Film Contact
296. Debriefing: Susan Sontag Reads from I, Etcetera
297. Shakespeare, Sadness-Shaman: How Hamlet Can Help Us Through Our Grief and Despair
298. How a Vintage Children’s Book Illustrated by Lynd Ward Saved New York’s Iconic Little Red Lighthouse
299. The Universe, “Branes,” and the Science of Multiple Dimensions
300. The Science of Dust, Picasso’s Favorite Phenomenon
301. Edna St. Vincent Millay on the Death Penalty and What It Really Means to Be an Anarchist
302. Jeanette Winterson on Time, Language, Reading, and How Art Creates a Sanctified Space for the Human Spirit
303. Adam Phillips on Why a Capacity for “Fertile Solitude” Is Essential for Self-Esteem and Healthy Relationships
304. New Yorker Cartoonist Roz Chast’s Remarkable Illustrated Meditation on Aging, Illness, and Death
305. The Relationship Between Creativity and Mental Illness
306. July 18, 1992: The First Photo Uploaded to the Web, of CERN’s All-Girl Science Rock Band
307. How to Find Yourself
308. The Book of Trees: 800 Years of Symbolic Diagrams Visualizing Human Knowledge
309. Ray Bradbury on Failure, Why We Hate Work, and the Importance of Love in Creative Endeavors
310. Portraits in Creativity: Artist Maira Kalman, Modern Patron Saint of the Moments Inside the Moments Inside the Moments
311. Barbara Walters on the Art of Conversation, How to Talk to Bores, and What Truman Capote Teaches Us About Being Interesting
312. David Bowie’s Enchanting Isolated Vocal Track for “Ziggy Stardust”
313. Leonard Cohen on Creativity, Hard Work, and Why You Should Never Quit Before You Know What It Is You’re Quitting
314. Swami Vivekananda on the Secret of Work: Intelligent Consolation for the Pressures of Productivity from 1896
315. Mocha Dick: The Story of the Real-Life Whale That Inspired Moby-Dick, Illustrated
316. Physician Allison Ballantine’s Short, Stirring Commencement Address on Living with Presence
317. The Art of Self-Renewal: The Pioneering Social Scientist John Gardner on How to Keep Your Work and Your Spirit Alive Over the Long Run
318. How the Bees Sexed Up Earth and Gave the Flowers Their Colors
319. Beloved British Artist Ralph Steadman Illustrates the Life of Leonardo da Vinci
320. David Bowie Answers the Famous Proust Questionnaire
321. Artist Francis Bacon on the Role of Suffering and Self-Knowledge in Creative Expression
322. Chinua Achebe on the Meaning of Life and the Writer’s Responsibility in the World
323. 30 Days of “Quantum Poetry” Celebrating the Glory of Science
324. What Makes a Great City: E.B. White on the Poetics of New York
325. Visionary Neurologist Oliver Sacks on What Hallucinations Reveal about How the Mind Works
326. Thoreau on What Skunk-Cabbage Can Teach Us About Optimism and the Meaning of Human Life
327. The Man Who Turned Paper into Pixels: How Mathematician and Black Jack Wizard Claude Shannon Ignited the Information Age
328. Bohemians: A Graphic History of Creative Mavericks
329. The Story of a Man Who Wanted to Do Housework: A Proto-Feminist Children’s Book from 1935
330. Buddhist Economics: How to Start Prioritizing People Over Products and Creativity Over Consumption
331. The Best Illustrations from 150 Years of Alice in Wonderland
332. A Breathtaking Animated Adaptation of Bukowski’s “The Man with the Beautiful Eyes”
333. Isaac Asimov on Optimism vs. Cynicism about the Human Spirit
334. Tchaikovsky on the “Immeasurable Bliss” of Creativity, the Mystical Machinery of Inspiration, and the Evils of Interruptions
335. How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Unblock the “Spiritual Electricity” of Creative Flow
336. How to Write Fat Books: Walter Benjamin’s Principles of the Weighty Tome
337. The Last Hotel: Patti Smith Sets Jack Kerouac to Song
338. The Science of Mental Time Travel and Why Our Ability to Imagine the Future Is Essential to Our Humanity
339. Whitman’s Urban Reverie: A Passionate Ode to the City from the Poet Laureate of Nature
340. How to Get Rich: Paul Graham on Money vs. Wealth
341. Maya Angelou’s Beautiful Letter to Her Younger Self
342. A “Dynamic Interaction”: Leo Buscaglia on Why Love Is a Learned Language
343. Tove Jansson’s Rare Vintage Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland
344. The Art of Looking: How to Live with Presence, Break the Tyranny of Productivity, and Learn to See Our Everyday Wonderland
345. The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on Growing Old, the Perils of Success, and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart
346. Elementary School Kids Record Recommendations for Their Favorite Books
347. Alan Watts on the Difference Between Belief and Faith
348. Legendary Songwriter Carole King on Inspiration vs. Perspiration and How to Overcome Creative Block
349. A Good Man: Moving Animated Short Film by StoryCorps Tells the Human Stories of LGBT Pride
350. George Orwell on Money, Taxes, and the Government
351. Picasso on Intuition, How Creativity Works, and Where Ideas Come From
352. 7 Life-Learnings from 7 Years of Brain Pickings, Illustrated
353. Why the Best Roadmap to an Interesting Life is the One You Make Up as You Go Along: Daniel Pink’s Commencement Address
354. Malcolm Gladwell on Criticism, Tolerance, and Changing Your Mind
355. Susan Sontag on the Crucial Difference Between Being in the Middle and Being at the Center
356. Rethinking the Placebo Effect: How Our Minds Actually Affect Our Bodies
357. The London Jungle Book: What an Indian Tribal Artist Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Capacity for Everyday Wonder
358. Censorship and What Freedom of Speech Really Means: Comedian Bill Hicks’s Brilliant Letter to a Priest
359. A Brief History of Glass and How It Planted the Seed for the Innovation Gap Between the East and West
360. Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on Why a Capacity for Boredom Is Essential for a Full Life
361. The Invisibles: Moving Vintage Photos of LGBT Couples in the Early 20th Century
362. C.S. Lewis on the Three Ways of Writing for Children and the Key to Authenticity in All Writing
363. Leonardo da Vinci’s Life and Legacy, in a Vintage Pop-Up Book
364. Joyce Carol Oates on What Hemingway’s Early Stories Can Teach Us About Writing and the Defining Quality of Great Art
365. The Psychology of Your Future Self and How Your Present Illusions Hinder Your Future Happiness
366. Willa Cather on Making Art Through Troubled Times: A Moving Letter to Her Younger Brother
367. The Theology of Rest: A Modern Sermon About Living with Presence in the Age of Productivity
368. Anna Deavere Smith on Discipline and Learning to Stop Letting Others Define You
369. Albert Camus on Happiness and Love, Illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton
370. The Poetic Species: Legendary Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson in Conversation with Poet Laureate Robert Hass on Science and Poetry
371. How to Navigate the Murky Waters of Workplace Friendships: Wisdom from Adam Smith and Aristotle
372. How to Learn: Lewis Carroll’s Four Rules for Digesting Information and Mastering the Art of Reading
373. Vintage Illustrations for Tolkien’s The Hobbit from Around the World
374. 19-Year-Old Sylvia Plath on the Transcendent Splendor of Nature
375. Iconic Italian Graphic Artist Bruno Munari’s Rare Vintage “Interactive” Picture-Books
376. Legendary Harvard Psychologist Jerome Bruner on Identity, “Creative Wholeness,” and How We Limit Our Happiness
377. Shonda Rhimes on Dreaming vs. Doing, the Tradeoffs of Success, and the Blinders of Entitlement
378. William Styron on Why Formal Education Is a Waste of Time for Writers
379. Shepard Fairey on Capitalism, Freedom, Selling Out, and What Makes Great Art
380. Animal Madness: How Deciphering Mental Illness in Our Fellow Beings Helps Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves
381. How We Grieve: Meghan O’Rourke on the Messiness of Mourning and Learning to Live with Loss
382. Anaïs Nin on Reproductive Rights: A Prescient Perspective from 1940
383. Maurice Sendak’s Rarest Art: His Vintage Illustrations for William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”
384. The Poetics of the Psyche: Adam Phillips on Why Psychoanalysis Is Like Literature and How Art Soothes the Soul
385. The Birth of the Information Age: How Paul Otlet’s Vision for Cataloging and Connecting Humanity Shaped Our World
386. Amusingly Cryptic Warning Signs from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Autotuned
387. The Breathtaking Love Letters of Violet Trefusis and Vita Sackville-West
388. Kafka on Books and What Reading Does for the Human Spirit
389. Strange Fruit: Nine Unsung Heroes of Black History, in a Graphic Novel
390. Van Gogh and Mental Illness
391. How Our Delusions Keep Us Sane: The Psychology of Our Essential Self-Enhancement Bias
392. Maira Kalman at TEDxMet
393. Allen Ginsberg Sings William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”
394. Andy Warhol on Sex and Love
395. Leo Tolstoy on Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World
396. Dani Shapiro on Vulnerability, the Creative Impulse, the Writing Life, and How to Live with Presence
397. Kandinsky on the Spiritual Element in Art and the Three Responsibilities of Artists
398. The Art of Neil Gaiman
399. Alan Watts on Money vs. Wealth
400. Astronomy and the Art of Verse: How Galileo Influenced Shakespeare
401. Anatomy of the Influences Behind Star Wars: A Mashup Masterpiece
402. A Brief History of the Toilet
403. Maya Angelou on Identity and the Meaning of Life
404. The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: Donald Barthelme’s Irreverent Vintage Children’s Book
405. The Pilot and the Little Prince: Beloved Illustrator Peter Sís Captures the Bittersweet Story of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
406. Discipline, Quality vs. Quantity, and the Power of Intellectual Elegance: Remembering Massimo Vignelli
407. Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jody Williams on How Our Choices Shape the World, Animated
408. A Lesson in Listening from John Cage
409. Rare and Stunning Etchings for Ulysses by Italian Artist Mimmo Paladino
410. The Oppressed Majority: A Poignant French Short Film about a World in Which Men Are Subject to Sexism
411. A Visual History of Typewriter Art from 1893 to Today
412. Thoreau on the Greatest Gift of Growing Old
413. The Long Game: Brilliant Visual Essays on the Only Secret to Creative Success, from Leonardo da Vinci to Marie Curie
414. Alan Lightman on Our Yearning for Immortality and Why We Long for Permanence in a Universe of Constant Change
415. How Diego Rivera Met the Fierce Teenage Frida Kahlo and Fell in Love with Her Years Later
416. Adrienne Rich on Why an Education Is Something You Claim, Not Something You Get
417. Children’s Endearing Letters to Judy Blume About Masturbation, and the Beloved Author’s Response
418. I Am Cow, Hear Me Moo: A Charming Illustrated Ode to Courage and Confidence
419. Bob Dylan on Sacrifice, the Unconscious Mind, and How to Cultivate the Perfect Environment for Creative Work
420. The Greatest Commencement Addresses of All Time
421. Seth Godin on Vulnerability, Creative Courage, and How to Dance with the Fear: A Children’s Book for Grownups
422. Leo Buscaglia on Education, Industrialized Conformity, and How Stereotypes and Labels Limit Love
423. Eve Ensler on How Trauma Makes Us Leave Our Bodies and Disconnect from Ourselves
424. Lisbeth Zwerger’s Rare and Soulful 1984 Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s “The Selfish Giant”
425. 1,000 Dog Portraits: How a David-vs-Goliath Copyright Nightmare Became an Illustrated Celebration of the Canine Condition
426. The Definitive Manifesto for Handling Haters: Anne Lamott on Priorities and How We Keep Ourselves Small by People-Pleasing
427. Artist Matt Freedman’s Courageous Visual Diary of Cancer
428. Flannery O’Connor on Dogma, Belief, and the Difference Between Religion and Faith
429. Joyce Carol Oates on Consciousness, Wonder, and the Art of Beholding Beauty
430. Muriel Rukeyser on the Root of Our Resistance to Poetry, What It Shares with Science, and How It Expands our Lives
431. The Original Cartoon Canon of Lolcats: Legendary British Artist Ronald Searle’s 1960s Cat Drawings
432. Where Do Babies Come From? A Sweet and Honest Primer on How Reproduction Works by Illustrator Sophie Blackall
433. Pete Seeger on Combinatorial Creativity, Originality, Equality, and the Art of Dot-Connecting
434. The Backfire Effect: The Psychology of Why We Have a Hard Time Changing Our Minds
435. Salvador Dalí’s Eccentric and Extravagant Life, Illustrated
436. Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” Reimagined in Beautiful Illustrations by Artist Allen Crawford
437. Kurt Vonnegut on Reading, Boredom, Belonging, and Our Human Responsibility
438. How to Pitch Yourself: Young Eudora Welty’s Impossibly Charming Job Application to The New Yorker
439. David Lynch on Where Ideas Come From and the Fragmentary Nature of Creativity
440. An Animated Ode to What a Dog Can Teach Us About the Meaning of Life
441. Visionary Vintage Children’s Book Celebrates Gender Equality, Ethnic Diversity, and Space Exploration
442. May 9, 1933: Helen Keller’s Searing Letter to the Nazis About Censorship and the Inextinguishable Freedom of Ideas
443. The Modern Art Cookbook: Recipes and Food-Inspired Treasures from the Twentieth Century’s Greatest Creative Icons
444. Lynne Tillman on What to Say When People Ask You Why You’re an Artist or Writer
445. Vincent van Gogh on Art and the Power of Love in Letters to His Brother
446. What the Science of “Sleep Paralysis” Reveals About How the Brain Works
447. Girls Standing on Lawns: A Quirky Collaboration Between Maira Kalman, Daniel Handler, and MoMA
448. The Lion and the Bird: A Tender Illustrated Story About Loneliness, Loyalty, and the Gift of Friendship
449. A Graphic Biography of Warhol
450. E.B. White’s Beautiful Letter to a Man Who Had Lost Faith in Humanity
451. Picasso on Success and Why You Should Never Compromise in Creative Work
452. Kierkegaard on Our Greatest Source of Unhappiness
453. David Bowie Narrates the Pioneering Soviet Children’s Symphony “Peter and the Wolf”
454. Ten Days at the Mad-House: How Nellie Bly Posed as Insane in 1887 in Her Brave Exposé of Asylum Abuse
455. Pixar Cofounder Ed Catmull on Failure and Why Fostering a Fearless Culture Is the Key to Groundbreaking Creative Work
456. Carson McCullers’s Little-Known 1964 Illustrated Children’s Book
457. Letters to a Young Artist: Anna Deavere Smith on Confidence and What Self-Esteem Really Means
458. Perseverance, Self-Transcendence, and the “Slow Churn” of Creativity: A Conversation with Artist Rachel Sussman
459. What Girls Are Good For: 20-Year-Old Nellie Bly’s 1885 Response to a Patronizing Chauvinist
460. How to Turn Down a Marriage Proposal Like Charlotte Brontë
461. Lisbeth Zwerger’s Imaginative Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland
462. What It Takes to Design a Good Life
463. Salvador Dalí’s Rare, Erotic Vintage Cookbook
464. Drawing Autism: A Visual Tour of the Autistic Mind from Kids and Celebrated Artists on the Spectrum
465. George Saunders on the Power of Kindness, Animated
466. How to Move People with Integrity: The Art of Persuasion, Animated
467. Six Rare Recordings of Denise Levertov Reading Her Poetry, Illustrated by Artist Ohara Hale
468. George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” Illustrated by Ralph Steadman
469. John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Love, Animated
470. The Dark Side of Certainty: Jacob Bronowski on the Spirit of Science and What Auschwitz Teaches Us About Our Compulsion for Control
471. Love Undetectable: Andrew Sullivan on Why Friendship Is a Greater Gift Than Romantic Love
472. Children’s Endearing Letters to Judy Blume About Being Gay and Her Timeless Advice to Parents
473. Anthony Trollope’s Witty and Wise Advice on How to Be a Successful Writer
474. Upside Down Day: Rare and Wonderful Vintage Children’s Book by the Head of NASA’s Public Affairs Office
475. Why Love Needs Space: Applying the Benjamin Franklin Effect to Romantic Relationships
476. Three Delightful Poems About Dogs from E.B. White
477. Pioneering Psychologist Jerome Bruner on the 6 Pillars of Creativity and How to Master the Art of “Effective Surprise”
478. Susan Sontag on Beauty vs. Interestingness
479. Happy Birthday, Nabokov: A BBC Documentary on Lolita and Life
480. Patti Smith’s Advice on Life
481. Trying Not to Try: How to Cultivate the Paradoxical Art of Spontaneity Through the Chinese Concept of Wu-Wei
482. Mr. Bliss: Tolkien’s Little-Known Children’s Book for His Own Kids, Lovingly Handwritten and Illustrated by the Author Himself
483. If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice to the Young on Kindness, Computers, Community, and the Power of Great Teachers
484. “Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on How a Simple Human Smile Saved His Life
485. Hope Is a Girl Selling Fruit: A Heartening Illustrated Parable of Self-Actualization by a Young Indian Artist and Storyteller
486. I Can Fly: A Heartening Vintage Gem by Ruth Krauss, with Illustrations by Celebrated Disney Artist Mary Blair
487. 19-Year-Old Italo Calvino on How to Assert Yourself and Live with Integrity
488. The Science of Humor and the Humor of Science: A Brilliant 1969 Reflection on Laughter as Self-Defense Against Automation
489. Zelda Fitzgerald’s Little-Known Art
490. The Wizard of Oz, Reimagined by Beloved Illustrator Lisbeth Zwerger
491. Fictitious Dishes: Elegant and Imaginative Photographs of Meals from Famous Literature
492. Why There Was No First Human
493. Herman Melville on Art
494. The Art of Practical Wisdom
495. The Science of Mood in Animals: Can Pets Be Depressed?
496. The World’s Oldest Living Things: A Decade-Long Photographic Masterpiece at the Intersection of Art, Science, and Philosophy
497. A Visual Dictionary of Philosophy: Major Schools of Thought in Minimalist Geometric Graphics
498. Journey: A Beautiful Wordless Story About the Power of the Imagination
499. Dorothy Parker Reads “Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom” in a Rare 1926 Recording
500. The Science of Smell: How the Most Direct of Our Senses Works
501. The Public Library: A Photographic Love Letter to Humanity’s Greatest Sanctuary of Knowledge, Freedom, and Democracy
502. Dare to Disturb the Universe: Madeleine L’Engle on Creativity, Censorship, Writing, and the Duty of Children’s Books
503. Mary Oliver on the Mystery of the Human Psyche, the Secret of Great Poetry, and How Rhythm Makes Us Come Alive
504. The Hidden Brain: How Ocean Currents Explain Our Unconscious Social Biases
505. Gorgeous and Rare Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland by John Vernon Lord
506. The Science of How Memory Works
507. Tom Gauld’s Brilliant Literary Cartoons Blur the Artificial Line Between “High” and “Pop” Culture
508. The Adulterous Society: How John Updike Made Suburban Sex Sexy
509. Isaac Asimov on the Thrill of Lifelong Learning, Science vs. Religion, and the Role of Science Fiction in Advancing Society
510. Donald Barthelme on the Art of Not-Knowing and the Essential Not-Knowing of Art
511. An Illustrated Taxonomy of City Bikes and Cyclist Archetypes
512. Maya Angelou Recites Her Poem “Phenomenal Woman”
513. April 3, 1920: Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald Get Married and One of History’s Most Turbulent Romances Ensues, Recounted in Zelda’s Letter
514. Young Hans Christian Andersen Climbs Mount Vesuvius During an Eruption and Lives to Tell About It in a Beautiful, Dramatic Account
515. The Presence of Absence: Jane Dorn’s Haunting Photographs of Abandoned Buildings in the South
516. Jane Goodall on Science, Spirituality, and Our Highest Responsibility as Human Beings
517. Winston and George: An Illustrated Ode to Friendship, with an Incredible Creative Journey 50 Years in the Making
518. Neurocomic: A Graphic Novel About How the Brain Works
519. Whatever You Are, Be a Good One
520. From the Gold Rush to Silicon Valley: How Mark Twain Became the Steve Jobs of His Day
521. Why Look at Animals: John Berger on What Our Relationship with Our Fellow Beings Reveals About Us
522. The Evolutionary Mystery of Left-Handedness and What It Reveals About How the Brain Works
523. Agnes Martin on Art, Happiness, Pride, and Failure: A Rare Vintage Interview with the Reclusive Artist
524. Grit and the Secret of Success
525. How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently
526. The Betrayed Confidence: Edward Gorey’s Weird and Whimsical Vintage Illustrated Postcards
527. March 28, 1941: Virginia Woolf’s Suicide Letter and Its Cruel Misinterpretation in the Media
528. Rejection as Creative Catalyst: A Lesson in Entrepreneurship from New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff
529. John Vernon Lord’s Whimsical Illustrations for James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
530. The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My: Tove Jansson’s Playful and Philosophical Vintage Masterpiece
531. Annie Dillard on the Art of the Essay and the Different Responsibilities of Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, and Short Stories
532. Frank O’Hara Reads “Metaphysical Poem” in a Rare 1964 Recording
533. Viktor Frankl on the Art of Presence, the Soul-Stretching Capacity of Suffering, and How to Persevere in Troubled Times
534. Flannery O’Connor on Why the Grotesque Appeals to Us, Plus a Rare Recording of Her Reading “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
535. Toy Stories: Photos of Children from Around the World with Their Favorite Things
536. Mood Science and the Evolutionary Origins of Depression
537. The Timekeeper: Behind the Scenes of Humanity’s Most Accurate Atomic Clocks, Which Dictate Our Daily Lives
538. Aldous Huxley on Drugs, Democracy, and Religion
539. Larry and Friends: An Illustrated Ode to Immigration, Diversity, Otherness, and Kindness
540. Salvador Dalí’s Sinister and Sensual Paintings for Dante’s “Divine Comedy”
541. We Are Made of Dead Stuff: Amazing Animation Made of Leaves
542. Hello, New York: Julia Rothman’s Illustrated Love Letter to Gotham’s Five Boroughs
543. Collect Raindrops: The Rhythm of the Seasons, in Gorgeous Cut-Paper Illustrations
544. Neil Gaiman on Why Scary Stories Appeal to Us, the Art of Fear in Children’s Books, and the Most Terrifying Ghosts Haunting Society
545. Schopenhauer on Style
546. Happy Birthday, Standard Time: How the Railroads Gave Us Time Zones
547. Meanwhile: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Living Fabric of a City and Our Shared Human Longing to Be Understood
548. Marketing the Moon: How NASA Sold Space to Earth
549. How the Invention of the Alphabet Usurped Female Power in Society and Sparked the Rise of Patriarchy in Human Culture
550. Astronaut Chris Hadfield Covers Bowie’s “Space Oddity” in Space
551. George Lucas on the Meaning of Life
552. Djuna Barnes Interviews James Joyce in 1922: The Iconic Irishman’s Most Significant Interview
553. Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How to Live with Our Human Fragility
554. 33 Books on How to Live: My Reading List for the Long Now Foundation’s Manual for Civilization
555. Narrowly Selective Transparency: Susan Sontag on Photography vs. the Other Arts
556. Einstein on Fairy Tales and Education
557. In Pieces: French Illustrator Marion Fayolle’s Wordless Narratives About Human Relationships
558. March 13, 1964: What the Kitty Genovese Murder Teaches Us About Empathy, Apathy, and Our Human Predicament
559. How to Master on the Art of Getting Noticed: Austin Kleon’s Advice to Aspiring Artists
560. Mary Roach on the Science of Masturbation and the Outrageous Vintage Pseudoscientific Techniques for Controlling It
561. The Life and Death of Mountains
562. Jack Kerouac on Kindness, the Self Illusion, and the “Golden Eternity”
563. A Short Guide to a Happy Life: Anna Quindlen on Work, Joy, and How to Live Rather Than Exist
564. Orgasm Without Release: Alan Watts Presages Our Modern Media Gluttony in 1951
565. Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Crucial Difference Between Success and Mastery
566. “Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on What the Sahara Desert Taught Him About the Meaning of Life
567. Stewart Brand’s Reading List: 76 Books to Sustain and Rebuild Humanity
568. A Love Letter to the City
569. The Miraculous in the Mundane: Richard Feynman Explains How Rubber Bands Work
570. Wondrous Beauty: How Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte Pioneered the Ideal of the Independent Woman
571. Italo Calvino on Distraction, Procrastination, and Newspapers as the Proto-Time-Waster
572. The Science of Our Warped Perception of Time, Animated
573. A Solitary World: A Breathtaking Homage to H.G. Wells from a New Genre of Cinematic Poetry
574. Buckminster Fuller Presages Online Education, with a Touch of TED, Netflix, and Pandora, in 1962
575. The Distracted Public: Saul Bellow on How Writers and Artists Save Us from the “Moronic Inferno” of Our Time
576. An Illustrated Field Guide to Mythic Monsters, from Gremlins to Zombies to the Kraken
577. Brian Eno’s Reading List of Twenty Books Essential for Sustaining Human Civilization
578. The Six Motives of Creativity: Mary Gaitskill on Why Writers Write
579. John Steinbeck on the Creative Spirit and the Meaning of Life
580. Advice from Artists on How to Overcome Creative Block, Handle Criticism, and Nurture Your Sense of Self-Worth
581. The River: Exploring the Inner Seasonality of Being Human in Gorgeous Watercolors by Italian Artist Alessandro Sanna
582. Conformity and the Instinct of Rebellion: Norman Mailer Channels His Departed Friend, the Pioneering Psychologist Robert Lindner
