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Maria Popova: The Secret Behind 20 Years of Daily Writing
The writer behind the legendary blog “The Marginalian” David Perell May 13, 2026 vMaria Popova is famous for her personal blog, The Marginalian, where she’s published more than six million words. All the nights I’ve spent reading her writing were like an entry point into intellectual curiosity. She’s introduced me to more writers and ideas than just…
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I believe poetry can be a place of nourishment, a bounty, a feast. —Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas For as long as there have been writers, there have been texts that have been challenged, censored, burned, and banned. The stories of banned literature do not just belong in the history books; even today, some…
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Dear friend,Israel cannot conduct its genocide against the Palestinians alone. Without US-led diplomatic support to backstop its impunity to international law, British surveillance flights, US financing and weaponry and global energy shipments, Israel’s war machine would grind to a halt. That’s why efforts to disrupt the flow of arms and energy are so vital — and…
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Music & Literature: a humanities journal September 11, 2014by Keenan McCracken One of contemporary American fiction’s most lauded and prolific novelists, Richard Powers might also be described as the autodidact’s autodidact. An amateur musician and composer, former physicist, and self-taught computer programmer, Powers has become known for his deftness at tracing out the subtle interrelationships between…
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By Maria Popova In a lifetime of living in this body, I have known no more powerful a homecoming than music — nothing roots us more firmly into the house of being, nothing levitates us more buoyantly to that transcendent place beyond marrow and mind. Stripped of its nihilistic drama, there is an elemental cry…
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One century ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald invited us into the lives of the “rotten crowd,” Jazz Age Americans with far more money than morals. In A Rotten Crowd: America, Wealth, and One Hundred Years of The Great Gatsby, John Marsh welcomes us back to Fitzgerald’s world to examine the rich and their reckless approach to human…
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