583. Shackleton’s Journey: A Lovely Illustrated Chronicle of History’s Most Heroic Polar Expedition
584. Mark Twain on Masturbation
585. Alice Walker on Creativity
586. The Nature of the Self: Experimental Philosopher Joshua Knobe on How We Know Who We Are
587. Life Is Like Blue Jelly: Margaret Mead Discovers the Meaning of Existence in a Dream
588. Dinner with Mr. Darcy: Recipes from Jane Austen’s Novels and Letters
589. Freud’s Life and Legacy, in a Comic
590. The “I” of the Beholder: What Is the Self?
591. The Hating Book: An Illustrated Vintage Parable About What Every Friendship Needs
592. Tara Brach Reads from Mary Oliver’s “Dog Songs”
593. Vladimir Nabokov on Writing, Reading, and the Three Qualities a Great Storyteller Must Have
594. Anaïs Nin on Love and Life, Illustrated
595. Beloved Children’s Book Author and Illustrator Leo Lionni on Creativity and the Secret of Great Storytelling
596. Why Science-Fiction Writers Are So Good at Predicting the Future
597. The 10 Stages of the Creative Process
598. The Benjamin Franklin Effect: The Surprising Psychology of How to Handle Haters
599. Mark Rothko on the Transcendent Power of Art and How (Not) To Experience His Paintings
600. Joan Didion on Storytelling, the Economy of Words, and Facing Rejection
601. How Creativity Works: Neil Gaiman on Where Ideas Come From
602. A Simple Exercise to Increase Well-Being and Lower Depression from Martin Seligman, Founding Father of Positive Psychology
603. Legendary Lands: Umberto Eco on the Greatest Maps of Imaginary Places and Why They Appeal to Us
604. Gorgeous Vintage Posters from the Golden Age of Skiing
605. David Foster Wallace on Leadership, Illustrated and Read by Debbie Millman
606. Joseph Brodsky on How to Develop Your Taste in Reading
607. The Dot and the Line: A Quirky Vintage Love Story in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster, Animated by Chuck Jones
608. The Philosopher and the Prodigy: How Voltaire Fell in Love with a Remarkable Woman Mathematician
609. Aesthetic Rapture Between Heaven and Hell: William Blake Illustrates John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
610. The Greatest LGBT Love Letters of All Time
611. The Science of Why We Kiss
612. A.A. Milne Reads from Winnie-the-Pooh in a Rare 1929 Recording
613. Maira Kalman on Curiosity, Courage, Happiness, and the Two Keys to a Full Life
614. Charles Darwin on Family, Work, and Happiness
615. Big Thinkers on the Only Things Worth Worrying About
616. The Little Prince as a Pop-Up Book
617. Lemony Snicket and Lisa Brown’s Charming Illustrated Allegory about Curiosity, the Imagination, and the Subjectivity of Observation
618. Beauty, Aging, and the Expansion of Our Sympathies: What George Eliot Teaches Us About the Rewards of Middle Age
619. We Are Singing Stardust: Carl Sagan on the Story of Humanity’s Greatest Message and How the Golden Record Was Born
620. The Project of Literature: Susan Sontag on Writing, Routines, Education, and Elitism in a 1992 Recording from the 92Y Archives
621. R. Crumb Illustrates Philip K. Dick’s Hallucinatory Spiritual Experience
622. How Apple Went from Underdog to Cult in Six Design and Innovation Strategies from the Early Days
623. Charles Dickens on Grief and How to Heal a Mourning Heart
624. The Dreadnought Hoax: Young Virginia Woolf and Her Bloomsbury Posse Prank the Royal Navy in Drag and a Turban
625. Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far: Sagmeister’s Typographic Maxims on Life, Updated
626. David Hockney Illustrates the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
627. Comedy Godmother Phyllis Diller on What Every Comedian Needs and How a Great Joke Works
628. Legendary Anthropologist Margaret Mead on the Fluidity of Human Sexuality in 1933
629. Stop Overplanning: The Psychology of Why Excessive Goal-Setting Limits Our Happiness and Success
630. William S. Burroughs on Creativity
631. The Cosmic Accident of Life: Alan Lightman on Dark Energy, the Multiverse, and Why We Exist
632. Jeanette Winterson on the Value of Art to the Human Spirit
633. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Original Watercolors for “The Little Prince”
634. Compiling as a Creative Act: What Duke Ellington’s Remixing Reveals about Plagiarism and Innovation
635. The Psychology of Trust in Work and Love
636. Virginia Woolf Visits Stonehenge
637. Norman Mailer on the Rat Race of Success and What True Growth Means
638. George Orwell’s Dessert Recipes
639. Herman Melville on Writing and His Daily Routine
640. Herman and Rosie: An Illustrated Ode to Finding a Sense of Purpose and Belonging in the Big City
641. Some of Today’s Most Beloved Children’s Book Illustrators Each Draw Their Favorite Animal
642. Alice in Quantumland: A Charming Illustrated Allegory of Quantum Mechanics by a CERN Physicist
643. The Taste Gap: Ira Glass on the Secret of Creative Success, Animated in Living Typography
644. Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives
645. Industrial Sublime: How New York City’s Bridges and Rivers Became a Muse of Modernism
646. Let’s Be Enemies: A Vintage Maurice Sendak Treasure
647. What Makes People Compelling
648. The Poetic Principle: Poe on Truth, Love, Reason, and the Human Impulse for Beauty
649. Astronaut Chris Hadfield on Success and the Meaning of Life
650. John Lennon’s Semi-Sensical Poetry and Prose, Illustrated with His Charming Drawings
651. Sir Quentin Blake’s Quirky Illustrated Alphabet Book
652. The Ego and the Universe: Alan Watts on Becoming Who You Really Are
653. From Galileo to Sagan, Famous Scientists on the Art of Wonder, the Mystery of the Universe, and the Heart of Science
654. John Updike on How to Have a Productive Daily Routine, and the Most Important Things Aspiring Writers Should Know
655. Much Loved: Portraits of Beloved Childhood Teddies
656. The Life-Cycle of a Single Water Drop, in a Pop-Up Book Animated in Stop-Motion
657. Oblique Strategies: Brian Eno’s Prompts for Overcoming Creative Block, Inspired by John Cage
658. The Future of Love: Malcolm Cowley’s 1930 Parodic Prediction for the Age of Data
659. Lord Byron’s Epic Poem “Don Juan,” Annotated by Isaac Asimov and Illustrated by Milton Glaser
660. Debunking the Myth of the 10,000-Hours Rule: What It Actually Takes to Reach Genius-Level Excellence
661. The Futurist Cookbook: 11 Rules for a Perfect Meal and an Anti-Pasta Manifesto circa 1932
662. The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde
663. I’m Glad I’m a Boy! I’m Glad I’m a Girl! A Vintage Parody of Gender Inequality
664. Jane Goodall on Science and Spirit: The Iconic Primatologist Talks to Bill Moyers and Reads Her Poem “The Old Wisdom”
665. The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald: An Endearing Record of His First Loves from His Secret Boyhood Diary
666. The Creative Cleft: Joyce Carol Oates on the Divided Self and the “Diamagnetic” Relationship Between Person and Persona
667. William Blake’s Breathtaking Drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy, Over Which He Labored Until His Dying Day
668. Party Like It’s 1903: Virginia Woolf on the Ecstasy of Music and Dance
669. The Gorgeous Art of Norah Borges, Jorge Luis Borges’s Younger Sister
670. From Galileo to Google: How Big Data Illuminates Human Culture
671. Kurt Vonnegut on the Secret of Happiness: An Homage to Joseph Heller’s Wisdom
672. Legendary Indian Leader Nehru on Power, Privilege, and Kindness: Letters to His 10-Year-Old Daughter, Indira Gandhi
673. Nonreligious Divinity in the Known and the Unknowable: Alan Lightman on Science and Spirituality
674. How to Make Love: A 1936 Guide to the Art of Wooing
675. Salvador Dalí’s Rare 1975 Illustrations for “Romeo and Juliet”
676. Every Page of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Illustrated by Self-Taught Artist Matt Kish
677. Love, Sex, and the World Between
678. John Green’s Superb Advice to Aspiring Writers and Creators in the Digital Age
679. On Motivation: Beloved Composer Leonard Bernstein on Why We Create
680. 19th-Century German Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer Presages the Economics and Ethics of the Web and Modern Publishing
681. Edith Windsor on Love and the Truth about Equality, Illustrated
682. Weight and Weightlessness: The Science of Life in Space, in Charming Vintage Illustrations
683. Alice in Wonderland Illustrated by Ralph Steadman: A 1973 Gem
684. William Faulkner’s Beautiful Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech About How Artists Help Us Live
685. Reinventing the Wheel: A Design History of the Circle as a Visual Metaphor for Information
686. Henry James on Memory, Growing Older, and What Happiness Really Means
687. How Art Can Save Your Soul
688. The History of Philosophy, in Superhero Comics
689. The Culture and Costs of Anxiety
690. Stephen Hawking’s Charming Children’s Book about Time-Travel, Co-Written with His Daughter
691. How to Live: Lessons from Montaigne
692. The Secret Life of the Radio
693. The Universe in a Glass of Wine: Richard Feynman on How Everything Connects, Animated
694. French Artist Benjamin Lacombe’s Haunting Illustrations for Poe’s Tales of the Macabre
695. An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence
696. Teenage Virginia Woolf on the Human Mind
697. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Little-Known, Gorgeous Art
698. Falling Upwards: An Illustrated History of the Golden Age of Hot Air Balloons and How We Conquered the Skies
699. How Long It Takes to Form a New Habit
700. The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
701. A Wonderful New Year’s Resolution from Ursula Nordstrom, Unheralded Patron Saint of Modern Childhood
702. How to Lower Your “Worryability”: Italo Calvino’s 1950 New Year’s Resolution

2013

1. On a Beam of Light: The Story of Albert Einstein, Illustrated by the Great Vladimir Radunsky
2. The Best of Brain Pickings 2013
3. T. S. Eliot’s “The Cultivation of Christmas Trees”: A Rare Vintage Gem, Illustrated by Enrico Arno
4. Dream of Life: The Ultimate Documentary on the Iconic Artist Patti Smith
5. December 24, 1968: NASA Simulates Exactly What the Apollo 8 Astronauts Saw When They Took the Iconic Earthrise Photograph
6. The 13 Best Books of 2013: The Definitive Annual Reading List of Overall Favorites
7. Neil Gaiman Reads Charles Dickens’s Original Performance Script for “A Christmas Carol”
8. Hans Christian Andersen’s Little-Known Sketches: The Beloved Storyteller’s Illustrated Travelogue of Europe
9. Jane Austen on Creative Integrity
10. Pioneering Biologist and Writer Rachel Carson on Wonder, Parenting, and Why It Is More Important to Feel Than to Know
11. The Varieties of Scientific Experience: Carl Sagan on Science and Spirituality
12. A Quirky Coloring Book Featuring Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey, Ryan McGuinness, Brian Rea, and Other Contemporary Art Icons
13. The Story of Benjamin Franklin’s Sister and How Women Are Sidelined in History
14. The Greatest Commencement Address of All Time: Joseph Brodsky’s Six Rules for Playing the Game of Life Like a Winner
15. The Best Photography Books of 2013
16. 2013’s Best Books on Writing and Creativity
17. Keith Richards on Success, Creativity, and the Art of Observation
18. Where You Are: Cartography as Wayfinding for the Soul
19. Dustin Hoffman on What It’s Really Like to Be a Woman
20. Why New York City Is Known as “The Big Apple”
21. The Pious Infant: Edward Gorey’s Rare Illustrated Allegory about the Dangers of Dogmatism
22. Cats, Dogs, and the Human Condition: The Year’s Best Books about Pets and Animals
23. Famous Writers’ Sleep Habits vs. Literary Productivity, Visualized
24. Alice Munro’s Nobel Prize Interview: Writing, Women, and the Rewards of Storytelling
25. Kenneth Patchen Reads His Love Poem “Creation”
26. Flannery O’Connor’s Little-Known Cartoons
27. Kurt Vonnegut on the Writer’s Responsibility, the Limitations of the Brain, and Why the Universe Exists: A Rare 1974 WNYC Interview
28. The Love Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, with a Cameo by William S. Burroughs
29. A Miraculous “Accident of Physics”: Carl Zimmer Explains How Feathers Evolved, Animated
30. Otto: The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear
31. Brené Brown on Vulnerability, Human Connection, and the Difference Between Empathy and Sympathy, Animated
32. Ada Lovelace, the World’s First Computer Programmer, on Science and Religion
33. Connected: A Charming Stop-Motion Papercraft Music Video Inspired by the Universe
34. The 13 Best Science and Technology Books of 2013
35. The 13 Best Children’s, Illustrated, and Picture Books of 2013
36. George Orwell, Feminist: The Beloved Author on Gender Equality in Work and Housework
37. Nelson Mandela’s Moving Inaugural Address and Timeless Wisdom from His Autobiography
38. The 13 Best Art and Design Books of 2013
39. J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”
40. Dame Steve Shirley, the World’s First Freelance Programmer
41. Joan Didion on Grief
42. The Art of Rube Goldberg
43. Hemingway on Not Writing for Free and How to Run a First-Rate Publication
44. Young vs. Old, Male vs. Female, Intuition vs. Intellect: Susan Sontag on How the Stereotypes and Polarities of Culture Imprison Us
45. Thoroughly Conscious Ignorance: How the Power of Not-Knowing Drives Progress and Why Certainty Stymies the Evolution of Knowledge
46. A Ghost of Evolution: The Curious Case of the Avocado, Which Should Be Extinct But Still Exists
47. Legendary Cartoonist Ralph Steadman’s Inkblot Dog Drawings
48. The Raven: Lou Reed’s Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe, Illustrated by Italian Artist Lorenzo Mattotti
49. The 13 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2013
50. Mondrian Meets Euclid: An Eccentric Victorian Mathematician’s Masterwork of Art and Science
51. The Creative Pace of the 20th Century’s Greatest Authors, Visualized
52. How Should We Live: History’s Forgotten Wisdom on Love, Time, Family, Empathy, and Other Aspects of the Art of Living
53. Modern Masterpieces of Comedic Genius: The Art of the Humorous Amazon Review, Part Deux
54. A Gratitude Omnibus: People, Projects, and Publications That Make Life Better
55. November 27, 1965: A Rare Recording of Stanley Kubrick’s Most Revealing Interview
56. The Psychology of Self-Control
57. Mysterious Street Photographer Vivian Maier’s Self-Portraits
58. Einstein on Why We Are Alive
59. Scientists and Writers Answer Children’s Simple, Surprisingly Profound Questions About How Life Works
60. Anatomy of Anagrammatic Pseudonyms: The Many Incarnations of Edward Gorey
61. The 13 Best Biographies, Memoirs, and History Books of 2013
62. Jane, the Fox and Me: A Gorgeous Graphic Novel about the Travails of Youth Inspired by Charlotte Brontë
63. Love and Math: Equations as an Equalizer for Humanity
64. This Is Love: Neil Gaiman’s Bachelor Party the Night Before He Married Amanda Palmer
65. Anne Lamott on Writing and Why Perfectionism Kills Creativity
66. Charles Dickens’s Heartening Fan Mail to George Eliot
67. To Live Long, Write for Children: Remembering Charlotte Zolotow
68. Voltaire on the Perils of Censorship, the Freedom of the Press, and the Rewards of Reading
69. War, Peace, and Listicles: Young Leo Tolstoy on Money, Fame, and Writing for the Wrong Reasons
70. Duke Ellington’s Diet
71. Wild Raspberries: Young Andy Warhol’s Little-Known Vintage Cookbook
72. Fritz Kahn: The Little-Known Godfather of Infographics
73. Beloved Illustrator Eric Carle’s Vibrant Ode to Friendship and How It Reunited Him with His Lost Childhood Friend
74. Stunning Photographs of the World’s Last Indigenous Tribes
75. Stay: The Social Contagion of Suicide and How to Preempt It
76. Europe, America, Utopia: Calvino on Hemingway
77. How Hans Christian Andersen Revolutionized Storytelling, Plus the Best Illustrations from 150 Years of His Beloved Fairy Tales
78. The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Lovely Collaborative Illustrated Micro-Narratives Supporting Independent Media
79. The Letter Is Dead, Long Live the Letter
80. The Love Letters of Pioneering Victorian Photojournalist Fannie Benjamin Johnston
81. Moleskine Celebrates 100 Years of Swann’s Way: Illustrated Portraits of Ira Glass, Rick Moody, and Others Reading Proust
82. The Geography of Great Literature, in Hand-Lettered Typography
83. An Illustrated Field Guide to Biking in 8 Major European Cities
84. November 14, 1963: The First-Ever Footage from Space
85. How to Be a Writer: Hemingway’s Advice to Aspiring Authors
86. The History of the English Language, Animated
87. Dog Songs: Mary Oliver on What Dogs Teach Us About the Meaning of Our Human Lives
88. Do Something Meaningful: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Ann Druyan on Carl Sagan
89. Anaïs Nin on the Elusive Nature of Joy
90. Lou Reed on Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Laurie Anderson, Setting Edgar Allan Poe to Music, and Why Record Labels Deserve to Die
91. Susan Sontag on How the False Divide Between Pop Culture and “High” Culture Limits Us
92. The Perils of Plans: Why Creativity Requires Leaping into the Unknown
93. Self-Portrait as Your Traitor: A 21st-Century Illuminated Manuscript
94. Kurt Vonnegut’s Life-Advice to His Children
95. Great Writers Reflect on the Divide Between Private Person and Public Persona in Hand-Drawn Self-Portraits
96. The Science of Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
97. Albert Camus on Happiness, Unhappiness, and Our Self-Imposed Prisons
98. Sylvia Plath’s Unseen Drawings, Edited by Her Daughter and Illuminated in Her Private Letters
99. The Story Behind the Iconic “Migrant Mother” Photograph and How Dorothea Lange Almost Didn’t Take It
100. The Interpretation of Leonard Bernstein’s Dreams
101. Walk This World: A Celebration of Life in a Day
102. Little Boy Brown: A Lovely Vintage Ode to the Loneliness of Childhood
103. Before I Die: A Global Ethnography of Anonymous Aspirations in Chalk and Public Space
104. 20-Year-Old Hunter S. Thompson’s Surprisingly Sage Advice on How to Find Your Purpose and Live a Meaningful Life
105. Jeanette Winterson on Adoption, Belonging, and How We Use Storytelling to Save Ourselves
106. What’s Wrong with the Nobel Prize
107. Beyond Pretty Pictures: Marian Bantjes on Serendipity, Success, and the Whimsy of Design
108. Naomi Wolf’s Spectacular, No-Bullshit Letter of Advice to Her Younger Self
109. How to Watch the Un-sunlike Sun: Solar Eclipse Tips from Pioneering Astronomer Maria Mitchell
110. This Is Mars: Mesmerizing Ultra-High-Resolution NASA Photos at the Intersection of Art and Science
111. Gobble You Up: Ancient Indian Women’s Folk Art, Reimagined as Stunning Modern Storytelling
112. How the Candy Industry Manipulated Daylight Saving Time
113. Eudora Welty on the Poetics of Place and Writing as an Explorer’s Map of the Unknown
114. How Our Minds Mislead Us: The Marvels and Flaws of Our Intuition
115. The Three-Body Problem: French Polymath Paul Valéry on the Trifecta of Creaturely Realities We Inhabit and Strive to Integrate
116. Codex Seraphinianus: History’s Most Bizarre and Beautiful Encyclopedia, Brought Back to Life
117. Ballad: Beloved French Graphic Artist Blexbolex’s Visual Allegory of Life’s Evolving Complexity
118. A Very Large Head: The Phrenology of George Eliot
119. Letter to Borges: Susan Sontag on Books, Self-Transcendence, and Reading in the Age of Screens
120. Thoreau on Not Finding a Publisher and What Success Really Means
121. Cicero’s Web: How Social Media Was Born in Ancient Rome
122. Picasso’s Rare 1934 Etchings for a Racy Ancient Greek Comedy
123. Divine Fury: A Brief History of Genius
124. Art as Therapy: Alain de Botton on the 7 Psychological Functions of Art
125. E.B. White on the Future of Reading: Timeless Wisdom from 1951
126. Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading, Writing, and Living
127. Vintage Illustrations for the Fairy Tales E. E. Cummings Wrote for His Only Daughter, Whom He Almost Abandoned
128. Susan Sontag on Literature and Freedom
129. On Tenderness: What Genetics Godfather Gregor Mendel Teaches Us about the Heart of Science
130. Pioneering Anthropologist Margaret Mead’s Beautiful Love Letters to Her Soul Mate
131. A Kid’s Guide to Graphic Design by Iconic Designer Chip Kidd
132. Dani Shapiro on the Pleasures and Perils of Writing and the Creative Life
133. Duke Ellington’s Artistry and Artifice: How the Jazz Icon Engineered His Own Image
134. Ray Bradbury on How List-Making Can Boost Your Creativity
135. Irving Geis’s Pioneering Scientific Illustrations and Diagrams of Imaginary Flight Paths to Venus
136. Coleridge, Plagiarist
137. Jazz Legend Wynton Marsalis on the Magic of Music
138. The Psychology of Getting Unstuck: How to Overcome the “OK Plateau” of Performance & Personal Growth
139. Inside the Rainbow: Gorgeous Vintage Russian Children’s Book Illustrations from the 1920s-1930s
140. The Science of Dreams and Why We Have Nightmares
141. Vino Sans Snobbery: A Charming Illustrated Scratch-and-Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert
142. The Prescient Poem 10-Year-Old Anne Frank Penned in Her Schoolmate’s Friendship Book
143. What Makes a Great Interview
144. E. B. White on Why He Wrote Charlotte’s Web, Plus His Rare Illustrated Manuscripts
145. Humans of New York: A Vibrant Photographic Census of Diversity and Dignity
146. The Art of “Creative Sleep”: Stephen King on Writing and Wakeful Dreaming
147. Nobel Laureate Alice Munro on the Secret of a Great Story
148. The Big New Yorker Book of Cats
149. Hannah Arendt on How Bureaucracy Fuels Violence
150. Drawn to New York: Counterculture Cartoonist Peter Kuper’s Illustrated Chronicle of 34 Years in Gotham
151. How Virginia Woolf’s Orlando Subverted Censorship and Revolutionized the Politics of LGBT Love in 1928
152. Need a House, Call Ms. Mouse: Progressive Vintage Children’s Book Starring a Female Architect
153. The Psychology of How Mind-Wandering and “Positive Constructive Daydreaming” Boost Our Creativity and Social Skills
154. John Updike on Writing and Death
155. Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
156. Salvador Dalí Illustrates Don Quixote
157. How to Be an Educated Consumer of Infographics: David Byrne on the Art-Science of Visual Storytelling
158. Alan Lightman on Science, Genius, and Common Sense
159. Ernest Hemingway on How New York Can Drive You to Suicide
160. Mark Twain on Religion and Our Human Egotism
161. Liberace’s Little-Known Cookbook
162. Edie Windsor, Patron Saint of Modern Love
163. Secrets of The Phantom Tollbooth: Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer on Creativity, Anxiety, and Failure
164. Charles Bukowski on the Ideal Conditions and Myths of Creativity, Illustrated
165. Alone in the Forest: Exploring Fear & Courage in Stunning Illustrations Based on Indian Folk Art
166. How Much a Planet Costs: Astronomy, Economics, and the Trouble with Pricing the Priceless
167. The Psychology of Pets as an Extension of Human Fashion: Virginia Woolf’s Nephew on Why Dogs Came to Outshine Cats
168. David Bowie’s Formative Reading List of 75 Favorite Books
169. The Secret Museum: Van Gogh’s Never-Before-Seen Sketchbooks
170. How to Make Your Own Luck
171. October 1, 1847: Miss Mitchell’s Comet and How Scientists Stand in Solidarity
172. How Richard Dawkins Coined the Word Meme: The Legendary Atheist’s Surprising Religious Inspiration
173. Vintage Catalog Cards for Literary Classics from the Semi-Secret Archive of the Library of Congress
174. How To Be a Nonconformist: 22 Irreverent Illustrated Steps to Counterculture Cred from 1968
175. Brave Genius: How the Unlikely Friendship of Scientist Jacques Monod and Philosopher Albert Camus Shaped Modern Culture
176. Ironic Serif: A Brief History of Typographic Snark and the Failed Crusade for an Irony Mark
177. What Elvish, Klingon, and Dothraki Reveal about Real Language & the Essence of Human Communication
178. Janis Joplin on Creativity and Rejection: Her Lost Final Interview, Rediscovered and Animated
179. In Pursuit of the Extraordinary: Anaïs Nin Reads from Her Famous Diaries
180. The Four Types of Jaywalkers: An Illustrated Morphology of Bad Pedestrians circa 1924
181. Wisdom from a MacArthur Genius: Psychologist Angela Duckworth on Why Grit, Not IQ, Predicts Success
182. William Faulkner on Writing, the Purpose of Art, Working in a Brothel, and the Meaning of Life
183. The Hole Book: Charmingly Illustrated Verses from 1908
184. T.S. Eliot Reads “The Naming of Cats,” 1947
185. How the Universe Works: Stephen Hawking’s Theory of Everything, Animated in 150 Seconds
186. If Dogs Run Free: Bob Dylan’s 1970 Classic, Adapted by Illustrator Scott Campbell
187. The Beautiful and Frightening Experience of How Science Is Done: Richard Feynman’s Letter to James Watson about The Double Helix
188. The Odd Habits and Curious Customs of Famous Writers
189. What George Eliot Teaches Us about the Life-Cycle of Happiness and the Science of Why We’re Happier When We’re Older
190. F. Scott Fitzgerald Reads John Masefield’s “On Growing Old”
191. The Psychology of Stress, Orgasm, and Creativity
192. Anaïs Nin on Writing, the Future of the Novel, and How Keeping a Diary Enhances Creativity: Wisdom from a Rare 1947 Chapbook
193. How Evolution Works, Animated in Minimalist Motion Graphics
194. Milton Glaser on Art, Technology, and the Secret of Life
195. The Science and Philosophy of Friendship: Lessons from Aristotle on the Art of Connection
196. What Makes Iconic Design: Lessons from the Visual History of the London Underground Logo
197. Make Art, Make Money, and Believe the Beard: What Jim Henson Teaches Us about Bridging Creative Integrity and Commercial Success
198. Art, Science, and Butterfly Metamorphosis: How a 17th-Century Woman Laid the Foundations of Modern Entomology
199. Samuel Johnson on Writing and Creative Doggedness
200. How the Nobel Prize Was Born: A Surprising Story of Bad Journalism, Existential Guilt, and Dynamite
201. Aesthetic Consumerism and the Violence of Photography: What Susan Sontag Teaches Us about Visual Culture and the Social Web
202. Famous Writers on New York: Timeless Private Reflections from Diaries, Letters and Personal Essays
203. Edgar Allan Poe on the Joy of Marginalia and What Handwriting Reveals about Character
204. The Hole: A Philosophical Scandinavian Children’s Book About the Meaning of Existence
205. E. B. White’s Poignant and Playful Obituary for His Beloved Dog Daisy
206. Henry Builds a Cabin: Thoreau’s Joyfully Minimalist Life at Walden, Illustrated for Kids and Full of Wisdom for All
207. Well-Read Women: Gorgeous Watercolor Portraits of Literature’s Most Beloved Heroines
208. “Tip-of-the-Tongue Syndrome,” Transactive Memory, and How the Internet Is Making Us Smarter
209. David Foster Wallace on Writing, Death, and Redemption
210. How Antidepressants Affect Selfhood, Teenage Sexuality, and Our Quest for Personal Identity
211. Neil Gaiman’s Advice to Aspiring Writers
212. Stephen Jay Gould, the Greatest Science Essayist of All Time, on Evolution and Storytelling
213. Nurse Lugton’s Curtain: Virginia Woolf’s Little-Known Children’s Story, in Gorgeous Watercolors
214. Beneath the Rainbow: Enchanting Stories and Poems from Kenya, Illustrated by African Artists
215. Sex on Six Legs: What Insects Teach Us about Ourselves
216. Sendak, Carle, Provensen, and 20 Other Beloved Illustrators’ Advice to Children on Being an Artist
217. How to Do the “Step-and-Slide”: The Rules of Avoidance, Alignment, and Attraction for Deft Urban Walking
218. How to Build a Universe: Philip K. Dick on Reality, Media Manipulation, and Human Heroism
219. Conspicuous Outrage: Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf’s Nephew, on Sartorial Morality, the Art of Fashion, and the Futility of War
220. Leo Tolstoy on Emotional Infectiousness and What Separates Good Art from the Bad
221. Italo Calvino on America
222. What Is Creativity? Cultural Icons on What Ideation Is and How It Works
223. The Creators of “Go the F*ck to Sleep” on Werner Herzog’s Irreverent Reading
224. Salinger and the Architecture of Personal Mythology
225. James Joyce’s Humorous Morphology of the Many Outrageous Myths about Him
226. Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Art of the Soundbite
227. Charles Bukowski on Writing and His Crazy Daily Routine
228. Gorgeous Vintage Illustrations for Aesop’s Fables by Alice and Martin Provensen
229. Maurice Sendak’s Little-Known and Lovely Posters Celebrating Books and the Joy of Reading
230. Mr. Tiger Goes Wild: A Charming Modern-Day Fable about Authenticity and Acceptance
231. F. Scott Fitzgerald Reads John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
232. Jorge Luis Borges on Writing: Wisdom from His Most Candid Interviews
233. Emma Darwin’s Stirring Love Letter to Charles
234. Seamus Heaney Reads “Death of a Naturalist” and His Nobel Lecture on the Power of Poetry
235. William Faulkner’s Little-Known Jazz Age Drawings, with a Side of Literary Derision
236. Henry Hikes to Fitchburg: Lovely Illustrated Children’s Adaptation of Thoreau’s Philosophy, Full of Universal Wisdom for All
237. John Locke on Knowledge, Understanding, and Why Not to Borrow Your Opinions from Others
238. Rare Book Feast: John Christopher Jones’s Seminal Vintage Vision for the Future of Design
239. The Art of NASA: Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, Norman Rockwell, and Other Icons Celebrate 50 Years of Space Exploration
240. The Art of Thought: A Pioneering 1926 Model of the Four Stages of Creativity
241. Isaac Asimov’s Wise and Witty Response to Those Who Question the Value of Investing in Space Exploration
242. Oscar Wilde on Art and Cultivating the Crucial Temperament of Receptivity
243. To Be or Not To Be: Hamlet as a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Novel
244. The Shape of Spectacular Speech: An Infographic Analysis of What Made MLK’s “I Have a Dream” So Powerful
245. Neil deGrasse Tyson and Neil Gaiman on the Secret of Genius
246. Michael Lewis on Writing, Money, and the Necessary Self-Delusion of Creativity
247. Culinary Advice from James Beard, Illustrated by the Provensens
248. How to Tell Love from Lust: A Timeless 1929 Litmus Test from E.B. White and James Thurber
249. Brian Cox on What Earthly Phenomena Reveal about the Wonders of the Solar System
250. Science, Religion, and the Big Bang: An Animated Clarifier
251. 10 Rules for Creative Projects from Iconic Painter Richard Diebenkorn
252. Ray Bradbury on Writing, Emotion vs. Intelligence, and the Core of Creativity
253. Pioneering 19th-Century Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Education and Women in Science
254. Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing
255. Feeding the Mind: Lewis Carroll’s Rules for a Fine Information Diet and Healthy Intellectual Digestion
256. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
257. Pioneering Primatologist Jane Goodall’s Children’s Book about the Healing Power of Pet Love
258. E. B. White’s Love Letter to His Wife on the Occasion of Her Pregnancy, “Written” by Their Dog
259. Carving Culture: Sculptural Masterpieces Made from Old Books
260. The Magic of Metaphor: What Children’s Minds Reveal about the Evolution of the Imagination
261. France Is Free: Anaïs Nin and Ernest Hemingway on the Liberation of Paris, August 19, 1944
262. This Is Israel: Miroslav Sasek’s Iconic Vintage Children’s Book, as an Animated Short Film
263. Salvador Dalí Illustrates the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac
264. The Magic and Logic of Color: How Josef Albers Revolutionized Visual Culture and the Art of Seeing
265. Patti Smith’s Advice to the Young, by Way of William S. Burroughs
266. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Feisty Critique of Le Corbusier, Philip Johnson, Education, and the NYC Skyline
267. Inclining the Mind Toward “Sudden Illumination”: French Polymath Henri Poincaré on How Creativity Works
268. The Freedom of the Press: George Orwell on the Media’s Toxic Self-Censorship
269. How Beloved Chef and Entrepreneur Julia Child Conquered the World: An Illustrated Life Story
270. How Einstein Thought: Why “Combinatory Play” Is the Secret of Genius
271. Vibrant Vintage Illustrations of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey by Alice and Martin Provensen
272. Religion vs. Humanism: Isaac Asimov on Science and Spirituality
273. How to Optimize Your Brain: Why Refining Emotional Recall is the Secret to Better Memory
274. Happy Birthday, Paul Barstch: Toast with a Cocktail Recipe by the Pioneering Zoologist and Explorer
275. The Making of a 21st-Century Illuminated Manuscript: Inside Debbie Millman’s Creative Process
276. Salvador Dalí Illustrates Montaigne: Sublime Surrealism from a Rare 1947 Limited Edition, Signed by Dalí
277. The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland
278. The Story of a Cover Girl: Leading Designers and Illustrators Reimagine Nabokov’s Lolita
279. Charles Bukowski Reads His “Friendly Advice to a Lot of Young Men” and Shares His Advice on Creativity
280. Stunning Illustrations for Irish Myths and Legends
281. Annie Dillard on Writing
282. The Big Feminist BUT: The Caveats of Gender Politics in Comics
283. Richard Feynman on the Meaning of Life
284. The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Guide to Dining Etiquette
285. A Moving Meditation on Gender Identity
286. The Comic Book Universe, Distilled in Infographics
287. If William Shakespeare Had Written Star Wars
288. Outer Space Humor: Vintage Illustrated Astro-Jokes from the Zenith of the Space Race
289. BBC’s Rare 1981 Andy Warhol Interview
290. How to Apologize for Standing Someone Up: A Lesson from Lewis Carroll’s Hilarious Letter
291. Bedroom via Kitchen: What Food Preferences Reveal about You and Your Romantic Partner
292. Synesthesia and the Poetry of Numbers: Autistic Savant Daniel Tammet on Literature, Math, and Empathy, by Way of Borges
293. The Book of Mean People: Toni Morrison’s Children’s Allegory about Kindness and Context
294. Frida Kahlo’s Politics
295. Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Beautiful Letter of Affection and Appreciation to Her Mother
296. Stunning Handcrafted Felt-on-Felt Typographic Homage to Melville’s Moby-Dick
297. Gay Talese’s First Mac: The Godfather of Literary Journalism on His Secret Love of Typography
298. Pioneering Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Science and Life: Timeless Wisdom from Her Diaries
299. A Eulogy to Words: The Only Recording of Virginia Woolf’s Voice, Adapted for Chamber Orchestra
300. How to Block a Surveillance Camera: A DIY Art Tutorial from Ai Weiwei
301. Art and Accidental Literature: Lynda Barry + Lord Chesterfield
302. David Ogilvy’s Timeless Principles of Creative Management
303. The Best Books on Writing, NYC, Animals, and More: A Collaboration with the New York Public Library
304. Susan Sontag on Sex
305. Hemingway’s Ideas of Heaven and Hell: The 26-Year-Old Author’s Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald
306. What the Psychology of Suicide Prevention Teaches Us About Controlling Our Everyday Worries
307. 10 Famous Creators’ Secret Obsessions and Little-Known Talents
308. Iconic Psychiatrist Carl Jung on Human Personality in Rare BBC Interview
309. How to Quit Your Job Like Sherwood Anderson: The Best Resignation Letter Ever Written
310. Gorgeous Vintage and Modern Illustrations from Aldous Huxley’s Only Children’s Book
311. George Bernard Shaw on Marriage, the Oppression of Women, and the Hypocrisies of Monogamy
312. How We Got “Please” and “Thank You”
313. Open House for Butterflies: Ruth Krauss’s Final and Loveliest Collaboration with Maurice Sendak
314. The Cat and the Devil: Rare Illustrations from James Joyce’s Little-Known Children’s Story
315. Trailblazing Astronomer Vera Rubin on Science, Stereotypes, and Success
316. Amelia Earhart on Motivation, Education, and Human Nature in Letters to Her Mother
317. Alexandre Dumas on the 3 Types of Appetites, 3 Types of Gluttony, and Perfect Number of Dinner Guests
318. The Only Surviving Recording of Raymond Chandler’s Voice, in a BBC Conversation with Ian Fleming
319. Brian Cox on Why Science Is Essential to Modern Democracy
320. The Lincoln of Literature: Mark Twain, The Atlantic, and the Making of the Middlebrow Magazine
321. If Gorey and Sendak Had Illustrated Kafka for Kids
322. When Edward Gorey Illustrated Dracula: Two Masters of the Macabre, Together
323. Isaac Asimov’s Fan Mail to Young Carl Sagan
324. Richard Feynman on Good and Evil, the Zen of Science, and His Lovely Prose Poem About the Glory of Evolution
325. 10 Tips on Writing from Joyce Carol Oates
326. It’s Only Music: Alfred Wertheimer’s Never-Before-Seen Photos of Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll
327. Sleep and the Teenage Brain
328. Maurice Sendak, Teacher: Lessons on Art, Storytelling, and Life from the Beloved Artist’s 1971 Yale Course
329. Fear and Loathing in Modern Media: Hunter S. Thompson on Journalism, Politics, and the Subjective
330. Pardon the Egg Salad Stains, But I’m in Love: Billy Collins Reads His Poem “Marginalia”
331. I Got Two Dogs: A Charming Children’s Book-and-Song by John Lithgow
332. Alice and Martin Provensen’s Stunning Vintage Illustrations for Twelve Classic Fairy Tales
333. Why Time Slows Down When We’re Afraid, Speeds Up as We Age, and Gets Warped on Vacation
334. Susan Sontag’s Bulletpointed Bodily Self-Portrait
335. Poets in Partnership: Rare 1961 BBC Interview with Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes on Literature and Love
336. The Big Box: Toni Morrison’s Darkly Philosophical Children’s Book, a Collaboration with Her Son
337. Oscar Wilde’s Stirring Love Letters to Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas
338. Beloved Painter and Philosopher Robert Henri on How Art Binds Us Together
339. Do Scientists Pray? Einstein Answers a Little Girl’s Question about Science vs. Religion
340. Ever Rethinking the Lord’s Prayer: Buckminster Fuller Revises Scripture with Science
341. Thoreau on Friendship, Consciousness, and Seeing Kinship Across Our Creaturely Differences
342. I’ll Be You and You Be Me: A Vintage Ode to Friendship and the Imagination, Illustrated by Young Maurice Sendak
343. The 7-Word Autobiographies of Famous Writers, Artists, Musicians, and Philosophers
344. David Lynch on Using Meditation as an Anchor of Creative Integrity
345. Frida Kahlo’s DIY Paint Recipe
346. Edward Gorey’s Vintage Book Covers for Literary Classics
347. A Brief Visual History of Space and Astronomy in 250 Milestones
348. Sylvia Plath Reads Her Moving Poem “Tulips”: A Rare 1961 BBC Recording
349. Vi Hart Explains Stravinsky’s Atonal Compositions and Why We Hear Music the Way We Do
350. Modern Masterpieces of Comedic Genius: The Art of the Humorous Amazon Review
351. Mme. Curie Is Dead; Martyr to Science: The New York Times’ Stirring Obituary for Marie Curie
352. The Graphic Canon of Literary Comics: From Virginia Woolf to James Joyce, Visual Artists Take on The Classics
353. Carl Sagan on the Meaning of Life
354. BBC’s The Beauty of Books: Penguin, Orwell, and the Paperback Cover Design Revolution
355. Do Everything Well: Lord Chesterfield on the Art of Dress
356. Walt Whitman Reads “America”: The Only Surviving Recording of the Beloved Poet’s Voice
357. Gay Talese’s Daily Routine, Plus a Money-Saving Tip from the Godfather of Literary Journalism
358. A Child’s Calendar: John Updike’s Little-Known Vintage Book, Updated to Celebrate Diversity
359. Beware of Beauty Overload: The Adaptive Eye of the Beholder
360. Stunning Laser-Cut Paper Illustrations of Macbeth
361. A Visual History of Magic
362. The True Science of Spinach and What the Popeye Mythology Teaches Us about How Error Spreads
363. Survival of the Prettiest: Harvard Cognitive Scientist Nancy Etcoff on the Science of Beauty
364. How Relationships Refine Our Truths: Adrienne Rich on the Dignity of Love
365. Kids on Gender Politics: Amusing and Poignant Responses from Children in the 1970s-1980s
366. Down with DOMA: Edith Windsor’s Historic Call with President Obama, Illustrated by Debbie Millman
367. After Stonewall: The First-Ever Pride Parades, In Vintage Photos
368. Happy Birthday, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: 21 Essential Reads on Education
369. Faces of Justice: Mariana Cook’s Portraits of Human Rights Leaders
370. Scandal, Censorship, Science: How Darwin Shaped Our Understanding of Why Language Exists
371. 14-Year-Old George Washington’s 110 Commandments for Cultivating Character
372. Legendary Optimist Helen Keller on Her Greatest Regret
373. Iconic Graphic Designer Milton Glaser on Art, Education, and the Kindness of the Universe
374. Italo Calvino’s Poetic Résumé
375. The Dark: An Illustrated Meditation on Overcoming Fear from Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen
376. George Lucas, John Lithgow, and Other Luminaries on How the Humanities Make Us Human
377. Bill Moggridge, Designer of the First Laptop, on Human-Centered Design
378. Thoreau on Why Not to Quote Thoreau
379. Annie Dillard on What a Stunt Pilot Knows About Impermanence, Creativity, and the Meaning of Life
380. The Surprising History of the Pencil
381. James Gandolfini Reads Maurice Sendak’s Most Controversial Book
382. Virginia Woolf’s Never-Before-Seen Witty Family Newspaper, Illustrated by Her Nephew, Quentin Bell
383. Turning Abruptly from Friendship to Love: Sartre’s Piercing Love Letter to Simone Jollivet
384. Helen Keller on Optimism
385. The Seducer’s Cookbook: A Vintage Guide to the Lost Art of Seduction
386. Tennessee Williams Reads Two Stirring Poems by Hart Crane
387. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on What It Takes to Be Free from Fear
388. If the Web Preceded Print: The New Golden Age of Book Design and Creativity on Paper
389. Maurice Sendak Illustrates Tolstoy
390. Kierkegaard on Why Anxiety Powers Creativity Rather Than Hindering It
391. How Inviting the Unknown Helps Us Know Life More Richly
392. How to Make a Ricky Board: A Creative Exercise from David Lynch
393. How Charles Eames Proposed to Ray Eames: His Disarming 1941 Handwritten Love Letter
394. Barthes’s Likes and Dislikes, Illustrated
395. Nabokov on Inspiration and the Six Short Stories Everyone Should Read
396. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Your Ego and the Cosmic Perspective
397. The Secret to Learning Anything: Albert Einstein’s Advice to His Son
398. The Rap Guide to Evolution: Baba Brinkman’s Homage to Darwin
399. How Our Vision Works
400. Maya Angelou on Freedom: A 1973 Conversation with Bill Moyers
401. The Lonesome Traveler: Kerouac’s Tour of the Unseen New York
402. Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Poems for Young People
403. Carl Sagan on Science and Spirituality
404. Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
405. Original Mad Man David Ogilvy on the 10 Qualities of Creative Leaders
406. Horizontal vs. Vertical Identity and How Love Both Changes Us and Makes Us More Ourselves
407. Darwin’s Life, Adapted in Poems by His Great-Great-Granddaughter
408. Design in a Nutshell: One-Minute Animated Primers on Six Major Creative Movements
409. Italo Calvino on Writing: Selected Wisdom from a Lifetime of Letters
410. Happy 50th Birthday, Equal Pay Act: A Brief History and Future of the Gender Wage Gap
411. Philosopher Judith Butler on the Value of the Humanities and Why We Read
412. Conjuring Cohesion and Purpose: How Ursula Nordstrom Cultivated Maurice Sendak’s Genius
413. How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives: Annie Dillard on Choosing Presence Over Productivity
414. The Lives of 10 Famous Painters, Visualized as Minimalist Infographic Biographies
415. Taschen’s Jazz: An Illustrated Portrait of New York in the Roaring Twenties
416. President Obama and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on Ending Rape in the Military
417. The Quartet of Creativity: 28-Year-Old Susan Sontag on the Four People a Great Writer Must Be
418. June 6, 1917: Edna St. Vincent Millay Almost Gets Banned from Her Own Graduation
419. Cupid’s Conflicted Arrow: Swiss Philosopher Henri-Frédéric Amiel on Love and Its Demons
420. Love Over Biology: Jennifer Finney Boylan on What It’s Like to Be a Transgender Parent
421. Advice for Travel and Life: Founding Father Benjamin Rush’s 14 Rules for His Young Son, 1796
422. T.S. Eliot Reads T.S. Eliot: “The Ad-dressing of Cats,” 1947
423. Italo Calvino on Abortion and the Meaning of Life
424. Max Out Your Humanity: Oprah’s Harvard Commencement Address on Failure & Finding Your Purpose
425. Do It: 20 Years of Famous Artists’ Irreverent Instructions for Art Anyone Can Make
426. Space for Equality: NASA Joins the It Gets Better Project
427. Patti Smith Reads Her Poetic Tribute to Robert Mapplethorpe
428. James Earl Jones Reads from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
429. Remoralizing Marriage: Dan Savage in Conversation with Andrew Sullivan at NYPL
430. The Duality of the Adventurer’s Spirit: A 1929 Meditation on Our Core Contradictions
431. Coffee, It’s a Man’s Drink: Esquire’s Vintage Rules for Brewing the Perfect Cup
432. Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Playful Self-Portrait in Verse
433. Be All Your Selves: Joss Whedon’s 2013 Wesleyan Commencement Address on Embracing Our Inner Contradictions
434. Be Like Water: The Philosophy and Origin of Bruce Lee’s Famous Metaphor for Resilience
435. Amanda Palmer on Creativity as Connecting Dots and the Terrifying Joy of Sharing Your Art Online
436. Intuition Pumps: Daniel Dennett on the Dignity of Being Wrong and Art-Science of Making Fertile Mistakes
437. The Power of Process: What Young Mozart Teaches Us About the Secret of Cultivating Genius
438. Gay Talese’s Portrait of the Tallest Man in New York
439. Henry Miller’s Notice to Visitors
440. Id-Grids and Ego-Graphs: A Typographic Confabulation with Finnegans Wake
441. The Philosophy of Immortality
442. Marguerite Duras on the Art of Seeing and the Essence of Life, Illustrated
443. Love Letter as Obituary: How To Praise Like Legendary Ad Man David Ogilvy
444. Uncommon Genius: Stephen Jay Gould on Why Dot-Connecting Is the Key to Creativity
445. Presence, Not Praise: How To Cultivate a Healthy Relationship with Achievement
446. How to Hone Your Creative Routine and Master the Pace of Productivity
447. Edna St. Vincent Millay on the Power of Music
448. Delicious Vintage Food PSA Posters
449. Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success: 2013 Smith College Commencement Address
450. Your Cousin, the Blade of Grass: Brian Cox on the Wonders of Life
451. Patti Smith’s Lettuce Soup Recipe for Starving Artists
452. Good Writing vs. Talented Writing
453. May 20, 1990: Advice on Life and Creative Integrity from Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson
454. Editorial Manners 101: Raymond Chandler Tells The Atlantic Off
455. How Creativity in Humor, Art, and Science Works: Arthur Koestler’s Theory of Bisociation
456. Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling Critique the Media
457. Gender Politics and the English Language, Pete Seeger Edition
458. Wild Ones: What an Obscure Endangered Butterfly Teaches Us About Parenthood and Being Human
459. No Kidding: Women Writers and Comedians on the Choice Not to Have Children
460. Gorgeous Black-and-White Vintage Photos of Early NASA Facilities
461. Why Adrienne Rich Became the Only Person to Decline the National Medal of Arts
462. Fail Safe: Debbie Millman’s Advice on Courage and the Creative Life
463. Brian Eno on Art, Confidence, and How Attention Creates Value
464. Make Good Art: Neil Gaiman’s Advice on the Creative Life, Adapted by Design Legend Chip Kidd
465. How to Make the Perfect Cup of Tea: George Orwell’s 11 Golden Rules
466. Heinz Haber, Disney’s Chief Scientist, Explains the Atom in 1957
467. The Mighty Lalouche: A Heartening Underdog Story Illustrated by the Great Sophie Blackall
468. How to Worry Less About Money: Financial Planning Lessons from Goethe
469. Greil Marcus on How the Division of High vs. Low Robs Culture of Its Essence
470. From Abigail Adams to Maya Angelou, History’s Finest Letters of Motherly Advice
471. The Politics of Homosexuality, 20 Years Later
472. Don’t Go Back to School: How to Fuel the Internal Engine of Learning
473. Darwin’s Daily Routine
474. Uncommon Grounds: How Coffee Changed the World
475. Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose: The Science of What Motivates Us, Animated
476. Raymond Chandler on Writing: A Lifetime of Wisdom on the Craft from His Private Letters
477. Nellie Was a Lady: 1945 Radio Dramatization of Pioneering Journalist Nellie Bly’s Life
478. David Foster Wallace’s Timeless Graduation Speech on the Meaning of Life, Adapted in a Short Film
479. Our Objects, Ourselves
480. Letters to Ms.: How Mary Thom Built “Social Media” for Women’s Rights in the 1970s
481. The Designer Says: The Collected Quips and Wisdom of Famous Graphic Designers
482. Cats, Guns, and Books: William S. Burroughs’s Daily Routine
483. Why War: Einstein and Freud’s Little-Known Correspondence on Violence, Peace, and Human Nature
484. Massimo Vignelli on the Secret of Great Book Design
485. Love and Art: The Secret to a Romantic Relationship That’s Also a Creative Collaboration
486. Life Doesn’t Frighten Me: Maya Angelou’s Courageous Children’s Verses, Illustrated by Basquiat
487. Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers
488. How to Pack Like Pioneering Journalist Nellie Bly, Who Circumnavigated the Globe in 1889 with Just a Small Duffle Bag
489. Gun Control Fail, 1944 Edition
490. The Mansion of Many Apartments: John Keats’s Metaphor for Life
491. Who Invented Writing? An Animated Historical Detective Story
492. Brand Thinking: Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell, Dan Pink, and Other Mavens on How and Why We Define Ourselves Through Stuff
493. Star Wars Reimagined as a Muppets Comic: A 1983 Mashup
494. Cosmic Apprentice: Dorion Sagan on Why Science and Philosophy Need Each Other
495. April 30, 1945: Mussolini Executed
496. Margaret Atwood on Literature’s Women Problem
497. How One of Literature’s Greatest Loves Began: The Fateful Meeting of Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein
498. A Natural History of Love
499. On Craftsmanship: The Only Surviving Recording of Virginia Woolf’s Voice, 1937
500. Susan Sontag on Why Lists Appeal to Us, Plus Her Listed Likes and Dislikes
501. Ancient Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs
502. Literary Pets: The Cats, Dogs, and Birds Famous Authors Loved
503. Proust’s Previously Unknown Illustrated Poems
504. The Paris Review Origin Story and Their Secret to the Art of the Interview
505. What Is Nothing? A Mind-Bending Debate about the Universe Moderated by Neil deGrasse Tyson
506. How Cooking Civilized Us: Michael Pollan on Food as Social Glue and Anti-Corporate Activism
507. How to Create the Perfect Wife
508. The First Book of Firemen, 1951
509. William Wordsworth on Pleasure as the Shared Heart of Poetry and Science
510. Daily Rituals: A Guided Tour of Writers’ and Artists’ Creative Habits
511. How to Find Fulfilling Work
512. 14 Ways to Acquire Knowledge: A Timeless Guide from 1936
513. Nabokov and Homeland Security: How Russia’s Most Revered Literary Émigré Became an American
514. Meet Marty Cooper, Inventor of the Cell Phone
515. To This Day: A Collaborative Animated Spoken-Word Poem About the Lifelong Pain of Bullying
516. Hemingway on Writing, Knowledge, and the Dangers of Ego
517. Frida Kahlo’s Passionate Hand-Written Love Letters to Diego Rivera
518. E.B. White on the Art of the Essay and Why Egotism Is Essential for the Essay Writer
519. David Foster Wallace on Ambition, Animated
520. Legendary Composer Leonard Bernstein on the Future of Music, Harvard 1973
521. The First Book of Space Travel: How a Woman Writer and Illustrator Enchanted Kids with Science in 1953
522. The Art of Conversation: Timeless, Timely Do’s and Don’ts from 1866
523. The Artists’ & Writers’ Cookbook: A Rare 1961 Treasure Trove of Unusual Recipes and Creative Wit
524. How Attractive Are You To The Opposite Sex? Esquire’s 1949 Questionnaire
525. The Writer’s Technique in Thirteen Theses: Walter Benjamin’s Timeless Advice on Writing
526. Willa Cather’s Only Surviving Letter to Her Partner, Edith Lewis
527. Modern Art Desserts: From Mondrian Cake to Matisse Parfait
528. Eggs of Things: Anne Sexton and Maxine Cumin’s Science-Inspired 1963 Children’s Book
529. A Theater for Living: Anatomy of European Street Life in 1900
530. My Father’s Arms Are a Boat: A Tender Norwegian Tale of Love and Loss
531. T. S. Eliot’s Iconic Vintage Verses About Cats, Illustrated and Signed by Edward Gorey
532. Anne Sexton’s Report Card
533. The Difference Between Curiosity and Wonder and How It Shaped the Science vs. Scripture Divide
534. Henry Miller on the Joy of Urination
535. How Elvis Presley Ushered in the Era of Teen Consumer Culture
536. Givers, Takers, and Matchers: The Surprising Psychology of Success
537. Lost Cat: An Illustrated Meditation on Love, Loss, and What It Means To Be Human
538. An Illustrated Tour of All the Buildings in New York
539. How the Universe Was Born: An Animated Explanation from CERN
540. Jackson Pollock on Art, Labels, and Morality, Shortly Before His Death
541. Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to the Book”
542. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Made More Wonderful by Graphic Artist Michael Sieben
543. Malcolm Cowley on the Four Stages of Writing: Lessons from the First Five Years of The Paris Review
544. On Loves, Lunacies, and Losses: The Little-Known Poetry of Mark Twain
545. Francis Bacon on the Dark Side of Curiosity and the Vanity of Knowledge
546. Beloved Film Critic Roger Ebert on Writing, Life, and Mortality
547. E. E. Cummings Reads “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” (Harvard, 1953)
548. The Bed Book: Sylvia Plath’s Vintage Poems for Kids, Illustrated by Quentin Blake
549. Advice to Little Girls: Young Mark Twain’s Little-Known, Lovely 1865 Children’s Book
550. The Art of Living: A 1924 Guide
551. Isaac Asimov on Curiosity, Taking Risk, and the Value of Space Exploration in Muppet Magazine
552. George Plimpton on the Art of Public Speaking and How to Overcome Stage Fright
553. The True Science of Parallel Universes, Animated
554. Marriage Equality for Kids: The True Story of Central Park Zoo’s Gay Penguin Family, Illustrated
555. Prospero’s Precepts: 11 Rules for Critical Thinking from Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds
556. Mapping Manhattan: A Love Letter in Subjective Cartography by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Malcolm Gladwell, Yoko Ono & 72 Other New Yorkers
557. The Science of How Your Mind-Wandering Is Robbing You of Happiness
558. Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah: An Uncommon Portrait of Alan Turing, Godfather of Modern Computing
559. How Abraham Maslow and His Humanistic Psychology Shaped the Modern Self
560. Missives from Muggings: The Audacious Requests Mark Twain Received from His Fans and His Wry Responses
561. Afterwords: Moving Letters of Condolence on Virginia Woolf’s Death
562. The Art of Observation and Why Genius Lies in the Selection of What Is Worth Observing
563. Things Nabokov Hates
564. The Art of Cleanup: Ursus Wehrli Playfully Deconstructs and Reorders the Chaos of Life
565. The It-Doesn’t-Matter Suit: Sylvia Plath’s Little-Known, Lovely Children’s Book
566. Iconic Designer Henry Dreyfuss on Beauty, Serenity, and Shaping Public Taste
567. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins: An Atheist’s Animated Altercation with God
568. History’s 100 Geniuses of Language and Literature, Visualized
569. Tender Buttons: Gertrude Stein’s Vintage Verses About Objects, Illustrated by Lisa Congdon
570. Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning
571. Gay Talese’s Field Guide to the Social Order of New York’s Cats, Illustrated
572. The Mortality Paradox
573. Iconic Painter Agnes Martin on Art, Solitude, and the Secret of Happiness
574. Mark Twain’s Fan Mail
575. In Which Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw Collide on Their Bicycles
576. How Geography Paved the Way for Women in Science and Cultivated the Values of American Democracy
577. Henry Miller on the Meaning and Mystery of Life
578. Work Alone: Ernest Hemingway’s 1954 Nobel Acceptance Speech
579. Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Godmother of Rock and Roll, Live in Manchester in 1964
580. A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Vintage Illustrated Verses for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
581. Sign Painters: What a Disappearing Art Teaches Us About Creative Purpose and Process
582. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Behind the Bomb
583. The Philosophy of Style: Herbert Spencer on the Economy of Attention and the Ideal Writer (1852)
584. Stress As Metaphor
585. Tolstoy Reads from His ‘Calendar of Wisdom’ in a Rare Recording Shortly Before His Death
586. Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls: Mischievous Vintage Illustrated Verses by Shel Silverstein, A. A. Milne, Lewis Carroll, and Ted Hughes
587. A Design History of Childhood
588. How Not To Worry: Timeless 1934 Advice on Controlling Anxiety and Mastering Life
589. Sorted Books Revisited: Artist Nina Katchadourian’s Playfully Arranged Book Spine Sentences
590. A Calendar of Wisdom: Tolstoy on Knowledge and the Meaning of Life
591. Wondrous the Merge: Why Love Knows No Boundaries
592. How China’s First Emperor Pioneered Design Thinking and Revolutionized the Branding of Legacy
593. Joy Williams’s Daily Writing Routine
594. Cats vs. Dogs: A Poem by T. S. Eliot, with Stunning Vintage Illustrations by Dame Eileen Mayo
595. Stephen King on Writing, Fear, and the Atrocity of Adverbs
596. Three Poems by James Joyce
597. Alexander Graham Bell on Success, Innovation, and Creativity
598. Tarkovsky’s Advice to the Young: Learn to Enjoy Your Own Company
599. Susan Orlean on Writing
600. The Green Beads: Edward Gorey and the “Disturbed Person”
601. How to Enjoy Poetry
602. Clare Boothe Luce’s Advice to Her 18-Year-Old Daughter
603. You Are Stardust: Stunning Illustrated Dioramas Teaching Kids About the Universe
604. How Our Government Helps Us, in Vibrant Vintage Illustrations from 1969
605. Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
606. Gertrude Stein Reads “A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson”
607. The Speech Chain: A Vintage Illustrated Guide to the Science of Language
608. Illustrators and Visual Storytellers Map the World
609. Sexology Circa 1942: Vintage Anatomical Charts of the Male and Female Body, as Animated GIFs
610. Waving to Virginia: Patti Smith Reads Woolf
611. Virginia Woolf on How to Read a Book
612. Richard Feynman on the Universal Responsibility of Scientists
613. Publishing and Its Discontents, 1948 Edition
614. The Lady and Her Monsters: Real-Life Frankensteins and How Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece Came to Life
615. Amanda Palmer on the Art of Asking and the Shared Dignity of Giving and Receiving
616. The History of Photography, Animated
617. The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, Illustrated
618. Cultural Icons on Criticism
619. The Proud Surrender: Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Love Letters to Edith Wynn Matthison
620. What Is a Poem? Coleridge on Science vs. Romance, 1817
621. Stardust: A Mesmerizing Short Film About the Voyager 1 and the Wonder of the Universe
622. How To Take a Bath: And Other Vintage Visual Guides from the Early 1900s
623. Oppression by Omission: The Untold Story of the Women Soldiers Who Dressed and Fought as Men in the Civil War
624. The Age of Edison: Radical Invention and the Illuminated World
625. Lord Chesterfield on the Art of Pleasing: Outlandish Advice to His Teenage Son, 1748
626. A Pictorial History of the London Tube and Its Graphic Legacy
627. How to Tame Trolls: Vi Hart on Dealing with Negative Comments
628. Sister Corita Kent’s Timeless Rules for Learning and Life, Hand-Lettered by Lisa Congdon
629. 10½ Favorite Reads from TED Bookstore 2013
630. What Now? Advice on Writing and Life from Ann Patchett
631. February 25, 1956: Sylvia Plath Meets Ted Hughes in One of Literary History’s Steamiest Encounters
632. Virginia Woolf on the Language of Film and the Evils of Cinematic Adaptations of Literature
633. Dear John: Rare Recording of a Vietnam War Soldier Reading a Breakup Letter from Home
634. Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich on Art vs. Design and the Joy of Losing Yourself in Purposeful Work
635. Mary Gordon on the Joy of Notebooks and How Writing by Hand Catalyzes Creativity
636. Edward Gorey’s Vintage Illustrations for H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds
637. Bertrand Russell on Human Nature, Construction vs. Destruction, and Science as a Key to Democracy
638. A Cat-Hater’s Handbook: Irreverent Vintage Gem Illustrated by Tomi Ungerer
639. William Butler Yeats on Modern Poetry: A Rare 1936 BBC Recording
640. Anaïs Nin on Real Love, Illustrated by Debbie Millman
641. Inside Kurt Cobain’s Letters and Journals
642. Famous Graphic Designers Offer Advice on Design and Life to the Young
643. Happy Birthday, United Amateur Press Association: H. P. Lovecraft on the Early Spirit of “Blogging”
644. The Feminine Mystique Half a Century Later
645. Order to the Chaos of Life: Isabel Allende on Writing
646. Cosmic Pastoral: Diane Ackerman’s Poems for the Planets, Which Carl Sagan Sent Timothy Leary in Prison
647. Illustrator Sophie Blackall on Subversive Storytelling, Missed Connections, and Optimism
648. Our Friend the Atom: Disney’s 1956 Illustrated Propaganda for Nuclear Energy
649. Galileo vs. God: The Father of Modern Science on Religion, Truth, and Human Nature
650. The Art of Kissing: A 1936 Guide for Lovers
651. Alain de Botton on How to Think More About Sex
652. Alexander Graham Bell on Originality, Plagiarism, Language, and Education
653. The Pale Blue Dot: A Timeless Valentine to the Cosmos
654. Uncreative Writing: Redefining Language and Authorship in the Digital Age
655. A Visualization of Global “Brain Drain” in Science Inspired by Abstract Art
656. A Graphic Biography of Darwin
657. How to Save Science: Education, the Gender Gap, and the Next Generation of Creative Thinkers
658. High Times: An Illustrated History of Aviation
659. The Math of Love: Calculating the Odds of Finding Your Soulmate
660. Thomas Edison, Power-Napper: The Great Inventor on Sleep and Success
661. Mathemusician Vi Hart Explains Space-Time with a Music Box and a Möbius Strip
662. What Makes a Great Essay?
663. The Genius of Dogs and How It Expands Our Understanding of Human Intelligence
664. The Quicksand of Existence: Sylvia Plath on Life, Death, Hope, and Happiness
665. Jules Verne: Prophet of Science Fiction
666. How to Be a Decent Person: Charles Dickens’s Letter of Advice to His Youngest Son
667. How Cinelli Revolutionized the Art and Design of the Bicycle
668. Yan Nascimbene’s Stunning Illustrations of Italo Calvino Classics
669. An Addict of Experience: Sylvia Plath’s Sexual Repression and Class Struggle
670. Pictures from Italy: A Whimsical Early Travelogue by Dickens, Newly Illustrated
671. Obey: How the Rise of Mass Propaganda Killed Populism
672. 9 Rules for Success by the Victorian Novelist Amelia E. Barr
673. My Brother’s Book: Maurice Sendak’s Posthumous Love Letter to the World
674. The Shrinking of Treehorn: An Edward Gorey Illustrated Gem, 1971
675. The Unfeathered Bird: An Illustrated History of Avian Anatomy
676. How To Stay Sane: The Art of Revising Your Inner Storytelling
677. Neurologist Oliver Sacks on Memory, Plagiarism, and the Necessary Forgettings of Creativity
678. Susan Sontag’s Radical Vision for Remixing Education
679. The Science of Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg, Animated
680. Why We Write: Mary Karr on the Magnetism and Madness of the Written Word
681. Love in the Age of Data: How One Woman Hacked Her Way to Happily Ever After
682. Ambiverts, Problem-Finders, and the Surprising Psychology of Making Your Ideas Happen
683. How Chemistry Works, in Gorgeous 19th-Century Diagrams
684. An Illustrated Chronicle of the Space Race
685. Why Birds Sing
686. How To Make Great Radio: An Illustrated Guide Starring Ira Glass
687. Anton Chekhov on the 8 Qualities of Cultured People
688. The Mahatma and the Poet: Tagore’s Letters to Gandhi on Power, Morality, and Science
689. Richard Burton Reads John Donne’s Poem “The Flea”
690. The Science of Love: How Positivity Resonance Shapes the Way We Connect
691. Science, Storytelling, and “Gut Churn”: Jad Abumrad on the Secrets of Creative Success
692. Virginia Woolf on the Creative Benefits of Keeping a Diary
693. Happy Birthday, Robert Burns: Prince Charles Reads “My Heart’s in the Highlands”
694. Stephen King on Gun Control and Violence
695. Dorion Sagan on the First Ejaculation in Earth’s History
696. Celebrating Cassandre: Gorgeous Vintage Posters by One of History’s Greatest Graphic Designers
697. The Dogs of NYC: An Interactive Watercolor Map of the City’s Canine Caucus
698. Gertrude Stein Reads from “The Making of Americans” in a Rare Recording from the 1930s
699. Life in Five Seconds: Minimalist Pictogram Summaries of Pop Culture and Historical Events
700. Penn Jillette on Why Every Day is a Holiday
701. Popular Lies About Graphic Design
702. Francis Bacon on Love: Thoughts on the Sublime Emotion from the Father of Empiricism
703. On Art and Government: The Poem Robert Frost Didn’t Read at JFK’s Inauguration
704. Vladimir Nabokov on What Makes a Good Reader
705. How Lantern Slides Revolutionized Education: A Protein Story
706. This Explains Everything: 192 Thinkers on the Most Elegant Theory of How the World Works
707. Remembering Aaron Swartz: David Foster Wallace on the Meaning of Life
708. Vladimir Nabokov on Literature and Life: A Rare 1969 BBC Interview
709. David Byrne’s Hand-Drawn Pencil Diagrams of the Human Condition
710. The Art of Richard Feynman: The Great Physicist’s Little-Known Sketches and Drawings, Collected by His Daughter
711. Benjamin Franklin on True Happiness and the Two Ways of Attaining It
712. Bob Dylan’s 1974 Classic “Forever Young,” Illustrated
713. Can Money Buy Us Happiness? The Psychology of Materialism, Animated
714. How to Read Faster: Bill Cosby’s Three Proven Strategies
715. Gorgeous Vintage British Road Safety Ads, 1939-1946
716. The Edge: Hunter S. Thompson on Life and Death, Animated
717. Francis Bacon on Friendship
718. Beautiful 1921 Woodcuts by Virginia Woolf’s Sister
719. The Night Riders
720. How to Write with Style: Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Keys to the Power of the Written Word
721. Head Garden: A Lyrical Animated Film by Lilli Carré
722. H.P. Lovecraft’s Advice to Aspiring Writers: Timeless Counsel from 1920
723. How People Earn and Use Money: Vibrant Vintage Illustrations from 1968
724. Seventeen-Year-Old Virginia Woolf on Nature, Imitation and the Arts
725. The Science of Why We Are All Female, Animated
726. Iconic Designer Massimo Vignelli on Intellectual Elegance, Education, and Love
727. Chu’s Day: Neil Gaiman’s Charming Children’s Book
728. The Science of Productivity, Animated
729. F. Scott Fitzgerald on the Secret to Great Writing: Letters of Advice to a Friend’s Teenage Daughter and to His Own
730. Sherwood Anderson on Art and Life: A Letter of Advice to His Teenage Son
731. Illustrated Six-Word Memoirs by Students from Grade School to Grad School
732. A Brief History of Time: Rare 1991 Errol Morris Documentary About Stephen Hawking, Free Online
733. The Story of David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust Character
734. Introducing The Reconstructionists: A Yearlong Celebration of History’s Remarkable Women
735. How We Use Maps and Globes: An Illustrated Guide from 1968
736. Charles Addams Illustrates Mother Goose, 1967
737. How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes: Lessons in Mindfulness and Creativity from the Great Detective
738. The Lives They Lived: Artists Remember Cultural Heroes We Lost
739. A Typographic Tour of New York City at Night
740. Terry Gross’s Moving Maurice Sendak Interview, Illustrated by Christoph Niemann
741. Famous Resolution Lists: Jonathan Swift, Susan Sontag, Marilyn Monroe, Woody Guthrie
742. The Birth of Our Modern Obsession with Maps
743. How To Be a Woman
744. Ode to a Flower: Richard Feynman’s Famous Monologue on Knowledge and Mystery, Animated
745. What Is Love? Famous Definitions from 400 Years of Literary History

2012

1. The Best of Brain Pickings 2012
2. British vs. American Politics in Minimalist Vintage Infographics
3. Richard Dawkins on Evidence in Science, Life and Love: A Letter to His 10-Year-Old Daughter
4. Trailblazing Graphic Designer Paula Scher on Creativity
5. The Strange Story of William Faulkner’s Only Children’s Book
6. 10½ Favorite Albums of 2012
7. Chuck Close on Creativity, Work Ethic, and Problem-Solving vs. Problem-Creating
8. Charles Olson Reads “Maximus, to Himself”: A Rare 1963 Recording
9. Vintage Holiday Cover Designs for Radio Times Magazine
10. How People Live In The Suburbs: A Vintage Illustrated Gem
11. The Best Books of 2012: Your 10 Overall Favorites
12. Eleanor Roosevelt’s Little-Known Children’s Book About Christmas and Hope Amid Humanity’s Darkest Hour
13. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World
14. How to Write Letters: A 19th-Century Guide to the Lost Art of Epistolary Etiquette
15. Simone de Beauvoir on Vitality, the Measure of Intelligence, and What Freedom Really Means
16. The Best Music Books of 2012
17. Illustrated Alphabetic Drop Cap Covers of Literary Classics by Jessica Hische
18. How to Give a Great Presentation: Timeless Advice from a Legendary Adman, 1981
19. In Defense of the Fluid Self: Why Anaïs Nin Turned Down a Harper’s Bazaar Profile
20. The Little Golden Book of Words: A Rare Illustrated Gem from 1948
21. The Overview Effect and the Psychology of Cosmic Awe
22. All the 2012 Best-of Reading Lists, Together at Last
23. Mark Twain on Intelligence vs. Morality
24. 5½ Favorite Food Books of 2012
25. Rent Is Too Damn High, Vonnegut Edition: The Beloved Author’s Housing Woes
26. How to Avoid Work: A 1949 Guide to Doing What You Love
27. The Fine Art of Italian Hand Gestures: A Vintage Visual Dictionary by Bruno Munari
28. The Best Graphic Novels and Graphic Nonfiction of 2012
29. Adrienne Rich on Love, Loss, Public vs. Private Happiness, and the Creative Process
30. Remembering the Godfather of World Music: Ravi Shankar + Philip Glass, 1990
31. More Than Human: Tim Flach’s Striking Portraits of Animals
32. Montaigne on Death and the Art of Living
33. Song Reader: Beck Revives the Romance of Sheet Music with 26 Illustrated Songs
34. The Science of Our Optimism Bias and the Life-Cycle of Happiness
35. Amelia Earhart on Marriage
36. A Secret Illustrated History of Coffee, Coca, and Cola
37. Little Big Books: The Secrets of Great Children’s Book Illustration
38. The Best History Books of 2012
39. Henry Miller on Creative Death
40. Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot, Animated in Motion Graphics
41. The Best Illustrated Children’s Books and Picture Books of 2012
42. Introducing Art Pickings: A Pop-Up Gallery in Partnership with 20×200
43. What’s a Dog For: A Meditation on Love, Loss, and the Art of Presence
44. Adrienne Rich’s 1968 Poem “Gabriel” Read by Tom O’Bedlam
45. The Age of Outrospection: Philosopher Roman Krznaric on Empathy and Social Change
46. Moleskine Detour: Inside Beloved Creative Icons’ Notebooks
47. An ABZ of Love: Kurt Vonnegut’s Favorite Vintage Danish Illustrated Guide to Sexuality
48. Susan Sontag on Moral Courage and the Power of Principled Resistance to Injustice
49. How To Sing: A 1902 Illustrated Guide from the Great German Opera Singer Lilli Lehmann
50. The 10 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2012
51. Berenice Abbott’s Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photographs of Scientific Phenomena
52. Does the Universe Have a Purpose? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Animated
53. Anaïs Nin on Love, Hand-Lettered by Debbie Millman
54. Joseph Conrad on Writing and the Role of the Artist
55. Susan Sontag on Art: Illustrated Diary Excerpts
56. Henry Miller on Writing and Life
57. A Visual History of Nobel Prizes and Notable Laureates, 1901-2012
58. Anatomical Flap-Up Illustrations from 1901 Adapted as Animated GIFs
59. Stendhal on the Seven Stages of Romance and Why We Fall Out of Love: Timeless Wisdom from 1822
60. Emotional Anatomy: Stunning Vintage Illustrations of Somatic Consciousness
61. Maira Kalman on Art and the Power of Not Thinking
62. The Best Design Books of 2012
63. Natural Histories: 500 Years of Rare Scientific Illustrations from the American Museum of Natural History Archives
64. When Babbage and Dickens Waged a War on Noise
65. The Science of Your Brain on Alcohol, Animated
66. The Best Art Books of 2012
67. Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories and Good News vs. Bad News
68. Susan Sontag’s List of Beliefs at Age 14 vs. Age 24
69. How to Use Your Turkey Leftovers: 13 Ideas from F. Scott Fitzgerald
70. Imagination Illustrated: Muppets Creator Jim Henson’s Never-Before-Seen Journals and Sketches
71. The R&D Lab of Creativity: Inside the Sketchbooks of Beloved Illustrators and Designers
72. Fiona Apple’s Stirring Handwritten Letter About Her Dying Dog
73. Bruno Munari on Design as a Bridge Between Art and Life
74. Dutch Illustrator Rop Van Mierlo’s Charming Rorschach-Like Wash Paintings of Wild Animals
75. The Daily Routines of Great Writers
76. Marilyn Monroe’s Turkey Recipe
77. A Visual Timeline of the Future Based on Famous Fiction
78. Tiny Collaborative Stories
79. Geometrical Psychology: Mathematical Models of Consciousness by the 19th-Century Psychologist Benjamin Betts
80. Andrew Zuckerman’s Extraordinary Portraits of Flowers
81. Eleanor Roosevelt on Happiness, Conformity, and Integrity
82. Joan Didion on Keeping a Notebook
83. The Best Science Books of 2012
84. How Thomas Jefferson Pioneered the Tomato, Championed Urban Farming, and Taught Americans to Make Coffee
85. Are We Nearing the Maximum Capacity of the Human Brain?
86. What Makes a Great City: A General Theory of Walkability
87. John Keats’s Porridge: The Favorite Recipes of Beloved Poets
88. Kurt Vonnegut: You’re Allowed To Be In Love Three Times In Your Life
89. The Birth of Sound: Why the Big Bang Was Actually Silent
90. An Illustrated Vintage Bicycle Safety Manual circa 1969
91. Illustrated Bookshelves of Famous Artists’ and Writers’ Favorite Books
92. Britain vs. America in Minimalist Vintage Infographics
93. Changing New York: Berenice Abbott’s Stunning Black-and-White Photos from the 1930s
94. An Animated Open Letter to President Obama on the State of Science Education
95. Philosopher Judith Butler on Doubting Love
96. A Short Poem from Kurt Vonnegut
97. What Will Survive of Us Is Love: Helen Dunmore’s 9 Rules of Writing
98. Anaïs Nin on Embracing the Unfamiliar
99. The Machine That Made Us: Stephen Fry and the BBC Explore Gutenberg’s Legacy
100. Philip Pullman Reimagines the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
101. The Science of “Intuition”
102. The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs
103. Henry Miller on Art, War, and the Future of Humanity
104. The Half-Life of Facts: Dissecting the Predictable Patterns of How Knowledge Grows
105. Scientists and Philosophers Answer Kids’ Most Pressing Questions About How the World Works
106. The Nature of the Fun: David Foster Wallace on Why Writers Write
107. The Beatles Perform Shakespeare in Color, 1964
108. Building Stories: Cartoonist Chris Ware Explores the Architecture of Being Human
109. Kurt Vonnegut’s Daily Routine
110. The Cats of Copenhagen: Delightful Recently Discovered Children’s Story by James Joyce
111. Joy Williams on Why Writers Write
112. How the Gutenberg Press Embodies Combinatorial Creativity
113. Stunning Vintage Illustrations of Don Quixote by Spanish Graphic Design Pioneer Roc Riera Rojas
114. Stunning Spanish Illustrations for The Communist Manifesto
115. The Art of “Negative Capability”: Keats on Embracing Uncertainty and Celebrating the Mysterious
116. A Visual History of New York City’s Destruction in 200 Years of Fiction
117. Grapefruit: Yoko Ono’s Poems, Drawings, and Instructions for Life
118. Francis Bacon on Beauty
119. Alan Watts on Death, in a Beautiful Animated Short Film
120. Illusionist Derren Brown on the Psychology of Gullibility
121. Mind and Cosmos: Philosopher Thomas Nagel’s Brave Critique of Scientific Reductionism
122. Sylvia Plath Reads “A Birthday Present”: A Rare 1962 Recording
123. Susan Sontag on the Creative Purpose of Boredom
124. Stunning Black & White Engravings by Ian Hugo from Anaïs Nin’s Hand-Printed Under a Glass Bell, 1944
125. The Etymology of “Hangover”
126. A History of Reading
127. 100 Ideas That Changed Art
128. Anaïs Nin on Parenting, Character, and Personal Responsibility
129. How to Be a Grouch: A Vintage Sesame Street Guide to Grumpiness
130. Who Could It Be At This Hour? Lemony Snicket Asks All The Wrong Questions
131. 100 Ideas That Changed Photography
132. How a Cat Boosts Your Creativity
133. Faking It: A Visual History of 150 Years of Image Manipulation Before Photoshop
134. The Power of Introverts, Animated
135. The Science of Why We Blush, Animated
136. Rework: Beck and Others Remix the Music of Philip Glass for the Iconic Composer’s 75th Birthday
137. Dance Is Like Thought: Helen Keller Visits Martha Graham’s Studio
138. David DeSteno on the Psychology of Compassion and Resilience
139. So You Want To Be a Writer: Bukowski Debunks the “Tortured Genius” Myth of Creativity
140. Sailing to Byzantium: 13 Songs Based on the Poetry of W. B. Yeats
141. Displays of Affection: Iconic French Cartoonist Sempé Explores Relationship Clichés
142. Vintage Indian Matchbook Labels
143. One-Minute Animated Primers on Major Theories of Religion
144. A Poetic Antidote to City Life
145. Action Philosophers: Two Millennia of Philosophy in Comic Form
146. How the Invention of Walls Gave Rise to Eavesdropping
147. Happy Birthday, Chrysler Building Spire: The Story of an Epic Architectural Rivalry
148. No Decent Woman or Girl is Ever Seen Wearing Trousers: 12 Conduct Rules for Women from Rural Spain
149. Drawing from the City: Exquisite Indian Folk Art Meets Women’s Empowerment
150. Why I Write: Joan Didion on Ego, Grammar, and the Creative Impulse
151. Freud on Creative Writing and Daydreaming
152. When Charles Darwin Hated Everybody
153. Do Not Despise Your Inner World: Advice on a Full Life from Philosopher Martha Nussbaum
154. The Distance of the Moon: Beautiful Israeli Animated Film Based on the Italo Calvino Classic
155. Some of Today’s Hottest Scientific Mysteries, Illustrated by Some of Today’s Coolest Artists
156. The Science of Lucid Dreaming and How to Learn to Control Your Dreams, Animated
157. Eleanor Roosevelt’s Controversial Love Letters to Lorena Hickok
158. As We May Think: Vannevar Bush’s Prescient 1945 Vision for the Information Age, the Power of “Curation,” and the Need for Open-Access Science
159. What Would You Do If Money Were No Object? Alan Watts on the Life of Purpose
160. A Message to Humanity: Charlie Chaplin’s Iconic Speech, Remixed
161. Transformation as Authorship: From Igor Stravinsky to Philip Glass by Way of Disney and Beck
162. A Private History of Happiness: The Art of Living with Presence, from Ptolemy to George Eliot to William Blake
163. Logo Life: The Visual Evolution of 100 Iconic Logos
164. The Wisdom of the Heart: Henry Miller on the Art of Living
165. How Bird Wings Work
166. An Imaginative Dutch Picture-Book Homage to Piet Mondrian
167. Hello Goodbye Hello: Rudyard Kipling Meets Mark Twain Meets Helen Keller
168. R. Crumb Illustrates Bukowski
169. Margaret Atwood’s 10 Rules of Writing
170. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Intelligent Design as a Philosophy of Ignorance
171. The Surprising Science of Why It’s Dark at Night, Animated
172. Emily Dickinson’s Poetry Set to Song by Israeli Singer-Songwriter Efrat Ben Zur
173. On Beauty, Quality, Poetry, and Integrity: Anaïs Nin Meets Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr. (1947)
174. Susan Sontag on Life, Death, Art, and Freedom
175. The Architect Says: A Compendium of Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom from Iconic Architects
176. The Neurochemistry of Empathy, Storytelling, and the Dramatic Arc, Animated
177. Politically Incorrect Advice to the Young from William S. Burroughs, Remixed
178. The Famous Grids of Iconic Cities, Deconstructed and Remixed
179. Graphic Canon vol. 2: Literary Comics from Lewis Carroll to the Brontë Sisters by Way of Darwin
180. Saddam Hussein’s Speeches on Democracy (1977-1978)
181. How to Break Through Your Creative Block: Strategies from 90 of Today’s Most Exciting Creators
182. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
183. Antilamentation: A Poetic Antidote to Regret
184. Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Susan Sontag, Harper Lee, and Other Literary Greats on Censorship
185. Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing
186. Ways of Seeing: John Berger’s Classic 1972 BBC Critique of Consumer Culture
187. Richard Feynman Explains Where Trees Actually Come From and How Fire Works
188. T. S. Eliot on Idea Incubation, Inhibition, and the Mystical Quality of Creativity, Plus a Rare Reading
189. The History of Medicine in 250 Milestones
190. Timeless Lessons in Ingenuity and Entrepreneurship from the Story of Polaroid
191. Minimalist Posters Celebrating Six Pioneering Women in Science
192. William James on the Psychology of Habit
193. Mockup Diagram Drawings of the Interior of the Space Shuttle, 1981
194. Anaïs Nin on the Meaning of Life and the Dangers of the Internet, Before the Internet
195. F. Scott Fitzgerald Responds to Hate Mail
196. Measurement: Exploring the Whimsy of Math through Playful Patterns, Shape and Motion
197. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Scientific Literacy, Education, and the Poetry of the Cosmos
198. Hermann Hesse on What Trees Teach Us About Belonging and Life
199. The Science of Procrastination and How to Manage It, Animated
200. Gertrude Stein on Understanding and Joy: Rare 1934 Radio Interview
201. The Best Science Writing Online 2012, In a Print Book
202. The Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook: A Delicious Time Machine to Post-Edwardian England
203. The Frank Show: An Illustrated Homage to Grandparents and the Art of Looking Twice
204. Zadie Smith’s 10 Rules of Writing
205. The Science of Orgasms and Your Brain on Porn
206. The Elements of the Periodic Table, Personified as Illustrated Heroes
207. Steven Johnson on the “Peer Progressive” Movement and What the Internet Wants
208. The Good Girls Revolt: The Untold Story of the 1970 Lawsuit That Changed the Modern Workplace
209. NASA Remembers Neil Armstrong in a Moving Short Film
210. Charles Bukowski, Arthur C. Clarke, Annie Dillard, John Cage, and Others on the Meaning of Life
211. The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design
212. On “Pure Design” and What Beauty Really Means
213. David Byrne on How Music and Creativity Work
214. Dan Ariely on the Truth About Dishonesty, Animated
215. The Last Pictures: A Time-Capsule of Humanity in 100 Images Sent into Space for Eternity
216. My Struggle: Salvador Dalí’s Credo, Illustrated by Molly Crabapple
217. How to Raise a Child: 10 Rules from Young Susan Sontag
218. Thoughtful Alphabets: Edward Gorey’s Lost Cryptic 26-Word Illustrated Stories
219. Kevin Stanton’s Cut-Paper Illustrations of Romeo and Juliet
220. Ted Hughes on the Universal Inner Child, in a Moving Letter to His Son
221. This Is Water: David Foster Wallace on Life
222. Vintage Posters for Libraries and Reading
223. Richard Feynman on the One Sentence to Be Passed on to the Next Generation
224. Design, Knowledge, and Human Intelligence: RIP Bill Moggridge, Designer of the First Laptop
225. Hand-Lettered Illustrations of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry
226. A Breakup Letter from Simone de Beauvoir
227. The First Ads for Famous Books
228. Why We Cry: The Science of Sobbing and Emotional Tearing
229. No Dream-Laden Adolescent: Anaïs Nin Meets Young Gore Vidal, 1945
230. Pioneers! O Space Pioneers! A Walt Whitman + NASA Mashup
231. Happy Birthday, Voyager 1: An Animated Adaptation of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot
232. Advice to Lovers: Century-Old Poetic Wisdom from Robert Graves
233. Elegantissima: The Design and Typography of Louise Fili
234. Christopher Hitchens on Mortality
235. Words David Foster Wallace’s Mom Invented
236. The Science of “Chunking,” Working Memory, and How Pattern Recognition Fuels Creativity
237. Age of Power and Wonder: Vintage Science Infographics from 1930s Cigarette Cards
238. Ray Bradbury on Libraries, Space Exploration, and the Secret of Life: The Lost Comic-Con Interview
239. Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Writing and Creativity
240. How to Read Like a Writer
241. The Universe in a Nutshell: Michio Kaku on the Physics of Everything
242. Anaïs Nin on Self-Publishing, the Magic of Letterpress, and the Joy of Handcraft
243. How Consciousness Evolved and Why a Planetary “Übermind” Is Inevitable
244. Loren Kantor’s Stark Woodcuts of Legendary Actors and Film Classics
245. How To Run Right
246. The Forms of Things Unknown: A Timeless 1963 Meditation on the Role of the Creative Arts in Society
247. Bear Despair: A Charming Illustrated Wordless Story of Obsession and Perseverance
248. Ezra Pound’s List of the Six Types of Writers, Plus His Two Rules for Forming an Opinion
249. Robert Sapolsky on Science and Wonder
250. Beautiful Stop-Motion Animated Film About the Progression of Alzheimer’s
251. E. E. Cummings Set to Song
252. Kay Nielsen’s Stunning 1914 Scandinavian Fairy Tale Illustrations
253. Susan Sontag’s List of Rules and Duties for Being 24
254. How to Be an Explorer of the World
255. What Makes a Great City: Anaïs Nin on the Poetics of New York
256. Richard Feynman on the Role of Scientific Culture in Modern Society
257. Tchaikovsky on the Paradox of Patronage and the Challenge of Retaining Creative Freedom in Commissioned Work
258. The Creative Act: Marcel Duchamp’s 1957 Classic, Read by the Artist Himself
259. The Beatles in Comics
260. August 22, 1969: The Beatles’ Final Photo Shoot
261. A Few Don’ts for Those Beginning to Write Verse from Ezra Pound
262. Ray Bradbury’s Unpublished Poems and His Meditation on Science vs. Religion
263. Story of a Writer: Ray Bradbury on Storytelling and Human Nature in 1963 Documentary
264. Anaïs Nin on Why Understanding the Individual is the Key to Understanding Mass Movements
265. What Actually Happens While You Sleep and How It Affects Your Every Waking Moment
266. How to Read a Poem: “Stored Magic,” Total Transformation, and the Capacity for Creative Wonder
267. Goethe on the Psychology of Color and Emotion
268. How Children Learn: Portraits of Classrooms Around the World
269. Mars and the Mind of Man: Carl Sagan, Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke in Cosmic Conversation, 1971
270. Book Spine Poetry: Your Turn
271. An Institution Committed to the Dulling of the Feelings: Susan Sontag on Marriage
272. Risk Intelligence, the Art of Uncertainty, and the Flawed Psychology of Airport Security
273. A Lesson in Entrepreneurship, Perseverance and Publishing from Iconic Chef Julia Child
274. Bukowski on Going All The Way
275. Maya Angelou on Home, Belonging, and (Not) Growing Up
276. Nick Hornby on Your Cultural Snobbery
277. A List of “Rare Things” From 11th-Century Japanese Court Lady Sei Shonagon, World’s First Blogger
278. How Remix Culture Fuels Creativity & Invention: Kirby Ferguson at TED
279. Anaïs Nin on Life, Hand-Lettered by Artist Lisa Congdon
280. Charles Darwin’s List of the Pros and Cons of Marriage
281. 6 Rules for Creative Sanity from Radical Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich
282. How Alfred Hitchcock Changed One Boy’s Life
283. The Science of Sleep: Dreaming, Depression, and How REM Sleep Regulates Negative Emotions
284. The Science of How Music Enchants the Brain, Animated
285. Several Short Sentences About Writing
286. 10 Rules for Students, Teachers, and Life by John Cage and Sister Corita Kent
287. Dr. Seuss’s World War II Political Propaganda Cartoons
288. Introducing Literary Jukebox: Daily Book Quote Matched with a Song
289. Why Success Breeds Success: The Science of “The Winner Effect”
290. Carl Sagan’s Message to Mars Explorers, with a Gentle Warning
291. Creative Evolution: French Philosopher Henri Bergson on Intuition vs. the Intellect
292. The Role of “Ripeness” in Creativity and Discovery: Arthur Koestler’s Seminal 1964 Theory of the Creative Process
293. Twilight Zone Creator Rod Serling on Where Good Ideas Come From
294. 29-Year-Old Patti Smith’s Poetic and Irreverent Monologue on Women and the Universe
295. How Big Is Infinity? An Animated Explanation from TED
296. Significant Objects: How Stories Confer Value Upon the Vacant
297. Susan Sontag on Love: Illustrated Diary Excerpts
298. Henry Miller on the Beautiful Balance of Giving and Receiving
299. The Wisdom of Crowds
300. Book Spine Poetry: The Spark of Love
301. Anatomy of Lying
302. Is It Dirty: A Love Letter to New York’s Grit from Frank O’Hara, 1964
303. Anaïs Nin on Paris vs. New York, 1939
304. Edward Gorey Illustrates Little Red Riding Hood and Other Classic Children’s Stories
305. The Calendar as a Meme: A Brief History of Timekeeping
306. A Three-Movement Choral Suite Based on Carl Sagan
307. Cheating the Impossible: Wire-Walker Philippe Petit on Education, Creativity, and Patience
308. The Art of War: The Ancient Chinese Classic Adapted for Dystopia circa 2032
309. Henry Miller on Reading, the Life of the Mind, and How to Fix Education
310. Twenty Beloved New York Writers on the Magic of Central Park
311. The Father of Modern Meteorology Pays Homage to Jonathan Swift in a Scientific Verse, 1920
312. Maira Kalman on Walking as a Creative Device and the Difference Between Thinking and Feeling
313. John Updike on the Universe and Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing
314. Illustration (The Finest Occupation): An Animated Short Film
315. Stanley Kubrick on Fear, Mortality, and the Purpose of Life: A Rare 1968 Playboy Interview
316. Marilyn Monroe’s Unpublished Poems: The Complex Private Person Behind the Public Persona
317. The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge: A 1939 Manifesto for the Incalculable Rewards of Curiosity
318. Aldous Huxley on Freedom, Propaganda, and the Future of Technology: A Rare and Prophetic 1958 Interview by Mike Wallace
319. Close to the Machine: Code and the Mesmerism of Building a World from Scratch
320. Maira Kalman on Identity, Happiness, and Existence
321. Tchaikovsky on Work Ethic vs. Inspiration
322. Susan Sontag on Writing
323. The Probability That You Are Dreaming Right Now? 1 in 10.
324. Sally Ride, the First American Woman in Space, on What It’s Actually Like to Launch on the Space Shuttle
325. Anti-Suffragette Postcards from the Early 20th Century
326. Cultural History Gem: Saul Bass’s Original Pitch for the Bell Systems Logo Redesign, 1969
327. Susan Sontag on Aphorisms and the Commodification of Wisdom
328. The Great Race: An Exquisite Tale of Forest Creatures Illustrated in the Style of Indian Folk Art
329. Trinity: A Graphic History of the Atomic Bomb
330. Good Morning, Mr. Orwell: John Cage, George Plimpton, and the World’s First Satellite “Installation”
331. Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
332. Einstein, Gödel, and the Science of Time Travel
333. Hemingway Shoots His Cat
334. The Burning House: What People Would Take if the House Was on Fire
335. Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren: A Hopeful Vision for Post-Occupy Humanity circa 1930
336. Alligators All Around: A Maurice Sendak Alphabet Book from 1962
337. Remembering Steven R. Covey with Timeless Insights from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
338. Bill Plympton’s Quirky Animated Guides to Kissing and Making Love
339. This Is a Monomania: A Love Letter from Balzac
340. A Vintage Love Letter to Summer: Jan Morris on New York’s Heatwaves as the Ultimate Equalizer of Humanity
341. A Rare Glimpse of Leonardo da Vinci’s Anatomical Drawings
342. Designers on Top: MoMA’s Paola Antonelli on the Evolution of Design
343. Green Card Stories: A Visual Catalog of Immigrants’ Triumphs and Tribulations
344. How a Bicycle Is Made
345. The Naughty Nineties: A Victorian Pop-Up Book for Adults Only
346. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
347. Francis Bacon on Learning and How to Read Intelligently
348. Henry David Thoreau on Defining Your Own Success
349. A Vintage Scientific Paper Published as a 38-Stanza Poem
350. The Family That Dwelt Apart: Lovely Vintage Animated Film Based on an E. B. White Short Story
351. Vita Sackville-West’s Love Letter to Virginia Woolf
352. No Man’s Land: A Meditation on Mortality and Self-Delusion from French Illustrator Blexbolex
353. Carl Sagan’s Reading List
354. Book Spine Poetry vol. 6: A Working Theory of Love
355. North: How a Small Arctic Town Became a Global Epicenter of Climate Science
356. Celebrating John Cage: 40 Years of Visualizing Music Notation Around the World
357. Italo Calvino’s 14 Criteria for What Makes a Classic
358. An Anatomy of Inspiration: A 1942 Guide to How Creativity Works
359. The New Swiss Army Knife: Bill Gates Predicts the iPhone in 1995
360. The First Poem Published in a Scientific Journal
361. 100 Ideas That Changed Architecture
362. Epilogue: Book-Lovers on the Future of Print
363. Meet the Real Alice: How the Story of Alice in Wonderland Was Born
364. Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
365. Freeman Dyson on Tool-Creation, Technology, and What Makes a Scientific Revolution
366. E.O. Wilson’s Advice to Young Scientists
367. The Surrealist Chart of Erotic Hand Signaling
368. Ralph Ellison on Race and the Power of the Writer in Society: A Rare 1966 Interview
369. A Visual Alphabet-Dictionary of Unusual Words
370. Digesting the Most Important Food Politics Book of the Past 50 Years
371. Jesse Bering on the Adaptive Value and Neurochemistry of Heartbreak
372. Emily Roebling and How the Brooklyn Bridge Was Built
373. The Science of Waiting and the Art of Delay
374. The Scientific Cure for Hangovers
375. Alice in Wonderland Pop-Up Book
376. Creative Legend George Lois on Ideas as the Product of Discovery, Not Creation
377. Powershift: Alvin Toffler Visionary Wisdom on the Age of Post-Fact Knowledge and the Super-Symbolic Economy
378. 7 Lessons on the Creative Life from the U.S. Forest Service
379. Learned Optimism: Martin Seligman on Happiness, Depression, and the Meaningful Life
380. Isabella Rossellini’s Kooky Educational Films about Bees
381. Talk to Me: Design and the Communication Between People and Objects
382. Nora Ephron on Women, Love, Happiness, Reading, Life, and Death
383. A Radical Journey of Art, Science, and Entrepreneurship: A Self-Taught Victorian Woman’s Visionary Ornithological Illustrations
384. Legendary Graphic Designer Milton Glaser on Art, Purpose, and the Capacity for Astonishment
385. Susan Sontag on Censorship and the Three Steps to Refuting Any Argument
386. Alice in Wonderland as a Subway Map
387. Alan Turing: Church, State, and the Tragedy of Gender-Defiant Genius
388. Limbic Revision and How Love Rewires the Brain
389. Why Writers Write: George Orwell on the Four Universal Motives for Creative Work
390. What Is Art? Favorite Famous Definitions, from Antiquity to Today
391. Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace: Tracing the Evolution of Women’s Rights in a Victorian Lady’s Journals
392. A Brief History of Alchemy, Pseudoscience & Transmutations, from Ancient China to Craig Venter
393. 5 Things Every Presenter Should Know About People, Animated
394. Against Positive Thinking: Uncertainty as the Secret of Happiness
395. Sartre on Why “Being-in-the-World-Ness” is the Key to the Imagination
396. Turtle Anatomy, in Stunning Images from 1820
397. We Got Merge: Noam Chomsky on the Cognitive Function that Made Language Evolve
398. On Scientific Taste
399. The Cultural History and Adaptive Function of Boredom
400. Woodcut: A Meditation on Time Through the Inked Cross-Sections of Fallen Trees
401. Henri Matisse’s Rare 1935 Etchings for James Joyce’s Ulysses
402. Shakespeare and the Number 14, or Why Poetry and Mathematics Belong Together
403. 18-Year-Old Sylvia Plath on Loving Everybody and Living with Curiosity
404. From Fitzgerald to Reagan, 5 Letters of Fatherly Advice from History’s Greatest Public Dads
405. An Invisible Flower: Yoko Ono’s Time Machine of Love
406. Iconic Designer Charles Eames’s Most Memorable Aphorisms
407. How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
408. Sylvia Plath’s Drawings
409. An Unquiet History of Libraries and Navigating Knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet
410. Bee City: 1951 Short Film about the Social Life of Bees
411. 6 Rules for a Great Story from Charles M. Schulz’s Son and Snoopy
412. The Origins of Sex: How the First Sexual Revolution Shaped Modern Society
413. What Makes a Classic? Lessons from the Chinese Book of Changes
414. Christoph Niemann: Insecurity Is Essential to Great Design
415. The Art of Coffee: A Mad Men Era Short Film
416. Summer Reading List 2012: 10 Essential Books for Cognitive Sunshine
417. Queen Victoria’s Little-Known Art
418. French Polymath Henri Poincaré on How the Inventor’s Mind Works, 1908
419. Legendary Architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Aphorisms on Education and Learning
420. Cargo Cult Science: Richard Feynman’s 1974 Caltech Graduation Address on Integrity
421. Ray Bradbury on Space, Education, and Our Obligation to Future Generations: A Rare 2003 Interview
422. Remembering Ray Bradbury with 11 Timeless Quotes on Joy, Failure, Writing, Creativity, and Purpose
423. Gorgeous Vintage Soviet Art and Propaganda Posters
424. Dorothy Parker Obituary, 1967
425. Rilke’s Love Letters
426. What a Plant Knows
427. Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely on the Relationship Between Creativity and Dishonesty
428. Chasing Venus: When the World Came Together to Measure the Heavens
429. Is Pluto a Planet? An Animated Explanation Sets the Record Straight
430. The First Feminist Film (1922)
431. A Visual History of Presidential Campaign Posters: 200 Years of Election Art from the Library of Congress Archives
432. The Gnomes of Gnù: Umberto Eco Teaches Kids About Ecology Through Abstract Art
433. Live the Questions: Rilke on Embracing Uncertainty and Doubt as a Stabilizing Force
434. The Art of Scientific Investigation: How Intuition and the Imagination Fuel Scientific Discovery and Creativity
435. How a Virus Conquers the World, Animated
436. Thomas Edison’s To-Do List, 1888
437. The Self Illusion: How Our Social Brain Constructs Who We Are
438. The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves
439. A Girl and Her Room: Portraits of Teenage Girls’ Inner Worlds Through Their Bedroom Interiors
440. Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
441. Live the Questions: Jacqueline Novogratz’s Advice to Graduates
442. Color Harmony: An Animated Explanation of How Color Vision Works circa 1938
443. Trees of Life: A Visual History of Scientific Diagrams Explaining Evolution
444. Get Dressed: Celebrated Graphic Designer Seymour Chwast Makes the Mundane Magical
445. I Am Science: Short Film Traces Unconventional Paths to Life in Science
446. The Art of Chance-Opportunism in Creativity and Scientific Discovery
447. Gonzo: A Graphic Biography of Hunter S. Thompson
448. Alice in Wonderland, in 24 Vintage Magic Lantern Slides
449. How We Measure the Universe, Animated
450. Women Are Heroes: A Global Portrait of Strength in Hardship by French Guerrilla Artist-Activist JR
451. Love Is Wise, Hatred Is Foolish: Bertrand Russell Timeless Message to the Future
452. The Two Pillars of the Sensible and Sensitive Mind: Carl Sagan on Mastering the Vital Balance of Skepticism and Openness
453. The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning
454. Brian Cox on the Heart of Science
455. Douglas Adams’s Prophetic Vision for the Evolution of the Book
456. Book Spine Poetry vol. 5: The Meaning of Life
457. Advice on Living the Creative Life from Neil Gaiman
458. To Do: Gertrude Stein’s Posthumous Alphabet Book
459. Snoopy’s Guide to the Writing Life: Ray Bradbury on Creative Purpose in the Face of Rejection
460. Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See
461. Joan Didion on Self-Respect
462. 100 Ideas That Changed Film
463. 5½ Timeless Commencement Speeches to Teach You to Define Your Own Success
464. Hippopposites: A Minimalist Lesson in Opposites and Aesthetics for Little Designers
465. 20 of Today’s Most Exciting Artists and Illustrators Reimagine the Paper Plane
466. C. S. Lewis on Why “School Stories” and Media Distortion Are a More Deceptive Fiction Than Fiction
467. 1 + 1 = 3: Ken Burns on What Makes a Great Story
468. Little Bird: A Beautifully Minimalist Story of Belonging Lost and Found by Swiss Illustrator Albertine
469. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Why We’re Wired for Science & How Originality Differs in Science vs. Art
470. I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail: 17th-Century British “Trick” Poetry Meets Die-Cut Indian Folk Art
471. Sex and Punishment: A 4,000-Year History of Judging Desire
472. Recipes and Household Tips from Great Writers
473. Animated Anatomy of Shakespearean Slurs
474. René Magritte’s Little-Known Art Deco Sheet Music Covers from the 1920s
475. 1953 Animated Adaptation of Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” The First X-Rated Cartoon in Britain
476. Henry Miller on Originality
477. The Science of Internal Time, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired
478. Occupy: Noam Chomsky’s Guide to The History and Practice of Protest
479. Richard Feynman Reveals the Key to Science in 63 Seconds
480. All Ideas Are Second-Hand: Mark Twain’s Magnificent Letter to Helen Keller About the Myth of Originality
481. Her Idea: An Illustrated Allegory about Procrastination and the Creative Process
482. Maurice Sendak’s Unreleased Drawings and Intaglio Prints
483. Grim Colberty Tales: Maurice Sendak’s Last On-Camera Appearance
484. Graphing Jane Austen: Using Science to Extrapolate the Human Condition from Classical Literature
485. Going Solo: A Brief History of Living Alone and the Enduring Social Stigma Around Singletons
486. Carl Sagan on Books
487. 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design
488. Harry Clarke’s Haunting 1919 Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Stories
489. The Dalai Lama on Science and Technology
490. A Poetic Definition of Science Circa 1997
491. Reason & Emotion: Pseudoscience Meets Gender Stereotypes in 1943 Disney Wartime Propaganda
492. A 5-Step Technique for Producing Ideas circa 1939
493. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lesser-Known Contributions to Graphic Design
494. Litographs: Classic Books as Typographic Prints Supporting Global Literacy
495. The Storytelling Animal: The Science of How We Came to Live and Breathe Stories
496. Pursuit of Light: NASA and Moby Capture the Magic of the Cosmos
497. Harry Benson’s Luminous Black-and-White Photographs of The Beatles, 1964-1966
498. A Liberal Decalogue: Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments of Critical Thinking and Democratic Decency
499. Ounce Dice Trice: Exploring the Whimsy of Words in Extraordinary Names for Ordinary Things
500. The Conference of Birds: Beautifully Illustrated Story of Belonging Based on an Ancient Sufi Poem
501. Lessons in Conveying Complex Ideas with Simple Graphics from the World’s Best Information Designers
502. John Updike on the Ethics and Poetics of Criticism
503. A Story for Tomorrow: A Cinematic Meditation on the Human Condition
504. Orson Welles on Work-Life Balance and the Creative Potency of Beginner’s Mind: A Rare 1960 Interview
505. Between Page and Screen: A Digital Pop-Up Book about Love
506. When Einstein Met Tagore: A Remarkable Meeting of Minds on the Edge of Science and Spirituality
507. Dancing About Architecture: A Field Guide to Creativity
508. Luigi Russolo, Futurist: The Art of Noise and How the Occult Fueled Innovation in Music and Art
509. The Human Body: What It Is and How It Works, in Vibrant Vintage Illustrations circa 1959
510. Philosopher John Searle Defines Consciousness
511. A Typographic Literary Map of San Francisco, in a Puzzle
512. The Sky Is Calling Us: A Cinematic Love Letter to Space Exploration
513. The Animal Fair: Vibrant Vintage Children’s Illustration by Alice and Martin Provensen
514. Free Radicals: How Anarchy and Serendipity Fueled Science, from Newton to Tesla to Steve Jobs
515. Dreamers and Storytellers: E. O. Wilson on Art and Reconciling Science and the Humanities
516. Book Spine Poetry vol. 4: Music
517. How the Hubble Space Telescope Captured the Cosmos
518. Frank Chimero on the Shape of Design and the Harmonics of Influence
519. E. B. White’s Only New Yorker Cover, April 23, 1932
520. A Journey to the End of the World: Tracing Polar Explorer Shackleton’s Footsteps a Century Later
521. The Freud Files: How Freud Engineered His Own Myth
522. Book Spine Poetry vol. 3: New York
523. 5 (Mostly) Vintage Children’s Books by Iconic Graphic Designers
524. C. S. Lewis on the Secret of Happiness in a Letter to Child
525. If Darth Vader Actually Raised Luke Skywalker
526. To Infinity and Beyond: BBC Untangles the Most Exponential Mystery
527. A Visual Antidote to Cynicism
528. Yayoi Kusama, Japan’s Most Celebrated Contemporary Artist, Illustrates Alice in Wonderland
529. The Rainbow as a Metaphor for Understanding Consciousness
530. E. B. White on the Role and Responsibility of the Writer
531. Sir Ken Robinson on How Finding Your Element Changes Everything
532. Book Spine Poetry vol. 2: Get Smarter
533. Magnificent Maps: Cartography as Power, Propaganda, and Art
534. Book Spine Poetry vol. 1: The Future
535. How 17 Equations Changed the World
536. Magic Hours: Tom Bissell on the Secrets of Creators and Creation
537. From Jell-O to Ballet, 7 Ordinary Things is Extraordinary Slow-Motion
538. The Geometry of God: The Striking Kaleidoscopic Patterns of European Cathedral Ceilings
539. A Letter of Advice to Young Contrarians from Christopher Hitchens
540. How to Listen to Music: A Vintage Guide to the 7 Essential Skills
541. The Brotherhood of Man: Vintage Animated Short Film Debunks the Myths of Racist Beliefs (1946)
542. The Age of Insight: How the Cross-Pollination of Art and Science in Early 20th-Century Vienna Shaped Modern Culture
543. Seuss-isms: Wise and Witty Prescriptions for Living from the Good Doctor
544. John Cleese on the Five Factors to Make Your Life More Creative
545. How Muybridge Changed Science Through Art: A Fascinating Vintage Short Film by the U.S. Department of Defense
546. C.S. Lewis’s Advice to Children on Duty and the Only Three Things Worth Worrying About
547. 500,000 Strangers’ Secrets: PostSecret Founder Frank Warren at TED
548. Women in Science: Einstein’s Advice to a Little Girl Who Wants to Be a Scientist
549. How Long Is a Piece of String? BBC and Comedian Alan Davies Explore Quantum Mechanics
550. A Glorious Enterprise: The Making of American Science
551. What is Philosophy? An Omnibus of Definitions from Prominent Philosophers
552. Waterlife: Exquisite Illustrations of Marine Creatures Based on Indian Folk Art
553. Joel Robison’s Whimsical Photographic Abstractions of the Joy of Reading
554. Hidden Treasure: Ten Centuries of Rare Archival Images Visualizing the Body
555. Dating Advice from Dickens: A Collection of Victorian Vignettes
556. What Is Science? From Feynman to Sagan to Asimov to Curie, an Omnibus of Definitions
557. The Pleasure of the Inconceivable Nature of Nature: A Feynman Remix Featuring Joan Feynman
558. Edward Gorey’s Donald Illustrations
559. The Old Man and the Sea, Animated in Hand-Drawn Stop-Motion
560. Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story
561. Abstract City: Christoph Niemann’s Visual Essays
562. The Origin and Cultural Evolution of Silence
563. The Philosophy of Alice in Wonderland
564. How Ignorance Fuels Science and the Evolution of Knowledge
565. Vowels: A Cinematic Homage to the Beauty of Language and Life
566. Love Is Walking Hand In Hand: The Peanuts Gang Defines Love, 1965
567. Beautiful Vintage Cross-Sections of Trees, Many Rare or Extinct Today
568. London Unfurled: An Obsessive 37-Foot Accordion Drawing
569. Why Creativity Necessitates Eclecticism: Nick Cave’s Influences and Inspirations
570. Ancient Romans’ Fanciful and Entertaining Pre-Scientific Beliefs about Animal Behavior
571. Brian Cox Explains Entropy and the Arrow of Time with Sandcastles and Glaciers
572. Philosopher Daniel Dennett on Memes, Luck, Consciousness, and the Meaning of Life
573. The Idea Factory: Insights on Creativity from Bell Labs and the Golden Age of Innovation
574. Heinz Dilemma: A Hand-Drawn Interactive Animation to Test Your Moral Development
575. The Last Journey of a Genius: Richard Feynman’s Quest to Visit the Remote Lost Land of Tuva
576. William Gottlieb’s Beautiful Vintage Photographs of Jazz Legends, from Billie Holiday to Louis Armstrong
577. The Magic of Seeds and the Science of Insuring Earth’s Future
578. F. Scott Fitzgerald on Mastering the Muse and How He Wrote His Debut Novel to Win the Love of His Life
579. The Happiness of Pursuit: What Science and Philosophy Can Teach Us About the Holy Grail of Existence
580. Little 1: Paul Rand’s Sweet Vintage Children’s Book About Numbers, Soulmates, and Belonging
581. The Importance of Frustration in the Creative Process, Animated
582. The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
583. Advice on Advice from Literary Greats
584. Jack Kerouac’s List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Writing and Life
585. Connectome: A New Way To Think About What Makes You You
586. PBS Off Book: Art in the Age of the Internet
587. Plink Plink! Celebrate World Water Day with Vintage Children’s Illustrations circa 1954
588. People-Dependent Technology: Designing with Our Highest Ideals for One Another
589. 27 of History’s Strangest Inventions
590. How Creativity Works
591. How Famous Words Originated, According to the Historical Oxford English Dictionary
592. Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Illuminated Manuscripts
593. The Power of Simple Words, Animated
594. Einstein on Kindness, Our Shared Existence, and Life’s Highest Ideals
595. Alfred Hitchcock on the Secret of Happiness
596. What We Talk About When We Talk About “Curation”
597. The Baloney Detection Kit: A 10-Point Checklist for Science Literacy
598. The Life of Rumi in Rare Islamic Manuscript Paintings from the 1590s
599. E. B. White on the Free Press and the Evils of Corporate Interests in Media
600. The Vital Interplay of Intuition and Rationality in Love and the Emotional Mind
601. Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the iPad in 1968
602. 5 Art and Design Projects Inspired by Literary Classics
603. The Smiley Book of Colors
604. The Three Astronauts: Umberto Eco’s Lovely Vintage Semiotic Children’s Book About the Role of Space Exploration in World Peace
605. Denise Levertov Reads “The Secret”
606. Memories, Dreams, Reflections: Legendary Psychiatrist Carl Jung on Life and Death
607. The Lady Anatomist: The Wax Sculptures of 18th-Century Artist-Scientist Anna Morandi Manzolini
608. Six Tips on Writing from John Steinbeck
609. Alan Turing’s Reading List: Books the Computing Pioneer Borrowed From His School Library
610. Noam Chomsky on the Purpose of Education
611. The Laws of Thermopoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science
612. Introducing The Curator’s Code: A Standard for Honoring Attribution of Discovery Across the Web
613. Ray Bradbury on Doing What You Love and Reading as a Prerequisite for Democracy
614. Creating a “Fourth Culture” of Knowledge: Jonah Lehrer on Why Science and Art Need Each Other
615. Comic Books as the Grimms’ Fairy Tales of Pop Culture
616. Neil deGrasse Tyson Testifies Before Senate on the Spirit of Exploration
617. Austin Kleon on 10 Things Every Creative Person Should Remember But We Often Forget
618. How Iconic Album Cover Illustrator R. Crumb Brought Comics to Music
619. Ralph Ellison on Literature as a Voice Against Injustice, a Chariot of Hope, and a Lens on the Human Experience
620. Religion for Atheists: Alain de Botton on What Education and the Arts Can Learn from Faith
621. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Space, Politics, and the Most Important Thing to Know About the Universe
622. From Francis Bacon to Hobbes to Turing: George Dyson on the History of Bits
623. Film, Film, Film: 1968 Soviet Animated Parody of the Movie Industry
624. A Booklover’s Map of Literary Geography circa 1933
625. At the End of the Rainbow: Vintage Film about Ultraviolet Light, 1946
626. The Seven Lady Godivas: Dr. Seuss’s Little-Known “Adult” Book of Nudes
627. What Is Character? Debunking the Myth of Fixed Personality
628. The Power of Habit and How to Rewire Our “Habit Loops”
629. David Foster Wallace on Art vs. TV and the Motivation to be Smart
630. “In March, Read the Books You’ve Always Meant to Read”: Gorgeous Vintage PSA Posters, 1939-1941
631. NYTimes Data Artist Jer Thorp on Humanized Data at the Intersection of Science, Art, and Design
632. Sparkle and Spin: A Clever 1957 Children’s Book About Words Illustrated by Iconic Designer Paul Rand
633. Full Spectrum 2012: 10 Books on Sensemaking for the TED Bookstore
634. Memory Is Not a Recording Device: How Technology Shaped Our Metaphors for Remembering
635. The Visual Cliff: What a 1960 Perception Experiment Reveals About Emotional Decision-Making
636. Wired for Culture: How Language Enabled “Visual Theft,” Sparked Innovation, and Helped Us Evolve
637. Vintage Posters from the Golden Age of Travel, 1910-1959
638. From Rapunzel to The Little Red Riding Hood, Beloved Children’s Classics as Minimalist Posters
639. How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love
640. From Invisible Ink to Cryptography, How the American Revolution Did Spycraft and Privacy-Hacking
641. This Is My Home: Inside Anthony’s Parlor of Curiosities
642. William Gibson on Cultivating a “Personal Micro-Culture”
643. A Brief History of Children’s Picture Books and the Art of Visual Storytelling
644. Systematic Wonder: A Definition of Science That Accounts for Whimsy
645. The Disappearing Bicyclist: A Vintage Puzzle to Tickle Your Brain
646. The Science of Why the Past is Different from the Future, Animated
647. The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn’s Catalog of Humanity
648. Henry Miller’s 11 Commandments of Writing and His Daily Creative Routine
649. Glorious Vintage Photos of Early Australian Bike Culture from the Beginning of the 20th Century
650. Henri’s Walk to Paris: Legendary Designer Saul Bass’s Only Children’s Book, Resurrected Half a Century Later
651. From Philip Glass to Patti Smith, How 1970s New York Shaped Music for Decades to Come
652. Ira Glass on the Secret of Success in Creative Work, Animated in Kinetic Typography
653. Why Everything is Connected to Everything Else, Explained in 100 Seconds
654. Kurt Vonnegut on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, 2005
655. ABCinema: A Famous Film for Each Letter of the Alphabet, Animated in One Minute
656. Design Legend David Carson Brings Marshall McLuhan’s “Probes” to Life
657. All the Time in the World
658. Full Spectrum Reading List: 7 Great Books by TED 2012 Speakers
659. Everything is a Remix Part 4: System Failure
660. Stone Is Not Cold: Miroslav Šašek’s Playful Vintage Children’s Illustrations of Classical Sculpture
661. David Brooks on the Dangerous Division Between Reason and Emotion, Animated
662. Richard Feynman’s Mischievous Nobel Prize Wager
663. Guitar Zero: A Neuroscientist Debunks the Myth of “Music Instinct” and Learns to Play
664. Urville: An Autistic Savant’s Remarkable Imaginary City, 20 Years in the Making
665. Michael Pollan’s Food Rules Animated in Stop-Motion
666. Designer Kelli Anderson on Disruptive Wonder and the Hidden Talents of Everyday Things
667. Vintage Valentine’s Day Postcards from the Early 1900s
668. The Bomb and the General: A Vintage Semiotic Children’s Book by Umberto Eco circa 1966
669. The Quantum Universe: Why All That Can Happen Does Happen
670. This Will Make You Smarter: 151 Big Thinkers Each Pick a Concept to Enhance Your Cognitive Toolkit
671. Elizabeth Gilbert on How Schopenhauer’s Porcupine Dilemma Reveals the Secret of Happiness
672. E. B. White on Why Brevity Is Not the Gold Standard for Style
673. A Brief Animated History of the Modern Calendar
674. Six Vintage-Inspired Animations on Critical Thinking
675. A Brief History of the To-Do List and the Psychology of Its Success
676. How McLuhan, Agel, and Fiore Created a New Visual Vernacular for the Information Age
677. A Wordle Anatomy of Gary Stheyngart Blurbs
678. Paul Rand on The Role of the Imagination
679. How To Be Emotionally Stable: A Cosmic Melody
680. Cartographies of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline
681. 10 Tips on Writing from David Ogilvy
682. Da Vinci’s Ghost: How The Vitruvian Man Came To Be
683. Why Pink Doesn’t Exist: An Illustrated Stop-Motion Science Explanation in 60 Seconds
684. A Witty and Wise 1953 Letter from Legendary Children’s Book Editor Ursula Nordstrom
685. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: Adam Curtis on How Technology Limits Us
686. The Art of Medicine: Mapping the Body in 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination
687. A Brief History of The Elements of Style and What Makes It Great
688. Francesco Franchi on Visual Storytelling and Representation vs. Interpretation
689. This Is Your Brain on Comedy
690. A Beautiful 1928 Letter to 16-Year-Old Jackson Pollock from His Dad
691. Three Primary Colors: OK Go and Sesame Street Explain Basic Color Theory in Stop-Motion
692. Pasta by Design: Finding Whimsy in the Geometry of Food
693. The Dot and the Line: A 1965 Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster
694. Lost in Learning: Celebrating the Art and Spirit of Discovery
695. How Mankind Conquered the Night and Created the 24-Hour Day
696. Paris vs. New York: Minimalist Illustrated Parallels of Culture
697. Christopher Sykes, the Filmmaker Behind the Beloved Richard Feynman Documentaries
698. Charles Bukowski on What Love Is
699. The Death of the Editor and the Rise of the Circulation Manager
700. Dogs in Books: An Illustrated History
701. The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors
702. Schematics: A Love Story in Geometric Diagrams
703. An Animated History of Human Communication: 1965 Educational Film about the Telephone
704. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: A Story of Passion and Possibility
705. Laconia: An Architecture of Thinking
706. From Mark Twain to Ray Bradbury, Iconic Writers on Truth vs. Fiction
707. Time Piece: Muppets Creator Jim Henson’s Experimental 1965 Film on Time-Keeping
708. “Sincerity, Honesty, Conviction, Affection, Imagination, and Humor”: A Profile of Charles Eames, 1946
709. The Ice Balloon: The Story of the Disastrous 1897 Expedition to the North Pole by Air
710. Lewis Hyde on Work vs. Labor and the Pace of Creativity
711. Why We Like the New and Shiny: A History and Future of Neophilia
712. What It’s Like to Live in a Universe of Ten Dimensions
713. How Money Is Made: A 1920 Silent Film from the Royal Mint of Canada
714. It’s Only with the Heart One Can See Rightly: A Hand-Drawn Quote from The Little Prince
715. Tango: The First Polish Short Film to Win an Oscar, 1980
716. Throw Over Your Man: Virginia Woolf’s 1927 Love Letter to Vita Sackville-West
717. Visions of the Jinn: A Visual History of Arabian Nights
718. Architecture Without Architects: What Ancient Structures Reveal About Collaborative Design
719. The First Kiss in Cinema: How Thomas Edison Scandalized the World in 1896
720. The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption
721. Pedaling Progress: The Dutch Queen Juliana Riding a Bike, 1967
722. The Science of Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
723. A.A. Milne on Happiness and How Winnie-the-Pooh Was Born
724. Gorgeous Vintage Swiss Stamps from the 1940s-1970s
725. Woz on Creativity: Work Alone
726. The Greatest Grid: How Manhattan’s Famous Street Map Came to Be
727. The Solar System Set to Music: A Near-Perpetual Homage to Bach
728. The Letters of Greats: From Ernest Hemingway to Georgia O’Keeffe, a Glimpse of Famous Correspondence
729. The Origin of Snark: Original Illustrations from Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark,” 1876
730. Babel No More: Inside the Secrets of Superhuman Language-Learners
731. Manuel Lima on the Power of Knowledge Networks in the Age of Infinite Connectivity
732. Scrap Irony: Irreverent Illustrated Cultural Commentary by Edward Gorey circa 1961
733. Elevator Groupthink: An Ingenious 1962 Psychology Experiment in Conformity
734. John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter of Advice to His Lovesick Teenage Son
735. The Antikythera Mechanism: The Story of Humanity’s Oldest Analog Computer, circa 150 B.C.
736. A Beautiful Animated Adaptation of Bukowski’s Poem “The Bluebird”
737. The Hidden Beauty of Pollination
738. The Joy of Books: A Stop-Motion Rainbow Intervention
739. Einstein, Anne Lamott, and Steve Jobs on Intuition vs. Rationality
740. Les Très Riches Heures de Mrs. Mole: Artist Ronald Searle’s Illustrated Love Letter to His Wife Recovering from Cancer
741. Network: The Secret Life of Your Personal Data, Animated
742. The Future Belongs to the Curious: A Manifesto for Curiosity
743. Mark Twain’s Rules of Writing
744. The Zen of Steve Jobs: A Graphic Novella About “The Lost Years”
745. 9 Books on Reading and Writing
746. New York Diaries: 400 Years of Great Writers’ Reflections on a Great City
747. Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots
748. How the Dutch Got Their Bike Paths
749. The Dawn of the Microprocessor and the Birth of Venture Capital
750. Bike Art: Bicycles in Art Around the World
751. Three Classic Fairy Tales Examined Through the Lens of Architecture
752. Drawing Mental Illness: Artist Bobby Baker’s Visual Diary
753. The World Is Round: Gertrude Stein’s Little-Known 1938 Children’s Book
754. A Rare Look at Samuel Beckett’s Doodle-Filled Notebooks
755. 19-Year-Old Isaac Newton’s List of Sins
756. A List of Don’ts for Women on Bicycles Circa 1895
757. Mathemagician Vi Hart Explains Spirals and Fibonacci Numbers in Doodles and Vegetables
758. Advice to Sink in Slowly: Designers Share Wisdom with First-Year Students in Poster Series
759. Situations Matter: How Context Shapes Our Lives
760. Mail-Order Mysteries: Real-World Stuff from Vintage Comic Book Ads

2011

1. Marshall McLuhan on New Forms and Old Assumptions (1960)
2. Forgotten Bookmarks: The Secret Life of Second-Hand Books
3. Advice on Writing from Modernity’s Greatest Writers
4. PBS Off Book: The Magic of Book Art and Papercraft in 5 Minutes
5. Maurice Sendak on Passion, the Risk of Art, and Never Having Written for Children
6. Iconic Playwright Harold Pinter on Truth in Drama (and in Life)
7. Grierson: A Documentary About the Filmmaker Who Coined “Documentary”
8. The Voyagers: A Short Film About How Carl Sagan Fell in Love
9. The 11 Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2011
10. Fashioning Apollo: How the Spacesuit Was Designed
11. “Dream Good”: 30-Year-Old Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolution List
12. Francis Ford Coppola Predicts YouTube in 1991
13. The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossoms
14. Max Fleischer’s Original 1947 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Animation
15. Christopher Hitchens: “One should try to write as if posthumously.”
16. An Illustrated Visualization of What Happens on Earth in a Single Second
17. Umberto Eco on Lists and Making Infinity Comprehensible
18. The 11 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2011
19. Introducing Book Pickings: A Visual Bookshelf
20. Annie Dillard on Winter and the Wonder of Life
21. Move Your Story Right Along: The Elements of Style Rap
22. Steve Jobs on Why Computers Are Like a Bicycle for the Mind (1990)
23. I Want My Hat Back: A Darkly Delightful Masterpiece by Jon Klassen
24. Arrested Development & Philosophy: They’ve Made a Huge Mistake
25. Writers and Their Books: Inside Famous Authors’ Personal Libraries
26. The Best Food Books of 2011
27. The 11 Best History Books of 2011
28. Occupy Scales of Wealth: Income Inequality Visualized as NYC Map
29. Philip K. Dick on Beauty, Suffering, and the Nature of the Universe
30. The Modernist Nerd: Vintage Science Ads from the 1950s-1960s
31. Viewers Like You: Edward Gorey’s Animated Intro for PBS’s Mystery
32. Sir David Attenborough Narrates Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” to Glorious Glimpses of Nature
33. Alter Ego: Portraits of Gamers Next to Their Avatars
34. Maira Kalman + Daniel Handler Illustrate a Breakup Through Significant Objects
35. Marginalia and the Yin-Yang of Reading and Writing
36. No Ordinary Genius: BBC Captures Richard Feynman’s Legacy
37. Product Design: A PBS Off Book Documentary
38. Eames: The Architect and the Painter
39. Dear Art World: William Powhida’s Critique of Everything That’s Wrong with Contemporary Culture
40. The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Visual Micro-Tales of Our Shared Humanity
41. From Jack Kerouac to Ayn Rand: Iconic Writers on Symbolism, 1963
42. The 11 Best Science Books of 2011
43. Matthew Picton’s Map Sculptures of Cities Made of Books about the City
44. What Does It Mean To Be Human? 300 Years of Definitions and Reflections
45. From Frida Kahlo to Freud, Finger Puppets of Cultural Icons
46. From Beer to Life on Mars: The Seven Wonders of Microbes
47. Gay in America: A Photographic Tapestry of Faceted Humanity
48. How the “Most Beautiful Woman in the World” Invented a System for Remote-Controlling Torpedoes
49. The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott: 100 Years of Polar Mystery
50. Tantra Song: Rare 17th-Century Indian Paintings That Look Like 20th-Century Western Art
51. The Natural History of Evolution, in Stunning Black-and-White Photographs of Animal Skeletons
52. What is Generative Art? A 7-Minute PBS Micro-Documentary
53. How Bananas Became a Global Commodity
54. Inside the Sketchbooks of the World’s Greatest Type Designers
55. Kathryn Schulz on the Psychology of Regret and How to Live with It
56. Introducing the Regifting API: Free Tools to Destigmatize Regifting
57. The Astonishing Visual Lists of Autistic Savant Gregory Blackstock
58. The 11 Best Photography Books of 2011
59. The Secret of Life from Steve Jobs in 46 Seconds
60. Lovely Stop-Motion Book Trailers for Stiefvater’s Fantasy Trilogy
61. Spiderman-Like Folk Hero Taunts the Nazis in 1945 Czech Animation
62. The Cult of LEGO
63. Oscar Wilde: The Rise and Fall of the 20th Century’s First Pop Celebrity
64. The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini
65. The Hare and the Tortoise: 1947 Dramatization with Live Animals
66. The Curious Sofa: Edward Gorey’s Vintage “Porno-graphic” Children’s Book for Adults
67. The Physics Book: An Illustrated Chronology of How We Understand the Universe
68. 25 Celebrated Saul Bass Title Sequences in 100 seconds
69. A Mosaic Time-Lapse Visualization of the Sky for an Entire Year
70. Do! A Minimalist Handmade Pictogram Book in the Style of Indian Tribal Art
71. The 11 Best Art and Design Books of 2011
72. Farm Anatomy: Julia Rothman’s Illustrated Guide to Country Life
73. John Lennon’s Handwritten To-Do List
74. A Book of Sleep: A Sweet Illustrated Lullaby
75. PANTONE: A Color History of the 20th Century
76. Steve Jobs and NeXT: Rare PBS Documentary circa 1986
77. Charade: Lessons in Creative Vision from a 1984 College Student
78. We Love You, Beatles: Vintage Children’s Illustration Circa 1971
79. Destino: A Salvador Dalí + Walt Disney Collaboration Circa 1945
80. Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women
81. The 11 Best Illustrated Children’s and Picture Books of 2011
82. And So It Goes: A Rare Glimpse of Kurt Vonnegut’s Tortured Soul
83. The Silver Fox Experiment: How Dogs Became Dogs
84. Hands Are Amazing
85. Jerry’s Map: 2,000 Panels of Cartographic Imagination
86. Inside the Creative Process of Cut-Paper Storyteller Béatrice Coron
87. Artist Terry Border Imagines Everyday Objects in Romantic and Risqué Scenarios
88. How to Get Unstuck in 30 Seconds
89. Choosing to Die: Sir Terry Pratchett Comes to Terms with His Death
90. Superwoman Was Already Here: Montessori’s Philosophy, Animated
91. Blok: Playful, Voyeuristic Vintage Polish Experimental Animation
92. Salvador Dalí Illustrates Alice in Wonderland, 1969
93. Celestial Navigations: 5 Conceptual Vintage Science Films by Al Jarnow
94. Free Ride: Digital Parasites and the Fight for the Business of Culture
95. Meat the Future: An Animated Case for In-Vitro Meat
96. Goodnight iPad: A Parody for the Next Generation
97. Onward to the Edge: Another Symphony of Science Remix Gem
98. How Darwin’s Photos of Human Emotions Changed Visual Culture
99. The Universal Traveler: A Vintage Guide to Creative Problem-Solving
100. Animals Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before
101. Human Brain: Extraordinary 48-Dancer Trailer for TEDxAmsterdam
102. The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions: Vintage Arsenal of Masonic Pranksters
103. The Holstee LifeCycle Film: Visual Poetry for Bike-Lovers and Creators
104. Carl Warner’s Whimsical Food Landscapes
105. The Ecstasy of Influence: Jonathan Lethem on the Author as a Public Intellectual
106. Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon
107. Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors: The Physical Underbelly of the Internet
108. Menagerie: Sharon Montrose’s Evocative Portraits of Animals
109. A Manifesto for the Spirit of Journalism circa 1940
110. Leonard Weisgard’s Stunning 1949 Alice in Wonderland Illustrations
111. Gerhard Richter: Tate Modern Celebrates One of the Greatest Artists Alive
112. From Freud’s Couch to Emily Dickinson’s Only Surviving Dress: Annie Leibovitz Catalogs Meta-Cultural Iconography
113. A Painting of Cancer Cells Inspired by Carl Sagan
114. Harris Tweed: The Story of the Greatest Cloth of All
115. What Is Motion Design?
116. Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design
117. The Table Comes First: Adam Gopnik on the Meaning of Food
118. Science Ink: Carl Zimmer Catalogs the Tattoos of Science Nerds
119. Stefanie Posavec on Her Obsessive Analog Data Visualization
120. The Art of Pixar: Behind the Scenes of 25 Years of Beloved Animation
121. Balloons for Bhutan: Jonathan Harris Documents Happiness
122. Maira Kalman Illustrates Michael Pollan’s Iconic Food Rules
123. You Are Not So Smart: A Field Guide to the Brain’s Guile
124. Maurice Sendak’s Rare Velveteen Rabbit Illustrations circa 1960
125. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Little-Known Original Drawings for the First Edition of “The Hobbit”
126. From Philosophy to Art, 10 Essential Books on Protest
127. Vintage Halloween: Haunted Postcards from the Early 1900s
128. My Faraway One: The Passionate Love Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
129. Studio on Fire: Iron Beasts Make Great Beauty
130. The Recipe Project: Recipes by Rock-Star Chefs Set to Song
131. Shel Silverstein Duets with Johnny Cash, 1970
132. The Little Book of Hindu Deities: Pixar Animator Rethinks Mythology
133. Learners Will Inherit the Earth: Alistair Smith on Fixing Education
134. Books: A Living History
135. How the Difference Between Your Experiencing Self and Your Remembering Self Shapes Your Happiness
136. What Is a Person?
137. National Geographic: Inside the Milky Way
138. Visual Storytelling: New Language for the Information Age
139. Mesmerizing Footage of Picasso Painting on Glass
140. Eli, No! An Illustrated Antidote to Perfectionism
141. 5 Unsung Heroes Who Shaped Modern Life
142. The Phantom Tollbooth at 50: Celebrating Timeless Imagination
143. All Nothing: Poetic 1978 Animated Allegory about Mankind’s Greed
144. Stunning Subjectivity: Obsessive Typographic Maps by Paula Scher
145. Indie Music Legends Celebrate the Songs of Shel Silverstein
146. A Collection a Day: An Obsessive Homage to Order
147. I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words via 200 Quotes
148. The Divided Brain, Animated
149. Spike Jonze’s Handmade Stop-Motion Love Story for Bibliophiles
150. A Sky Full of Kindness: Beautiful and Profound Cut-Paper Meditations on Life by Artist Rob Ryan
151. Six Famous Thought Experiments, Animated in 60 Seconds Each
152. The Little Red Hen: Andy Warhol’s Pre-Pop 1958 Children’s Illustration
153. Astronomy for the Rest of Us: A Naked-Eye Tour of the Sky
154. Depression-Era Woodcuts by Lynd Ward, Father of the Graphic Novel
155. Sound Is…
156. Breathtaking Photographs of Sea Creatures by Mark Laita
157. Whale Fall: Poetic Cut-Paper Animation about the Afterlife of a Whale, Inspired by Radiolab
158. A Visual Ethnography of the World’s Last Nomadic Peoples
159. A Graphic Novel Biography of Richard Feynman
160. 7 Must-Read Books on Time
161. BBC’s Volatile History of Chemistry
162. Rare Images from the Golden Age of Circus, 1870-1950
163. Complaints Choir: The World’s Mundane Grievances Set to Song
164. Nurturing Walls: Indian Women’s Stunning Tribal Art Tradition
165. The Anatomy of Influence: Mapping the Labyrinth of Literature
166. Young Hemingway’s Letters: A Rare Glimpse of the Author’s Tender Side
167. How Radio Broadcasting Works: An Animated Explanation from 1937
168. Every Page of Moby-Dick, Illustrated
169. Perversion for Profit: Vintage Anti-Porn Propaganda
170. Poets Ranked by Beard Weights
171. 7 Essential Collections of Conversations with Cultural Icons
172. What Translation Reveals about the Human Condition
173. Animation Pioneer Max Fleischer Illustrates 1944-1945 News Wires
174. The Disciples: James Mollison’s Portraits of Music Subcultures
175. Richard Feynman on Beauty, Honors, and Curiosity
176. Hark! A Vagrant: Witty Comics about Historical & Literary Figures
177. The Magic of Reality: Richard Dawkins Teaches Children to Fight Myth with Science
178. Apple and the Bananas: A Steve Jobs Personal Remembrance
179. Bob Dylan & Other Icons Resurrect the Unfinished Lost Songs of Hank Williams
180. Breakfast at Tiffany’s Turns 50: Celebrating Audrey Hepburn
181. Everything is a Remix: Creative Influences in The Matrix
182. The Innovator’s Cookbook: Great Minds on the Power of Serendipity
183. They Draw & Cook: Recipes Illustrated by Global Artists
184. Remembering One of the Greatest Science Writers of All Time
185. MetaMaus: Inside the Making of the Comic that Made History
186. Catalyzing Creativity: 7 Playful Activity Books for Grown-Ups
187. Charles Eames on Design: Rare and Wonderful Q&A from 1972
188. A Map of Woman’s Heart: Appalling Victorian Gender Stereotypes, in Illustrated Cartography
189. Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964, Gets It Oddly Right
190. People Who Became Nouns: The Music Video
191. Celebrating the Art of Competitive Beard and Mustache Grooming
192. Hall of Femmes: The Female Icons of Graphic Design
193. The Ropes at Disney: 1943 Walt Disney Employee Handbook
194. Gorgeous Grimm: 130 Years of Brothers Grimm Visual Legacy
195. The Toaster Project: A DIY Quest for the Origins of Stuff
196. Maphead: Exploring the Mystery of Why Maps Sing to Us
197. Lessons for the Living from the Brink of Death
198. The Bippolo Seed: Seven Rare Dr. Seuss Stories Brought to Light
199. Austin Kleon on Cultivating Creativity in the Digital Age
200. 7 Nonfiction Children’s Books Blending Whimsy and Education
201. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
202. Today Yesterday: 5 Vintage Visions for the Future of Technology
203. The Conscience of Television
204. I Like Cats: A Picture-Book Showcase of Indian Folk Art
205. What Makes Hitchcock’s Films Great: An Animated Recipe
206. Missed Connections Illustrated: Artist Sophie Blackall’s Touching Visual Odes to Modern Love
207. The Story of the Millennium Seed Bank Project + Gorgeous Vintage Seed Catalog Cover Artwork
208. Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”: A Neuropsychology Reading
209. The Communist Threat: A Trip Through America’s Ideological Wayback Machine
210. Culturomics: What We Can Learn from 5 Million Books
211. Public Science Triumphs: Cat-Inspired Computing of the Future
212. Animated Adaptation of The Giving Tree Narrated by Shel Silverstein to Celebrate a New Posthumous Book
213. The Night Life of Trees: Exquisite Handmade Illustrations Based on Indian Mythology
214. Tales for Little Rebels: Radical Politics in Famous Children’s Books
215. Dime-Store Alchemy: Joseph Cornell’s Surrealist Shadow Boxes
216. Queenslander: Gorgeous Vintage Australian Illustrated Covers
217. Parastou Forouhar: Art, Life and Death in Iran
218. New York and the Dawn of Cartoons: 7 Animation Pioneers
219. Edward Gorey’s Never-Before-Seen Letters and Illustrated Envelopes
220. 5 Vintage Versions of Modern Social Media from Centuries Ago
221. The Geography of Bliss: The Secrets of the Happiest Places on Earth
222. 1951 Black-and-White Animation on How Different Drugs Work
223. George Price and the Quest for the Origins of Altruism
224. Pump Up The Volume: A History of House Music
225. Wonderstruck: Remarkable New Work from Brian Selznick
226. Cyclepedia: An Homage to the Beauty of the Bicycle
227. Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power & Technology
228. How the Aurora Borealis Works
229. 15 Years of Cutting-Edge Thinking on Understanding the Mind
230. Democracy & Despotism: 1940s Encyclopedia Britannica Films
231. Illustrated Flowcharts to Find Answers to Life’s Big Questions
232. The Unwilling Tourist: Vintage Czech Illustration Captures the Life of the Refugee
233. Five Timeless Books of Insight on Fear and the Creative Process
234. Portraits of Workspaces
235. Redirect: A New Way to Think About Psychological Change
236. This Must Be The Place: Poetic Short Films Explore ‘Home’
237. Made in Russia: Vintage Curiosities of Soviet Design
238. A Brief Visual History of Robots in a Matrix of Creepiness & Intelligence
239. Asylum: Inside the Haunting World of 19th-Century Mental Hospitals
240. World Science Festival: Scents and Sensibilities, or How Smell Works
241. New Philanthropy: End Malaria and Boost Your Own Creative Process
242. Ray: A Life Underwater
243. Spitting in the Face of Creativity?
244. Everything Sings: Countercultural Cartography of the Invisible Life of a Neighborhood
245. Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens, Possibly His Last
246. Sentics: Emotional Healing Through Music and Touch
247. Doyald Young: The Self-Made Typography Icon in His Own Words
248. Monoculture: How Our Era’s Dominant Story Shapes Our Lives
249. Arnold Schoenberg’s Music Notation Based on Tennis: A Tribute to George Gershwin
250. Lewis Mumford on the City: Rare Footage from 1963
251. Believing Is Seeing: Errol Morris Unravels the Greatest Mysteries of Photojournalism
252. The Secret Life of Pronouns: Computational Linguistics and What Our Word Choices Reveal About Us
253. Al Jaffee’s Iconic MAD Fold-Ins: The Definitive Collection, 1964-2010
254. Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns for the Information Age
255. Major Movements in Philosophy as Minimalist Geometric Graphics
256. Metropopular: If Cities Could Speak
257. An Emergency in Slow Motion: A “Psychobiography” of Diane Arbus
258. Lip Service: The Science of Smiles
259. People: A Meditation on Human Duality by Illustrator Blexbolex
260. Analog Books to Die For: Five Fantastic Die-Cut Books
261. Video Portraits of Resilience from Sri Lanka
262. Happy Birthday, John Locke: The Essential Locke in 3 Minutes
263. Illustrated Three-Line Novels by the One-Man Twitter of 1906 France
264. The Ghost Map: Hard Lessons in Epidemiology from Victorian London
265. 19th-Century Anthropomorphic Animals from the NYPL Archives
266. A Definitive Guide to Leonardo da Vinci’s Paintings and Drawings
267. Andrew Zuckerman: Curiosity and Rigor are the Secret to Creativity
268. You’re a Wonder: How Your Ear Works
269. Mathemagician Vi Hart Explains the Science of Sound, Frequency and Pitch
270. 1493: An Uncommon History of How Columbus Changed the World
271. 11 Piano Lessons in 9 Minutes from Iconic Jazz Pianist Earl “Fatha” Hines
272. The Myth of Popular Culture: Why ‘Highbrow’ & ‘Lowbrow’ Don’t Work
273. Understanding Urbanity: 7 Must-Read Books About Cities
274. Architects’ Sketchbooks: Behind the World’s Most Magnificent Buildings
275. Famous Lives in Minimalist Pictogram Flowcharts: From Darth Vader to Jesus
276. Noam Chomsky Explains the Cold War in 5 Minutes
277. Savoy Cocktail Book: Retro Recipes for Drinks from the 1920s-1930s
278. How the Science of Attention is Changing Work and Education
279. Mashup Masterpiece: Cookie Monster Sings Tom Waits
280. Mod Odyssey: How The Beatles Revolutionized Animation in 1968
281. Walls Notebook: Unleash Your Inner Graffiti Artist
282. Brain Culture: How Neuroscience Became a Pop Culture Fixation
283. Science vs. Religion: 50 Famous Scientists on God, Part 2
284. The Stanford Prison Experiment: History’s Most Controversial Psychology Study Turns 40
285. Samuel Beckett’s Only Cinematic Project: A Silent Film from 1965
286. Portraits of Cultural Icons by 80 of the World’s Top Illustrators
287. How a Book is Made: AD 400 vs. 1947 vs. 1961 vs. 2011
288. The Exposed City: A Brief History of Mapping the Urban Invisibles
289. A Brief History of Menu Design, 1850-1985
290. Do You See What I See? BBC on the Subjectivity of Color Perception
291. Digital Humanities Spotlight: 7 Important Digitization Projects
292. 7 Essential Books on Street Art
293. Salvador Dalí on Decadence, Death and Immortality: The 1958 Interview
294. On Loving Animals: A Visual Study of Affection and Its Extremes
295. Library of Dust: Reflections on Life Through the Unclaimed Dead
296. Tom Gauld’s Both: If Edward Gorey Did Contemporary Quirk-Comics
297. Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge
298. The Homosexuals: A CBS “Documentary” from 1967
299. Illegal Drugs, Explained in LEGO: A 1970s PSA
300. Astonish Me: A Beautiful Short Film About the Mysteries of Nature
301. Radioactive Orchestra: Making Music from Nuclear Isotopes
302. In The Plex: How Google Changed Our Lives and Everything Else
303. Letters to Children from Cultural Icons on the Love of Libraries
304. Comic Books for Grown-Ups: 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction
305. Where Children Sleep: James Mollison’s Poignant Photographs
306. Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers On Their Art
307. New McSweeney’s Children’s Book Uses Thermal Ink for Secret Images
308. Typography in 7 Minutes: A PBS Micro-Documentary
309. Happy Birthday, Louis Armstrong: What a Wonderful World
310. Move, Learn, Eat: Around the World in 3 Timelapse Short Films
311. Seasons: A Meditation on Change by French Illustrator Blexbolex
312. Driving with Plato: Life Lessons from History’s Greatest Minds
313. Life of Pi: Croatian Illustrator Takes on a Modern Classic
314. How Music and Language Mimicked Nature to Evolve Us
315. Rare Early Photographs of Musicians Around the World
316. Paleo-Pundit: 1963 Educational Film about Lasers
317. Colour Mania: A Global Spectrum of Unitone Design
318. Kooky Cookery: Retro Recipes for Culinary Frankensteining
319. Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
320. Circles of Influence: Visualizing Creative Debt Throughout History
321. Visualizing the Expansion of the Universe: The Most Accurate Measurement Yet
322. 10 Essential Books on Typography
323. Own a Warhol for $5: Warhol’s Obscure 1959 Children’s Book
324. The Book of Symbols: Carl Jung’s Catalog of the Unconscious
325. Noma Bar’s Minimalist Vector Portraits of Cultural Icons
326. A Field Guide to the North American Family: A Meditation on Humanness
327. Hurricane Story: A Haunting Analog Photo-Memoir of Katrina, Partway Between Nightmare and Fairy Tale
328. Ethnic Diversity in Russia 100 Year Ago, Restored in Color
329. The Beginning of Infinity: David Deutsch Explains the World
330. Science vs. Religion: 50 Famous Academics on God
331. Book of Ice: DJ Spooky’s Cross-Disciplinary Antarctica Project
332. Visualize This: How to Tell Stories with Data
333. 7 (More) Obscure Children’s Books by Famous “Adult” Lit Authors
334. Digital Decluttering: 3 Ways to Visualize Your Mac’s Hard Drive
335. Akule: Magnificent Black-and-White Underwater Photographs
336. A Brief History of Film Title Sequence Design in 2 Minutes
337. Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight
338. The Man of Numbers: How Fibonacci Changed the World
339. Tom Wolfe on Marshall McLuhan for His 100th Would-Be Birthday
340. Aftercrimes, Geoslavery & Thermogeddon: Lexicographer Erin McKean’s TEDBook on New Words
341. How Alex Steinweiss Invented the Album Cover
342. Urban Atrophy: Haunting Photos of Architectural Ghosts
343. Life in the Abyss: Behind the Scenes of the Census of Marine Life
344. 7 Obscure Children’s Books by Authors of Grown-Up Literature
345. Project Earth: A Resource-Based Economy Explained
346. Brain Bugs: The Glorious Imperfections of Our Brains
347. Andrew Bush’s Drive-By Portraits: A Meditation on Character
348. Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour, a BBC Documentary
349. A Brief Visual History of Vintage Typographic Scripts
350. How Illuminated Manuscripts Were Made
351. The Lists, To-dos and Illustrated Inventories of Great Artists
352. 7 Celebrations of Nelson Mandela
353. 10 Life Lessons from Esquire’s “What I’ve Learned” Interviews
354. Beauchamping: Simple Design for a Better World
355. The Influencing Machine: A Brief Visual History of the Media
356. Ingrid Dabringer’s Map Paintings: Finding Whimsy in Geography
357. Highlights from TED Global 2011, The Stuff of Life: Day One
358. Highlights from TED Global 2011, The Stuff of Life: Day Two
359. From Old Books: Heaven for the Visual Bibliophile
360. Nathalie Miebach’s Sculptural Soundtracks for Storms
361. Albertus Seba’s Amazing Cabinet of Natural Curiosities
362. Space Shuttle’s Legacy: A Carl Sagan Remix
363. Polymorphic Computing, Explained in Vintage Stop-Motion (1959)
364. Of Lamb: A Children’s Classic Retold for Contrarians
365. 5 Must-Read Books by TED Global Speakers, Part 2
366. 7 Fundamental Meditations on Faith
367. The Dawn of Computer Music: A PBS Segment from 1986
368. Built to Last: The Illustrated Secrets of Mankind’s Greatest Structures
369. Concord Free Press: Free Their Books and Their Minds Will Follow
370. Ordering the Heavens: A Visual History of Mapping the Universe
371. Fuzz & Fur: Japan’s Peculiar Subculture of Fur-Suit Mascots
372. Remembering Louis Armstrong: Satchmo, the Documentary
373. Spomenik: Eerie Retrofuturistic Monuments of the Eastern Bloc
374. Before Walt Disney: 5 Animations by Early Cinema Pioneers
375. A Tribute to René: Haunting Motion-Graphics Homage to René Magritte
376. The Lost Thing: A Whimsical Story about Belonging by Shaun Tan
377. 7 Essential Books on Optimism
378. Slavoj Žižek’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in One Minute
379. Linda McCartney’s Tender Photographs of The Beatles and Other Icons
380. Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo: The First True Animation, 1911
381. BBC’s The Beauty of Maps
382. Nabokov’s Legacy: Bequeathing Butterfly Theory
383. 7 Essential Books on Data Visualization & Computational Art
384. 7 Platforms for Collaborative Creation for the Post-Industrial Age
385. Anything You Want: Derek Sivers on the Secrets of Entrepreneurship
386. 7 Platforms Changing the Future of Publishing and Storytelling
387. Molly Landreth’s Tender Vintage Portraits of Modern Queer Life
388. The Ego Trick: Julian Baggini in Search of the Self
389. BBC’s The Romantics: The Birth of the Individual in Modern Society
390. The Five Greatest TED Talks of All Time
391. Kurt Vonnegut Interviewed on NPR Inside Second Life
392. The Exultant Ark: The Secret Emotional Lives of Animals
393. Renata Salecl: How Limitless Choice Limits Social Change
394. Happy Birthday, George Orwell: BBC’s 1954 1984 Adaptation
395. The Best Book, Magazine & Catalog Covers from around the World
396. The Open Day Book: Perpetual Calendar by 365 Leading Artists
397. Hume at 300: Timeless Philosophy for Timely Thinking
398. Iron Fists: A Design History of Totalitarian Regimes
399. 5 Fantastic Daily Email Newsletters for a Better Life
400. The Beekepers: Artful Documentary about Colony Collapse Disorder
401. Shapes for Sounds: A Visual History of the Alphabet
402. Everything is a Remix, Part 3: The Elements of Creativity
403. The Medium is the Massage: Shepard Fairey + Marshall McLuhan
404. A Peek Inside the Notebooks of Great Creators, from Architecture to Advertising to Street Art
405. The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
406. Sentimental Value: Shopping for Human Stories on eBay
407. Altered Focus: Exploring Burma’s Political Regime via Skateboarding
408. A Rare Look at Michelangelo’s Private Papers
409. Arthur Conan Doyle, Psychic: Rare Footage from 1930
410. Dripped: French Animated Homage to Jackson Pollock
411. Green Porno: Isabella Rossellini Celebrates Animal Biology
412. 10 Beautiful Typographic Covers of Non-Typography Books
413. Brian X. Chen on How the iPhone Changed Everything
414. Obsessive Consumption: Life in a Material World, Illustrated
415. The Vowels: A Ken Burns Parody
416. John Lithgow Reads Mark Twain, Live-Illustrated
417. As Little Design as Possible: The Work of Dieter Rams
418. Kurt Vonnegut: Armageddon in Retrospect
419. (Almost) Everything You Need to Know about Culture in 10 Books
420. Words To Live By: 5 Timeless Commencement Addresses
421. Rare Book Feast: Celebrating the Timeless Character of Books
422. The Internet Is My Religion: Jim Gilliam on the Divinity of the Web
423. The Perfect City: What Does “Community” Mean to You?
424. La Figa: Visions of Food and Form
425. Power: Platon’s Portraits of World Leaders
426. The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels: A Brief History of the Bike
427. American Look: A Technicolor Homage to Mid-Century Design
428. The Ascent of Money: A PBS Financial History of the World
429. 5 Must-Read Books by TED Global 2011 Speakers
430. Drawn In: A Peek Inside Favorite Artists’ Private Sketchbooks
431. The Sorcerers & Their Apprentices: The Untold Story of MIT Media Lab
432. Christoph Niemann on Happiness, Work and Creativity
433. The Moby Awards for Best and Worst Book Trailers
434. Bibliographic: The 100 Best Design Books of the Past 100 Years
435. Pretty Big Dig: Construction Cranes as Ballet Dancers
436. Landscape Permutations: An Experiment in Place and Space
437. The Modernist: Graphic Design’s Mid-Century Muse
438. Dear Me: Letters by Luminaries to Their 16-Year-Old Selves
439. thxthxthx: The Art of Finding Happiness in Everyday Gratitude
440. Incognito: David Eagleman Unravels the Secret Lives of the Brain
441. E. chromi: Designer Bacteria for Color-Coded Disease Detection
442. Designing Minds: Uncovered Video Profiles of Prominent Designers
443. An Illustrated Guide to Cockroaches
444. Drawing Nature: Learning to See the World by Learning to Draw It
445. Geometry of Circles: Philip Glass + Sesame Street (1979)
446. Frank Sinatra: A Rare Documentary from 1965
447. Radioactive: The Incredible Story of Marie Curie Told in Cyanotype
448. Summer Reading List: 10 Essential Books for Cognitive Sunshine
449. The Cloud Collector’s Handbook: Cloudy Images to Clear the Mind
450. Cold War Wonderland: Photographing the East/West Divide
451. Michael Meets Mozart: Piano, Cello and Mashup Magic
452. Content Is Queen: A Generative Portrait of Democracy
453. How Ralph Waldo Emerson Shaped the American Ideal
454. Follow For Now: A Time-Capsule of Contemporary Thought
455. Past Objects: Excavated Curiosities from New York’s Forgotten Past
456. My Visual Diary: A Month-in-the-Life in Stop-Motion
457. The Interface is the Message: Aaron Koblin on Visual Storytelling at TED
458. Cement Eclipses: Tiny Street Art Sculptures by Isaac Cordal
459. The Medium Is Not The Message: 3 Handwritten Newspapers
460. Little Bets: A New Theory of Creativity and Innovation
461. Egypt in the Early 1900s: Rare Vintage Lantern Slides
462. A Brief History of Cheese
463. Live Now: Existential Affirmation by Design
464. Vintage Ballet: Rare Photos of Dancers from the 1930s-1950s
465. LE GUN 1,2,3: Bleeding-Edge Illustration from Around the Globe
466. Happy Birthday, Dieter Rams: Revisiting Less & More
467. How Shakespeare Changed Everything
468. Happy Birthday, Frank Capra: 5 Essential Films
469. Partitura: Mesmerizing Music Visualization Software
470. A Design Ethnography of South African Barbershops & Salons
471. BBC’s The Human Animal
472. Field Notes: A Glimpse Inside Great Explorers’ Notebooks
473. A Rare Look at Japan: Hand-Colored Images from the 1920s
474. In The Wilds: Illustrating the Charm of the Countryside
475. The Music of Philip Glass, Visualized in Fractals
476. From Nature to NASA: The Fascinating Story of Velcro, a Pioneering Masterpiece of Biomimicry
477. The Filter Bubble: Algorithm vs. Curator & the Value of Serendipity
478. Cultural Connectives: Understanding Arab Culture Through Typography
479. Before Muybridge: Pioneering Nineteenth-Century Motion Photography by French Scientist Étienne-Jules Marey
480. Famous Creators on the Fear of Failure
481. New Dawn, New Day: Introducing the New Brain Pickings
482. Out of Character: The Psychology of Good and Evil
483. Justin Gignac on Idea Envy and Embracing Imperfection
484. Kurt Vonnegut’s Fictional Interviews with Luminaries
485. DrawHappy: Ongoing Global Art Project on Happiness
486. Writers’ Houses Illustrated
487. Christoph Niemann: How the World Works
488. Railway Maps of the World
489. A World Without Moms
490. Sam + Friends: Vintage Muppets Explore Visual Thinking
491. Let England Shake: One Album, 12 Short Films
492. Notations 21: Musicians Visualize Sheet Music in Imaginative Ways Inspired by John Cage
493. BBC: The Making of The King James Bible
494. 5 Guides to Life from Cultural Luminaries
495. The Old Man and The Sea, Finger-Painted and Animated on Glass
496. Urban Iran: A Rare Look at Iran’s Street Art Scene
497. Mapping the Human Condition
498. An Optimist’s Tour of the Future
499. 6 Popular Business Books Adapted as Comics
500. Children and Established Artists Draw Autism
501. Mabel Pike: Portrait of a 91-Year-Old Moccasin Maker
502. Old Jews Telling Jokes
503. Lawrence Lessig on the Free Access Movement
504. Papercraft 2: Analog Creativity for the Digital Age
505. Analog Infoviz: Handmade Visualization Toolkit
506. 7 Brilliant Book Trailers
507. Human Planet: BBC Unravels Earth’s Secrets
508. Arabic Graffiti: An Eastern Voice in the Global Street Art Dialogue
509. David Clemesha’s Hand-Lettered Nursery Rhymes
510. Breaking In: Advice from 100 Advertising Rockstars
511. HyperCities: Every Past is a Place
512. Tina Fey Makes Google’s Eric Schmidt Really, Really Uncomfortable
513. Tony Orrico: The Human Spirograph
514. Animated Infographic: Unspilling the Gulf Oil
515. Mark of Cain: The Language of Russian Criminal Tattoos
516. Samuel Price’s Incredible Dog Portrait Collages
517. The Ragged Edge of Silence: The Art of Listening
518. Hello, I Like You: Abstracting Happiness
519. Three-Minute Kant
520. Edward Burtynsky’s Oil
521. Celebrating Ella Fitzgerald
522. An Eyeful of Sound: How Synesthesia Works
523. Writer’s Block in Stop-Motion, Shakespeare-Style
524. Tweets from Tahrir: Rare Record of a Revoltuion
525. The 3D Type Book: A Typographic Treasure
526. The Language of Graphic Design
527. something: An Open-Story Plot Device for Life
528. Symmetry: A Split-Screen Exploration of Duality
529. Eastern Eggs: Bot-Etched Art Eggs for Japan
530. How Cancer Became Cancer and What Its Future Holds: A Pulitzer-Winning Biography of the Dreaded Disease
531. NASA + William Shatner: Space Shuttle’s Legacy
532. Bompas & Parr, Jelly Architects
533. Everything Is Going To Be OK: Aesthetic Anesthesia for the Soul
534. Quakebook: Twitter-Sourced Anthology for and by Japan
535. Why We Love: Five Revelatory Books on the Psychology of the Heart
536. Jonathan Harris: The Storytelling of Life
537. IOU Project: Social Technology Meets Artisanal Tradition
538. The Ancient Book of Myth and War
539. 5 (More) Children’s Books for Grown-Ups
540. A Brief History of the Pun
541. Gilbert Tuhabonye on Genocide, Running and Forgiveness
542. Bent Objects: The Secret Life of Everyday Things
543. The Fairest Fowl: Portraits of Championship Chickens
544. A Rare Look at Antarctica, 1911-1914
545. David Friedman’s Portraits of Inventors
546. Collaborative Whimsy: Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir
547. Poetry Animated: Tim Minchin’s “Storm”
548. How New Yorkers Feel About Art
549. NOVA: A Free Documentary about Contemporary Art
550. Game Frame: Bringing Game Mechanics to Work
551. 7 Must-Read Books on Education
552. Five Manifestos for the Creative Life
553. Material World: A Portrait of the World’s Possessions
554. Skillshare: Decentralized Education for All
555. SubMap: Visualizing Subjective Urban Patterns
556. Ants Are Amazing: Count the Ways, Literally
557. Metrocard Collages: 3 Phenomenal Artists
558. Computational Origami by MIT’s Erik Demaine
559. Store Front: New York’s Disappearing Face
560. LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy on the Future of Taste
561. Ball of Light: How Light Painting Saved a Man’s Life
562. Flourish: The Father of Positive Psychology Redefines Well-Being
563. One Day Without Shoes: Going Barefoot for Children
564. 5 Must-Read Books on the Psychology of Being Wrong
565. 5 Questions x 8 Interesting People x SXSW 2011
566. Stephen Hawking and the Theory of Everything
567. Viliam: Slovakian Short Film about Happiness & Delusion
568. Moby-Duck: A Quest for the Story Behind Bathtime
569. Let’s Dance: A Stop-Motion Homage to Modern Love
570. A Rare Archive: The Lost Beatles Photographs
571. Underwater Sculptures Help Corals Thrive
572. Through the Middle: Bittersweet Short Film about a Barber, Perseverance, and Impermanence
573. Noma Bar’s Negative Space Illustrations
574. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
575. Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them
576. Michael Wolff on the Three Muscles of Creativity
577. Wheels of Change: How The Bicycle Empowered Women
578. An Ode to the Brain: TED + Carl Sagan, Autotuned
579. 40K Books: 99-Cent Essays by Million-Dollar Authors
580. What Is Time? Michio Kaku’s BBC Documentary
581. The Word Project: Obscure Words in Bricolage
582. East Meets West: From Mao to Mozart
583. Dead Men’s Tales: Harry Houdini
584. The Atomic Cafe: Lampooning America’s Nuclear Obsession
585. The Longevity Project: Insights on Life from an 80-Year Study
586. How Musicians Experience and Communicate Emotion
587. Hans Rosling: How the Washing Machine Sparked the Reading Revolution
588. YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011
589. PICKED: Beautiful Short Film for World Water Day
590. 3 Iconic Film Directors Interpret Classic Operas
591. Vision Revolution: Why We See The Way We Do
592. Stencil 101 for Kids & the Eternal Kid
593. Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad on Sound, Science, and Mystery
594. 7 Essential Books on Music, Emotion, and the Brain
595. Scott Belsky on How to Avoid Idea Plateaus
596. Words Without Words: A Visual Dictionary
597. PICKED: Waste Land
598. 7 Einstein Classics, Digitized for the First Time
599. PICKED: Escape Vehicle No. 6
600. Enchantment: Guy Kawasaki’s Guide to Success
601. The Art of Immersion: Dissecting the Future of Storytelling
602. PICKED: Cry Baby, The Pedal That Rocks The World
603. Albert Einstein: How I See The World
604. The Coca-Cola Case
605. Open-Sourcing Graphic Design: 3 Projects
606. Harvard’s Steven Pinker on Violence and Human Nature
607. 5 Quirky Coloring Books for The Eternal Kid
608. They Draw & Cook: Recipes Illustrated by Artists from Around the World
609. What the Number Pi Sounds Like
610. Bookbinders: 1961 Documentary Romanticizes Book Craftsmanship
611. Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine & the Quest to Know Everything
612. The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books
613. Lost Roll of Film Finds Its Way Home, Virally
614. Sub City New York: A Cinematic Celebration of Urbanity
615. The Invention of ISOTYPE: How a Vintage Visual Language Paved the Way for the Infographics Age
616. Gerd Artnz Graphic Designer: The Visual Legacy of 4,000 Symbols
617. Climate Kid: UNICEF’s Platform for Preparedness
618. How a Book is Made, Circa 1947
619. Brainman: Inside the Mind of an Autistic Savant
620. Graphic USA: Miniguides to 25 Top Cities by 25 Top Designers
621. Inside Out Project: Street Artist JR’s $100K TED Prize
622. 10 Years of Bicycle Film Festival in 3 Minutes
623. 5 (More) Must-Read Books by TED 2011 Speakers
624. Worldchanging: An Updated Vision for a Better World
625. The Blackwater Gospel: Haunting Danish Animated Short Film
626. Endnotes: A David Foster Wallace BBC Documentary
627. TED 2011: The Rediscovery of Wonder, Day Two
628. TED 2011: The Rediscovery of Wonder, Day 3
629. Moonwalking with Einstein: How to Hack Your Memory
630. Who Is The World’s Most Typical Person?
631. Drawing Inspiration: An Animated Film about Routine & Serendipity
632. Before I Die: Reclaiming Urban Aspiration
633. The Almost True Story of NYC’s Subway Helvetica
634. TED 2011: The Rediscovery of Wonder, Day One
635. Soviet Artist and Mathematician Anatolii Fomenko’s Mathematical Impressions
636. Paola Antonelli on What Makes Good Design
637. The Wisdom of TED in Kinetic Typography
638. Street Artist JonOne Celebrates Abbé Pierre
639. TEDxAustin Title Sequence
640. Make Love, Not Porn: Technology’s Hardcore Impact on How We Act
641. Alfred Hitchcock on the “Fright Complex”
642. Carl Sagan / Egyptian Revolution Mashup
643. 5 Must-Read Books by TED 2011 Speakers
644. Waiting for Hockney: Documenting a Dreamer’s Determination
645. The Last Lions: NatGeo Photographers Tell an Urgent Story
646. Created Equal: Parallel Portraits of Cultural Difference
647. Visions of the Future: Isaac Asimov’s Unrealized Pilot
648. Inside the Mind of Kanye West: Typographic Phrenology
649. Visualizing Loudness: The Dark Side of Music Digitization
650. Life Looks for Life: A(nother) NASA Tribute
651. 5 Must-See Talks from Google Zeitgeist
652. 7 Must-Read Books on the Future of Information and the Internet
653. You Deserve a Medal: Honors on the Path to True Love
654. Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview
655. Jacqueline Novogratz on the Life of Immersion
656. The Man Who Invented the Future: Stunning Vintage Illustrations of Jules Verne’s Visionary Imaginings
657. All the Buildings in New York, Illustrated
658. Missing Sarajevo: A Political U2 Rockumentary
659. Pioneers of Spanish Graphic Design
660. Jumpin’ Jive: Have a Great Day the Cab Calloway Way
661. Spark: A Field Guide to How Creativity Works
662. PICKED: Macro Kingdom
663. Bohemian Rhapsody 5 Ways
664. The Day After Tomorrow: Our Aerial Future
665. The Strange Case of Edward Gorey
666. Thomas Edison and the Invention of the Movies
667. Douglas Coupland on Marshall McLuhan’s Prophecy
668. Saul Bass on Money, Quality Work & Creative Legacy
669. Panorama: A Woodcut Fold-Out Travelogue Promoting Biodiversity
670. The Universal Now: Vintage Book Plate Collages
671. Words on Words: Five Timelessly Stimulating Books About Language
672. The Future of Art: An Immediated Autodocumentary
673. Uncovered Gem: Leo Tolstoy’s Grandson Meets the Dalai Lama
674. Urawaza: The Japanese Art of Lifehacking
675. Stephen Biesty’s Engineering Illustrations: Art Meets Science
676. PICKED: Iceland Beyond Sigur Rós
677. Invisible Cities: A Transmedia Mapping Project
678. American Maker: A Manifesto for Hands-On Creativity from 1960
679. The Heroic Imagination Project
680. Everything is a Remix, Part 2
681. PICKED: The Smashing Book #2
682. Rainn Wilson’s SoulPancake: Exploring Life’s Big Questions
683. 5 Painfully Hilarious Politically Incorrect Books
684. How to Read: Simon Critchley’s Guide to the Great Texts of Humanity
685. The Museum of Possibilities
686. Bill Gates on Vaccines: An RSA Animation
687. Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers: “Playing” Your Abode
688. PICKED: A Documentary About Street Artist Ben Eine
689. Merchants of Culture: A Meditation on the Future of Publishing
690. The Belief Instinct: Exploring the Science of Spirituality
691. Designers & Books: What Iconic Designers Are Reading
692. Word on the Street: Found Urban Type Timed for Social Commentary
693. Victorian Women in Crime
694. Aaron Koblin on the Digital Renaissance
695. Animated Soviet Propaganda
696. David Carter’s Pop-Up Books for Children of All Ages
697. Isaac Asimov on Science and Creativity in Education
698. How to Write a Sentence: A Manual for the Art of Language
699. Democratizing Publishing: TED Launches TEDBooks
700. PICKED: Color Story Parallels, Past vs. Present
701. MoMA’s Paola Antonelli on Humanized Technology
702. The Black Book of Colors: A Lyrical Empathy Tool for the Sighted to See the World Like the Blind Do
703. Synesthesia Spotlight: 3 Visualizations of Music
704. Animating Reality: A Collection of Short Animated Documentaries
705. Why Man Creates: A Saul Bass Gem from 1968
706. The Beale Cipher: A Modern-Day Treasure Hunt
707. 7 Essential Books on the Art and Science of Happiness
708. They Were There: Errol Morris Spotlights Computer Pioneers
709. What Is Reality? A BBC Horizon Documentary
710. 13 Years of Futurism by Cultural Luminaries
711. Penguin by Design: “Good Design Is No More Expensive Than Bad”
712. Lost States: The Stories of Lands that Never Were
713. Hezârfen: The Story of the First Human Flight, Animated
714. Reality Is Broken: How Games Make Us Better
715. Vi Hart’s Playful Mathematics: Flatland on a Möbius Strip
716. The Gashlycrumb Tinies: A Very Gorey Alphabet Book
717. Stunning Images of Pollen, the Hidden Sexuality of Flowers
718. HBO’s Temple Grandin: Recasting Autism
719. Knowledge Navigator: An Apple Concept from 1987
720. A New Culture of Learning: Rethinking Education
721. The Power of Nightmares: BBC on the Politics of Fear
722. The Tell-Tale Brain: The Neuroscience of Being Human
723. See Something Cite Something: A Fair Use Flowchart
724. Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, Remastered
725. Citizen King: The Last Five Years of MLK’s Life
726. The Great Mystery of Photography: How to Photograph a Black Dog
727. Voyeurism Spotlight: Where and How Creators Create
728. Street Sketchbook: The Creative Process of Top Graffiti Artists
729. Proteus: Ernst Haeckel at the Intersection of Art & Science
730. The Dalai Lama on Women’s Role in Global Peace
731. Woodworking for Mere Mortals: 5 DIY Wooden Gadgets
732. The Frontier Is Everywhere: A NASA Tribute
733. Future Shock: Alvin Toffler’s Vintage Techno-Paranoia, Narrated by Orson Welles
734. Transit Maps of the World: A Design History of Transit Systems
735. Stickwork: Patrick Dougherty’s Remarkable Tree Sculptures
736. An Animated Tribute to the 10 Ruble Banknote
737. Retrofuturism Revisited: The Past Imagines the Future
738. Democratizing Art History: 6 smARThistory Primers
739. Why Can’t We Walk Straight?
740. Visual Life: The Sartorialist’s Creative Process
741. Georges Méliès: The First Cinemagician
742. TED Unbound: Behind the Scenes of a TED Talk
743. Creative Cartography: 7 Magnificent Books on Maps
744. Sound Unbound: DJ Spooky Explores Remix Culture
745. The History of Forgotten Phenomena: RIP Cliff Doerksen
746. Tim Flach’s Extraordinary Dog Portraits
747. PICKED: The Solar System at Your Fingertips
748. Zentangle: Pattern-Drawing as Meditation
749. Ralph Ginzburg’s fact:, Vintage Wikileaks?
750. Wreck This Box: Keri Smith’s Activity Books for Grown-Ups
751. Fabulous Furniture Made of Unusual Upcycled Objects
752. The Joy of Stats: Hans Rosling on Statistics as Storytelling
753. Women of the World: An Arresting Global Exploration
754. Look at Life: The Swinging London of The 1960s

2010

1. Brain Pickings Redux 2010
2. NatGeo’s Great Migrations: Nature’s Most Epic Journeys
3. A is for Armageddon: An Illustrated Guide to the Apocalypse
4. 7 Billion People in Kinetic Typography
5. NYTimes Data Artist Jer Thorp Visualizes Brain Pickings
6. On Conformity
7. Rare: An Intimate Portrait of Extinction
8. Susan Sontag: A Trifecta Remembrance
9. Return of the Dapper Men: Tim Gunn Meets Alice in Wonderland
10. How To Pick The Shortest Line
11. Amy Sedaris’s Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People
12. The Best Apps of 2010
13. The Christmas Truce of 1914: A Heartening Story of Humanity in the Middle of War
14. Merry, Merry: To Be Disposed of Without Reserve
15. PICKED: Moleskine Passions Wellness Journal
16. Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas
17. James Burke’s Connections: A BBC History of Innovation
18. Len Kendall Sketchnotes the Best of Brain Pickings 2010
19. Walt Disney’s Man In Space: Retrofuturism from 1955
20. 2010’s Best Long Reads: Science & Technology
21. My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Modernist Fairy Tales
22. Rare Photos of Jazz Icons by Herman Leonard
23. Christina Tsevis Illustrates the Best of Brain Pickings
24. Stack, a Curated Selection of Beautiful Magazines
25. ABC NYC: The Language of New York’s Found Typography
26. The Best Children’s Books of 2010
27. Sam Potts Visualizes the Best of Brain Pickings 2010
28. Tiffany Farrant Visualizes the Best of Brain Pickings
29. Unruly Alphabet: The Macabre, Anthropomorphic Lives of Letters
30. 2010’s Best Long Reads: Business
31. Mad Scientist Alphabet Blocks
32. The Best Books of 2010: Art, Design & Photography
33. PICKED: IDEO Reimagines the Music Player
34. Stefanie Posavec Visualizes The Best of Brain Pickings
35. The Alphabet Refracted Through Backlit Letters Shot on iPhone
36. The Best Books of 2010: Business, Life & Mind
37. PICKED: Look at What the Light Did Now
38. 2010’s Best Long Reads: Art, Design, Film & Music
39. The Best Albums of 2010
40. PICKED: Exit Through the Gift Shop Giveaway
41. Walt & El Grupo: The Story of Disney’s Political Propaganda
42. Not Your Mama’s Guidebook: The Zinester’s Guide to NYC
43. Rainn Wilson on Overcoming Creative Blocks
44. 3 Ways to Visualize the David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
45. Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
46. All in a Word: A Compendium of Linguistic Curiosities
47. Dust Serenade: Interactive MIT Installation Honors Sound Science Pioneer
48. How Music Works
49. PICKED: Poetry Animations
50. Economy Map: Visualizing the Eco-Impact of Industry
51. A Creative Commons Christmas Carol
52. A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart
53. The Mind’s Eye: How We Use Vision to Understand the World
54. Thought of You: Visual Poetry Meets Dance in 2D Animated Magic
55. Helmut Newton’s SUMO: An Epic Retrospective
56. Polaroid Inventor Edwin Land on the 5,000 Steps to Success
57. Hans Rosling for BBC: 200 Countries Over 200 Years in 4 Minutes
58. The Snark Handbook, Insult Edition: Verbal Sparring Lessons from Literary Greats
59. The First Forty Years of NPR: The Making of a Cultural Icon
60. Yoxi: A Creative Game for Social Change
61. Stefan Sagmeister on Sustaining Creativity
62. HeyKiki: A Platform for Crowd-Accelerated Learning
63. The Secret of Happiness: A TED Remix
64. The Do’s and Don’ts of Photography
65. The Englishman who Posted Himself
66. Historical Milestones As Famous Pop Songs
67. Locals Only: The Early Days of Skateboarding
68. One Hello World: Tuning the Human Condition
69. Infinite City: A San Francisco Subcultural Atlas
70. All Facts Considered: 276 Esoteric Facts from NPR’s Librarian
71. Steve Shapiro’s Taxi Driver: Rare Photos of Cinema History
72. LoudSauce: Crowdfunded Advertising for Causes
73. Launching the Brain Pickings Shoppe!
74. Philippe Halsman’s Iconic Jump Portraits
75. Mad Men: The Illustrated World
76. Thank You.
77. Isarithmic History: 88 Years of Red-Blue Divide in 1 Minute
78. The Complete Metropolis: Fritz Lang’s 1927 Gem, Remastered
79. Greatest of All Time: Remembering Muhammad Ali
80. PICKED: Goodbye Shanghai
81. Just a Few Cards: 9 Artists Reimagine the Holiday Card
82. The Decline of Marriage and Rise of New Families
83. Coralie Bickford-Smith’s Book Covers for Penguin Classics
84. Paula Scher on Combinatorial Creativity
85. Sounds of HIV: Music Made of AIDS Virus Nucleotides
86. A Photographic History of Bromance, 1840-1918
87. Visualizing Enlightenment-Era Social Networks
88. Gadget Sculptures: The Afterlife of Devices
89. The Story of Eames Furniture
90. Alone: An Animated Lament
91. Alphabets: A Miscellany of Letters by David Sacks
92. Jay-Z’s Decoded: A Real-Life Rags-to-Riches Story
93. Everyone Forever Now: Subcultural Storytelling
94. Denis Dutton’s Provocative Darwinian Theory of Beauty
95. Sterling’s Gold: A Fictional Mad Men Memoir
96. Tree of Codes: A Literary Remix
97. In The Dark: A Documentary about Rollerblading
98. A Brief Visual History of Cookery
99. Edible Landscapes: Miniature Vignettes Made from Food
100. Andrew Zuckerman’s Powerful Portraits of Music Icons
101. Jane McGonigal on Gaming for Productivity
102. Wabi Sabi: An Unusual Children’s Book Based on the Japanese Philosophy of Finding Beauty in Imperfection and Impermanence
103. East + West + Gershwin: Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang Perform Rhapsody In Blue
104. A Short Illustrated History of Nearly Everything
105. Mondo Cane (1962): The Original Shocumentary
106. Hide/Seek: Portraits of Gender Identity and Sexual Difference in Art
107. BBC’s Sherlock: Modernization Done Right
108. Baraka: A Breathtaking Journey to 24 Countries on 70mm Film
109. The Music Animation Machine
110. Brené Brown on the Building Blocks of Wholeheartedness
111. William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible
112. The Cassiopeia Project: Free Science Education Online
113. Designing Media: Lessons from Today’s Greatest Media Innovators
114. Dancing Under The Gallows: The Story of Alice, the World’s Oldest Holocaust Survivor
115. PICKED: Influencers
116. PICKED: Faucet Face
117. The Power of Photojournalism
118. 5 Essential Books and Talks on the Psychology of Choice
119. How to Fold a Newspaper Sheet Hat
120. Auto Focus: A Brief History of Contemporary Self-Portraiture
121. An Awesome Book of Thanks! Dallas Clayton Celebrates Gratitude
122. The Holstee Manifesto: Making The Life You Want To Live
123. SAVED: Upcycling Through Design and Storytelling
124. Smigly: Jazzy Tales of Misfortune
125. Bark: An Intimate Look at the World’s Trees
126. Dieter Rams’ Principles of Good Design
127. Portraits of the Mind: A Brief History of Visualizing the Brain
128. Interactive Quixote: A Vision for the Future of Dead Manuscripts
129. KOMAZA: Fighting Poverty Through “Microforestry”
130. Marvelous Movember
131. BBC’s John Lennon Tribute Rap
132. Beethoven Reimagined as Jazz
133. American Software: The Titans of Silicon Valley in 8-Bit Animation
134. PICKED: Verbal + Yoon Cover The Runaways
135. Words of the World: The Secret Stories of Words
136. Oil + Water: Posters Printed with Oil from The Gulf
137. PICKED: We All Good People
138. PICKED: Who’s Afraid of the Watersprite
139. Everything Explained Through Flowcharts
140. PICKED: Neighbor Dining
141. The School of Life
142. RxArt: Healing Children Through Contemporary Art
143. On Gratitude: 51 Micro-Essays on Life’s Blessings
144. Wanderlust: Four Minutes of Cinematic Aliveness
145. Obsolete Occupations: 7 Cinematic Short Films
146. Sir Ken Robinson on Creativity and Changing Educational Paradigms
147. Frames of Reference: Clever Vintage Film Makes Physics Fun
148. The Threadless Story: A Tale of Creative Entrepreneurship
149. Project Interaction: Design as an Education Curriculum
150. Street Artist JR Wins 2011 TED Prize
151. Search for the Obvious: A Homage to Everyday Objects
152. I Wonder: Marian Bantjes Explores Joy Through Typography
153. RIP Benoît Mandelbrot: Remembering The Father of Fractals
154. MakerLegoBot: A 3D LEGO Meta-Printer
155. projeqt: A Creative Storytelling Platform
156. How Do I Explain It To My Parents: Abstract Artists on the Art
157. A Lab of My Own: Coming Out In Science
158. Blog Action Day 2010: Water
159. Remote Palette: Warhol 2.0
160. Trespass: A Brief History of Uncommissioned Street Art
161. And The Pursuit of Happiness: Maira Kalman Illustrates Democracy
162. Jet Age: Entrepreneurship Lessons From The Sky
163. The Procrastinators
164. 60-Second Lectures: A Tapas Bar of Academic Insight
165. Cosmic Discoveries: The Universe in Your Pocket
166. Nina Paley: All Creative Work Is Derivative
167. Charles & Ray Eames’ Powers of Ten Flipbook
168. Fifty People, One Question
169. Nowhere Boy: John Lennon’s Early Life
170. Moleskine + Pac-Man = Gold
171. Graffiti Love Letter to Syracuse
172. Five Visualizations to Grasp the Scale of the Universe
173. What Is Procrastination: 5 Perspectives
174. Schlimazeltov! A Short Film About Luck in Jewish Culture
175. A Rare Look at Haiti: Maya Deren’s Divine Horsemen
176. Conversations with Mr. Lois
177. BBC’s 60-Second Ideas to Improve the World
178. PICKED: Hello Rewind
179. Inside The Kelly Writers House Audio Archives
180. PICKED: Sintel, a Global Collaborative Animated Film
181. FORM+CODE: Eye & Brain Candy for the Digital Age
182. PICKED: Thirty Conversations on Design, 2010 Edition
183. AuroraMAX : Watch The Aurora Borealis Live
184. Visualizing.org: A Data Visualization Portal
185. Mood Collection: Cinematic Anthropology of Urban Tenderness
186. Literary Action Figures
187. 7 Image Search Tools That Will Change Your Life
188. PICKED: TurningArt, Netflix for Art
189. Michele Banks’ Biological Watercolors
190. Modern Women: MoMA Celebrates Women in Art
191. The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol
192. Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film
193. PICKED: Miracles – 20 Years of Pop in One Mashup
194. 5 Cross-Disciplinary Cookbooks
195. Bad News: A Media Fiction
196. Junk Drawers: Portraits of People Through Their Trinkets
197. Mapping European Stereotypes
198. BBC on Science vs. Religion: The End of God?
199. The Paris Review Archival Interviews: 10 Favorite Quotes
200. Steven Johnson on Where Good Ideas Come From
201. Global Collaborative Film: life.turns.
202. Through the Eyes of the Vikings: The Aerial Arctic
203. PICKED: Maximum Balloon
204. PICKED: The Girl Effect, The Sequel
205. PICKED: Dictaphone Parcel Eavesdrops on the World
206. The Phantom Time Hypothesis, Visualized
207. A More Open Place: Photographing Privacy
208. 13 Words: Lemony Snicket + Maira Kalman
209. PICKED: IDEO Imagines The Future of Books
210. Everything is a Remix
211. The Talking Tree: Vegetation Does Social Media
212. The Bag Monster
213. Street Knowledge: An Encyclopedia of Street Art
214. Opening Lines: How Famous Creators Got Their Start
215. Capitalism Five Ways, Animated
216. Bees, Bees, Bees: In Praise of an Extraordinary Creature
217. Art in the Age of Commerce: The Mona Lisa Curse
218. What Does It Mean to Be Human?
219. ThoughtBubbler: Visual Storytelling for What Matters
220. The Raveonettes Cover The Stone Roses
221. Need to Want Less: Modern Philosophy via Graphic Design
222. SwiftRiver: Intelligence for the Information Age
223. The Exquisite Book: 100 Artists Play a Collaborative Game
224. 7 Ways to Have More by Owning Less
225. Seaswarm: MIT’s Fleet of Oil Spill Cleaning Robots
226. Fault Line Living: The World’s Most Dangerous Landscapes to Live
227. it’s a sickness: The Obsession Network
228. The Beast File: Infographic Storytelling
229. News21: Next-Gen Storytelling for the Multimedia Age
230. CoolClimate: Addressing Climate Change Through Art
231. 4Food: Dejunking Fast Food for the Digital Age
232. Everyone’s Favorite Guessing Game: 7 Must-See What’s My Line Episodes
233. Save the Words: Linguistic Intervention
234. Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin in the Style of The Beach Boys
235. How To Be Alone
236. HAPPY: A Documentary
237. More Shoes: A 5,000-Kilometer Dream Pursuit
238. On Words
239. Around the World in 80 Diets: Portraits of What People Across the Globe Eat in an Average Day
240. 5 ½ Werner Herzog Gems
241. String Portraits: Vintage Photographs of Young People Learning Mathematics via One Visionary Educator’s Playful Hands-on Method
242. One Designer, Two Designer: Vintage Australian Animation
243. These Are Their Stories: Art Based on Law & Order
244. Animation Spotlight: The Films of Joaquin Baldwin
245. OpenIDEO: Collaborative Design for Social Good
246. 13 Most Beautiful: Songs For Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests
247. Garmz: Goodbye Fashion Industry, Hello Designers
248. Mad Men on Wheels: Vintage Car Ads
249. Paola Antonelli on Design & Innovation
250. The Geometry of Pasta: A Minimalist Design Cookbook
251. Peace Through Music: The Voice Project
252. Dark Night of the Soul
253. Masters of Photography: The Story of Whisky Casks
254. 7 Must-Read Books by TED Global Speakers
255. Dreaming of Lucid Living: Enchanted Entertainment
256. Facadeprinter: Graffiti Meets Paintball
257. Postcards to Alphaville: A Love Letter to Film
258. Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot, Animated
259. Opening Up the Hitchcock and Lang Archives
260. The War Prayer: Mark Twain on War and Morality, Animated
261. 7 Quirky & Creative Playing Card Deck Designs
262. Winners of IDEO’s Living Climate Change Challenge
263. Life in a Day: Google Crowdsources Humanity
264. Blu is Back: The Story of Evolution, Told in Graffiti
265. Versions: The Purpose and Repurposing of Images
266. Razzle Dazzle: The Fabrication of Fame
267. Waiting for “Superman”: Education by the Numbers
268. We’re Getting On: The Book That Grows Trees
269. Art Pickings: Behold Our Brand New Art Portal
270. Visualizing Divisions and Bridges in Cyberspace
271. Summer Reading: 5 Curated Recommendations
272. Office Supply Art: Magical Mosaics Made of Unusual Objects
273. Information Pioneers: The Unsung Heroes of the Information Age
274. 5 Seminal Vintage Russian Animation Short Films
275. Press Pause Play: The Evolving Creative Landscape
276. One Day On Earth: A Timecapsule of Humanity
277. Drainspotting: Japan’s Unique Visual Subculture
278. The Genius of Design: A BBC Design Retrospective
279. This Is Your Brain on Love
280. A Love Letter to New York, in HD
281. The Power of Art: From Rembrandt to Rothko
282. CitID: A (Type)face for Every City in the World
283. Bike Culture: A Roundup
284. Color as Data: Visualizing Color Composition
285. The Robin Hood Tax Project
286. 5 (More) Places to Buy (and Sell) Affordable Art
287. Historypin: Past Meets Present in Street View
288. Books for Dad: 7 Esoteric Father’s Day Gift Ideas
289. What Everyday Objects Tell Us About the Universe
290. Spam as Art
291. LAxNYC: Creative Takes on a Cross-Country Road Trip
292. An Odyssey Through Asian Art & Art History
293. From Back Home: Photo- Parallels from Sweden
294. Strange Sounds: 7 Experimental Projects Making Music from Natural Elements
295. The Creators Project
296. Remix Culture Spotlight: Walking on Eggshells
297. The Bookshelf Rethought, Part 3
298. Music Philosophy: Famous Lyrics as Typographic Art
299. 5 Classic Children’s Books with Timeless Philosophy for Grown-Ups
300. Ayn Rand on Love as a Business Deal: The 1959 Interview
301. Sorted Books: The Library as a Standup Comedian
302. Market Maketh Man: Distortions of Democracy
303. Data Flow, The Sequel
304. The Future of First-Response Environments
305. Current: A News Project | ITP Spring Show Highlights
306. Robin of Shoreditch: The 100 Brands Project
307. Google Chrome Speed Tests
308. Ben Simon’s Gaga Guitars
309. Urban Hackscapes: Augmented Reality 1.0
310. Leonard Bernstein and the Anatomy of Music
311. The Brain Pickings 500
312. Photographer Jason Hawkes’ London At Night
313. See Better to Learn Better: Glasses Reinvented
314. Subway Etiquette Posters: New York, Toronto, Tokyo
315. Earth Day the TED Way
316. The Art of Money
317. The Beauty of Maps: Seeing Art in Cartography
318. Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia
319. Follow The Money: Visualizing the Structure of Large-Scale Communities
320. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
321. The 2020 Project: Visions of the Connected Future
322. Sparrow Songs: Twelve Films in Twelve Months
323. Cartograms: Making a Point with Distorted Maps
324. Leave Your Sleep: Natalie Merchant Sets Victorian Children’s Poetry to Song
325. Art for the Age of Transparency: BBC DataArt
326. The Works Progress Administration: Timeless Lessons on Design and Government from the 1930s
327. The Johnny Cash Project: Global Collaborative Storytelling
328. The Art of Book Sculpture
329. You’re a Horrible Person, But I Like You
330. Graffiti Love Letter: An Ode to the City
331. Japan: The Strange Country
332. Stolen Moments: Secret Glimpses of Neighbors’ Lives
333. Magazines: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
334. The Art of Conversation: London – Berlin
335. Retro Revival: Vintage Posters for Modern Movies
336. Design Makeovers of Mundane Communication Items
337. Love Me: The Cross-Cultural Manufacturing of Beauty
338. The Enchanted Drawing: Blackton’s Early Animation
339. Infoviz Education: Animated Visualizations for Kids
340. AnthroPosts: Analog Post-It Found Art, Digitized
341. World Water Day: 3 Smart Projects to Celebrate It
342. A Documentarian Collage of Humanity: 8 Billion Lives
343. The Apology Line
344. Uncovered Gem: Marshall McLuhan’s Global Village
345. Srikumar Rao on Hard-Wiring Happiness
346. Bruce Gilden on the Other Side of The Camera
347. Beyond the Business Card: Three Alternative Tools
348. Crowdfunding for Creativity
349. Invisible Children + La Blogotheque + You
350. Before OK Go: The History of Rube Goldberg Machines
351. Wake Your Inner 8-Year- Old: Errandboy Interview
352. Popular Science, Digitized
353. Blog-Turned-Book Success Stories: Part Two
354. Beyond the Dunbar Number: Picking Dunbar’s Brain
355. Beyond Burton: Art Inspired by Alice In Wonderland
356. Kopernik: Crowdfunding World-Changing Design
357. The Art of Protest
358. Animation Spotlight: I AM
359. The Bookshelf Rethought: 5 More Innovative Designs
360. Blog-Turned-Book Success Stories: Part One
361. Duelity: Earth’s Story, Split Down the Middle
362. CreativeAllies: Artist, Meet Artist
363. Brain-picking CurrentTV’s Max Lugavere & Jason Silva
364. HBO City: Artisanal Animation Magic Circa 1983
365. 6 Six Places to Find Affordable Art
366. Highlights from TED 2010: Day Two
367. Highlights from TED 2010, Day One
368. Analog Infoviz: Ward Shelley’s Hand-Painted Visualizations
369. Project Documerica: A Portrait of the 1970s Environmental Movement
370. 10 More Great Cross-Disciplinary Conferences
371. Creative Derivatives of the London Tube Map
372. Strange Worlds: Miniature Condiment Landscapes
373. Wayfinding in Wittgenstein’s World: 88 Constellations
374. How the Dutch Do Title Sequences
375. Mythical Beasts & Modern Monsters
376. Fresh Stuff from Michel Gondry
377. The Century of the Self: A Fascinating BBC Documentary About the Rise of Consumerism and Democracy
378. The Corners Project
379. Live Now: In-the-Moment Inspiration
380. Philosophical Timecapsule of Today: Wisdom
381. The School of Continuing Education
382. One Cubic Foot of Life
383. Phylomon: The Game of Life
384. The Red Book: When Carl Jung Lost and Found His Soul
385. Charting The Beatles
386. Chart Wars: The Steering Power of Data Visualization
387. Curation with a Conscience: The Working Proof
388. Pencils of Promise: Grassroots School-Building
389. The Transformative Power of Personal Projects
390. FaceSense: Mind-reading from MIT
391. Far Out: The Real Space Odyssey
392. Death by Design
393. Steve Jobs on Working with Legendary Designer Paul Rand
394. Music-Inspired Art: The Hype Machine Zeitgeist
395. 100 Places to Remember
396. Actions Speak Loudest

2009

1. Brain Pickings Redux: Best of 2009
2. The Happiness Project: Gretchen Rubin Spends a Year in Pursuit
3. Music Meets Philosophy: The Happiness Project
4. Tom Waits Reads “The Laughing Heart” by Charles Bukowski
5. The Moment Jars
6. Gift Guide Part 3: Free
7. Mobile Mobile: The Christmas Tree Retought
8. DoGooder: Do Nothing, Change Everything
9. The Bookshelf Rethought: 5 Innovative Designs
10. A Stop-Motion Treat from BBC Radio 1
11. Uncovered Gem: Bono Reads Bukowski’s “Roll The Dice”
12. The Subjectivity of Science, Crowdsourced
13. The Story of Cap & Trade
14. Moving Minimalism: Solitary Confinement
15. The Interpretation
16. The Pink and Blue Projects: Exploring the Genderization of Color
17. Gift Guide: Kids & The Eternal Kid
18. Interview with Dava Viz Star Pedro Monteiro
19. Gift Guide Part One: Books
20. We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion
21. Alphabet Books Rethought
22. Top 10 Contemporary Cross-Disciplinary Conferences
23. The History of Jazz, Animated in Shadow Art
24. World AIDS Day Spotlight: Interview with Travis McCoy
25. The Wall In My Head: Words & Art from the Fall of the Iron Curtain
26. Interview with Illustrator Christina Tsevis
27. Buy Nothing: No, Really, It’s For Sale
28. Carbon Sucker: CR5
29. The Jazz Loft Project
30. Super-Smart Learning
31. Tim Burton’s MoMA Retrospective
32. Social Justice with a Twist: Ctrl.Alt.Shift
33. Ed Emberley’s Make a World: The Film
34. Nonsequential Narratives: Hypertextual Books
35. Kubrick’s Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made
36. A Metaphor for Creativity: 5 Shapes, 3520 Artworks
37. Carl Sagan + Sigur Rós
38. The Visual Miscellaneum
39. Cassette From My Ex: The Book
40. Physical Data Art by Willem Besselink
41. Introducing the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
42. Dan Witz’s Dark Doings
43. Troika Moonshine 300
44. The Botany of Desire: Michael Pollan Explores Big Agriculture
45. Jonathan Harris: World Building in a Crazy World
46. Play Me, I’m Yours: Reclaiming Public Space
47. Thirty Conversations on Design
48. Esoteric Creativity: Michael Paukner’s Visualizations
49. Best Albums of October
50. East Meets West: An Infographic Portrait
51. Interview with Mary Tomer, Brains Behind Mrs-O.org
52. Retro Revival: Man as Industrial Palace
53. Strange Maps: The Book
54. The Real Godfather: Il Divo
55. Art of the Toilet Paper Roll
56. The Museum of Everything
57. One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur
58. Vintage Album Covers
59. Art, Science, Food: Kevin Van Aelst
60. Smells Like Modern Art: Six Scents Series Two
61. Experimental Cartography: The Map as Art
62. Urban Storytelling: Hitotoki
63. Journalism Redefined: The Photographer
64. Instant Classic: Whole Earth Discipline
65. SnagFilms: Democratizing Documentaries
66. Color and the Brain: Beau Lotto’s Optical Illusions
67. Last Day to Vote for Google’s Project 10^100
68. Indie Music Meets Indie Film: First Days of Spring
69. Best Albums of August & September 2009
70. Crowdsourcing 2010: Behind the3six5 Project
71. Return of the Pooh
72. 30 Years of Innovation: Happy Birthday, ITP
73. Responsive Shapes: Minivegas Digital Sculptures
74. Data Posters: FlowingPrints
75. Creativity for Sustainability: Glove Love
76. The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind: Innovation Against All Odds
77. Pictorial Webster’s: A Visual Dictionary of Victorian Curiosities
78. Short Film Spotlight: Greenpeace Global Voices
79. New Traditional: Japanese Figurines
80. Seafood Sexytime: Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno 3
81. The Art of Pixar Short Films
82. Art Meets Science: They Might Be Giants’ Creative Education
83. Illustartion Spotlight: Every Person In New York
84. Biology-Inspired Art
85. Film Spotlight: GLASS
86. Found, Photographed, Imagined: Habitat Machines
87. Valentino: The Last Emperor
88. Book Spotlight: Design Revolution
89. Robots In Our Image
90. Graphic Novel Granddaddy: Lynd Ward’s Woodcuts
91. Visualization of Global Bottled Water Consumption
92. The Darwin Song Project
93. Kidrobot QR Scavenger Hunt
94. Google Groupies Galore: Goollery
95. Symbol Signs: Helvetica Man and Beyond
96. Film Spotlight: BALIBO
97. Fun For Good: The Indie Rock Coloring Book
98. The Typophile Film Festival
99. The Ancient Book of Sex and Science
100. The Little Album That Could
101. AskNature: The Biomimicry Design Portal
102. Film Spotlight: Lemonade
103. Music Spotlight: This Must Be The Place
104. Poetry On The Road’s VisualPoetry
105. Remastered, Reinvented, Reimagined: Record Club
106. Brazil Goes Green by Doing The Yellow
107. Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life
108. Data Visualization Spotlight: In The Air
109. Collaborative Creation: PSST!
110. Subway Personality: The MBTI Map
111. The Mother of All Demos
112. Design-Off: Top 3 Live Design Competitions
113. Notes & Neurons: Music, Emotion and the Brain
114. Documentary Spotlight: Waterlife
115. Animation Spotlight: The Falcon
116. Building Rome in a Day: Crowdsourced 3D Cities
117. Digital Voyeurism: Question Suggestions
118. The Future of Data Tags: Bokodes
119. World Beats: CitySounds.fm
120. Exclusive Interview with Designer Twan Verdonck
121. BBC vs. MTV: Poetry Season
122. TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 3
123. TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 1
124. TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 4
125. TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 2
126. Behind the Scenes of TED
127. Animation Spotlight: Peripetics
128. Technofuturism: La Vitrine
129. Digital Choreography: Synchronous Objects
130. Photography Spotlight: Things
131. The Human Face, Up Close and Personal
132. Data Visualization: The Colors of Democracy
133. 5:1 Student Design Show
134. The Open_Sailing Project
135. New Music Spotlight: Regina Spektor “Far”
136. Short Film Spotlight: Synesthesia
137. Clay Shirky on Social Media, News and the Democratic Process
138. Brain Pickings Original: Typography of the SFMoMA
139. Independent Film Spotlight: Future Weather
140. Wego Motel: Soap
141. Animation Spotlight: The Chimney Sweep
142. Futility Paints Utility: Wikipedia Reproduced
143. In-Formed: Physical Objects as Data Visualization
144. Philanthropy Spotlight: 100 Girls Back to School
145. Wordnik: The Dictionary Redefined
146. Ordering The Chaos: The Internet Mapping Project
147. RiP: A Remix Manifesto
148. Exclusive Interview with Society6’s Justin Wills
149. Labuat: Soy Tu Aire
150. Emotional Cartography: Technologies of the Self
151. Kickstarter: Crowdsourced Culture-Funding
152. Multimedia Spotlight: Vocal Improvisation Animated
153. The Consequences of… Jacob Livengood
154. Heart of a City: BioMapping
155. Artist Spotlight: Stephan Zirwes Aerial Photography
156. Pick One: Hipsters Take on Culture, By Way of Helvetica
157. ComplexCity: Visualizing the Hidden Patterns of Urbanity
158. Behind the Scenes of Project N.A.S.A.
159. Into Post-Digital Creative Culture: OFFF 2009
160. Beautiful Connections: The Art of Conversation
161. Animation Spotlight: Forget
162. Artist Spotlight: Zee Avi
163. Life, Visually Dissected
164. Hyper-Marketing Meets Meta-Art: Tate Tracks
165. What NASA Can Learn from X Prize (And Vise Versa)
166. Curating Twitter: Three Hand-Picked Must-Follows
167. Running The Numbers: Oceanographic Visualization
168. We Got Time: Hand-Illustration Meets In-Camera Animation Magic
169. Writing Without Words: Visualizing Jack Kerouac’s On The Road
170. (R)evolutionary Record: The Darwin Song Project
171. Collaborative Cinema: The Hunt for Gollum
172. Photographic Time Machine
173. A Typographic Visualization of Every TED Talk, Ever
174. The Sale of Manhattan: A Saul Bass Gem Circa 1962
175. Pure Process: Picking the Creative Brain
176. Monday Music Muse: Haley Bonar
177. Truth, Beauty, Math and Crocheting
178. Earth Day The Reel Way
179. Monday Music Muse: Brain-Picking Ghost Away
180. Film Spotlight: Paper Heart
181. The Housing Crisis in 3D
182. As Seen On Earth: The Infinite Photograph
183. Lynching Moby
184. Creative Pause: Todd St. John & HunterGatherer
185. LBB + OLPC = GOOD
186. Exactitudes: Cross-Cultural Photo-Anthropology Explores the Myth of Unique Identity
187. Monday Music Muse: Anathallo
188. Paper Whimsy: Top 5 Artists
189. Bicycle Built for 2,000
190. Monday Music Muse: The Botticellis
191. 20 Steps to Sustainable Cities
192. The MacGuffin Library
193. Sustainable Agriculture: Top 5 Innovation Efforts
194. Photography Spotlight: The 50 States Project
195. Sound Meets Image: Visual Tributes to Music
196. Earth Hour 2009
197. Meta-Vinyl Creativity
198. Monday Music Muse: Kat Edmonson
199. The Library Rethought
200. Monday Music Muse: Lisa Hannigan
201. Animation Gem: Brothers Grimm Meet Röyksopp
202. How Happiness Happens
203. Monday Music Muse: Dan Auerbach
204. The Creative (Re)Touch
205. Product Design Spotlight: The Little Bottle That Could
206. The World of 100: Our Global Village
207. Accidents: The Abstract Art of Data Visualization Goofs
208. Hungry Planet: How The World Eats, or Doesn’t
209. Transform: The Journey to Creative Contentment
210. Interview with Chunnel.TV Founder Matthew Berman
211. The New Orchestra: Symphonic Innovation Around the World
212. Sign of The Times: Data Visualization Heaven
213. The Secret Lives of Secret Places
214. Monday Music Muse: Blame Ringo
215. Similarities: Because It’s All Been Done
216. The Art of Identity
217. Repurposed Art: The Second Life of Cardboard
218. GOOD Magazine: The Real Stimulus Package
219. Geek Tuesday: Data Immersion Gone Wild
220. TEDify: Ideas Worth Connecting
221. Vintage Design: Innovation Lessons from the Past
222. Monday Music Muse: First Aid Kit
223. Spotlight: Cherri Wood
224. Monday Music Muse: Peter Buffett
225. Revisiting the Retail Experience: BBlessing
226. Perroquet: Photography, Science, Slow-Motion Beauty
227. TED 2009 Highlights: Day 2
228. Art of The Cover: Book Cover Design Inspiration
229. Monday Music Muse: Keren Ann
230. TED 2009 Highlights: Day 1
231. Design, Life, Digital: Best of DLD 2009
232. Monday Music Muse: Matt and Kim
233. Lights, Camera, Ticket
234. Show & Tell: A Century of Illustrated Letters
235. Duper Bowl: Alternative Super Bowl Logos
236. Artist Spotlight: Volkan Ergen
237. Best of Bike Culture: Innovation Top 5
238. Animation Spotlight: Big Buck Bunny
239. Famous Designers on Design: 5 Beautiful Book Covers
240. Monday Music Muse: Rachael Cantu
241. Show & Tell: Mapping Obama’s Speech
242. Monday Music Muse: The Midnight Show
243. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Word-of-Mouths
244. The Story of Stuff
245. Illustration Showcase: 5 Artists to Watch
246. Vintage Russian Ads
247. Monday Music Muse: Lionel Neykov
248. The Sky in Motion: 7,000 NASA Images in a Mesmerizing Timelapse
249. Uncovered Gem of the Week: Tarsem’s The Fall
250. Objectified: Dissecting Design
251. Holiday Economy Examined
252. Coming to a Best-of-2009 List Near You
253. Birth of an Idea: The Ride

2008

1. Catch of the Day
2. A Little Awkward
3. The Art of the Doodle
4. A Library of Human Imagination
5. The Year in Ideas: 8 Best of 2008
6. Famous Logos Revised: Fortune 500 Sans Fortune
7. Artist Spotlight: Alan Macdonald
8. History, Animated, Quick and Uneuphemistic
9. The Real Beauty Industry
10. In other news…
11. Retro Revival: The Depths of Soul
12. Giving Design
13. RSS Minimalism
14. 2008 in Album Art
15. Small World, Big Bite
16. Geek Wednesdays: The Ephemeral Web
17. World AIDS Day 2008: Join the Fight
18. Photoshop: As Real As It Gets
19. Photography Spotlight: The Obama Phenomenon
20. I Met The Walrus: Lennon’s Brain Animated
21. Life on Google
22. 6 Signs the Apocalypse Cometh
23. Tidying Up Art: Ursus Wehrli Deconstructs Iconic Paintings
24. Mac in the Produce Aisle
25. Playing Nice: 5 Pro-Social Web Games
26. Army Goes Ghost
27. Buddhist Bottle Temple
28. Artist Spotlight: Teddy Zareva
29. Child Art for Grown-Ups
30. Blooper Troopers
31. Best of Election Season Innovation
32. Don’t Click It
33. Chris Jordan’s Photographic Visualizations of Excess
34. Geek Mondays: Dating Data Art
35. Pepsi: Can It?
36. Starving Artist No More
37. Geek Mondays: Unlimited Solar Power
38. Nomadic Living 2.0
39. Creative Clockwork
40. Photography Spotlight: Blue Planet Run
41. Dan Price, Revealed
42. Bell’s Underdog: Elisha Gray and the Telephone
43. Furniture Design Spotlight: HUG Chair
44. Mad Men Illustrated
45. Banksy’s Pet Project
46. The Other Electorate
47. Geek Mondays: LEGO Time
48. The Mother of All Music Visualization
49. LED The Way
50. She, Him & Us
51. (P)hilly PARK(ing)
52. Breaking: YouTube Clicks Into Retail
53. Image Search Redefined
54. Reverse Psychology Halloween Edition
55. Mac Guy Speaks Up
56. Artist Spotlight: Adrian Johnson
57. The Genographic Project: DNA Testing Hits Home
58. Deadliest Itch: Malaria Awareness Mosquito-Mosaic Posters
59. Cartography by the People
60. You Better Believe It
61. Spotlight Series: Gimme Moore
62. Hidden Music Top 3
63. Sky Blue Sky
64. Globe-Trotting Goodness
65. Retro Blast
66. New York, New York
67. Quick Brains-Up
68. Live Responsible is the New LIVESTRONG
69. Inner Kid Fodder
70. It Happened Today
71. Monkey See Monkey Make NBC Look Bad
72. Blame It on the Weatherman
73. Scrabulous Down, Scrabble Downer
74. Friday FYI: You’re Richer Than You Think
75. Friday FYI: Itchy Throat
76. Street Pickings: Riding Rebels
77. Re:Perception
78. Inflated Claims of Art
79. Oh, Conan
80. Power to the People
81. Carriers Rethought
82. Artist Spotlight: Alice Wang
83. Friday FYI: Happy Place
84. Friday FYI: The Legal Performance-Enhancer
85. The Reel Stuff: Top 3 Sites for Harcore Film Buffs
86. Animal Farm
87. Friday FYI: Stop the Hiccups
88. Friday FYI: Toothache Be Gone
89. Mobile Madness
90. Just Press Rewind
91. Friday FYI: Hate Mornings Less
92. RFID vs. Honor
93. Layman Voyeurism
94. Customization Gone Wild
95. Friday FYI: Auditory Freedom
96. Birdseye Visionaire
97. Superhero Superdose
98. Hodgepodge of Cool | Mindless Fun
99. Reclaiming Urban Landscape | Part 4
100. Hodgepodge of Cool | SHEEP!
101. Incredible Edibles
102. 5 Ways to Get More of Life in the City
103. Reclaiming Urban Landscape: Graffiti Subversion
104. Down With The Man | Part 1
105. Govit: A New Social Network for the Politically-Minded
106. Reclaiming Urban Landscape | Part 1
107. Down With The Man | Part 2
108. Down With The Man | Part 4
109. Down With The Man | Part 5
110. Down With The Man | Part 7
111. Earth Day the Wired Way
112. Down With The Man | Part 6
113. Hear Ye, Hear Ye
114. 7 Ways To Free Yourself
115. B-Sides and Breakaways
116. The Nonjudgmental Issue
117. Context vs. Controversy
118. Concepts Revisited
119. All Things Hacked
120. Re:thought
121. Living Design
122. No Rim Kiss Needed
123. SPECIAL: Because It Is
124. Get Stuff Done
125. New Ways of Doing
126. Unexpected Sources
127. Geography, Topography, and Everythingography
128. Feeling Thoughts, Playing Visions
129. Culture-Crossing Subcultures
130. Gags, Drags and Other Oddities

2007

1. SPECIAL: Second Annual Not-So-Much Awards
2. Fine, It’s The Holidays
3. Eye Wonder
4. The Last and the Curious
5. Think, Or Don’t
6. Didn’t See It Coming
7. All Kinds of Shakers
8. Price Tags of Life
9. Things To Look At, Things To See
10. Angles, Visions and Illusions
11. Expectation Shmexpectation
12. Hits, Punches and Other Impact
13. The Bookworm Issue
14. This Week…
15. Flying with the Future while Mooning the Past
16. In The Spotlight
17. Gadgetry, Widgetry and You-name-itgetry
18. Big, Tall and Pushing the Other Dimensions
19. Special
20. Mmm-Hmmm
21. Sex and Sensibility