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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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‘She is living on in many hearts’ – Otto Frank on the legacy of his daughter’s diary | Aeon Videos In this 1976 clip from the long-running BBC children’s show Blue Peter, the UK presenter Valerie Singleton travels to the now-famous Amsterdam house where the teenage Anne Frank hid from Nazi persecution in a secret annex…
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James Surowiecki More than sixty years after his death, Frantz Fanon’s work—with its keen and biting insights into the psychology of racial and colonial oppression and its radical critique of essentialist conceptions of identity—continues to feel startlingly of the moment. And Fanon’s short life, during which he played so many different roles (psychiatrist, revolutionary propagandist, existentialist…
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by Agnes Callard, Becca Rothfeld From “Should Writers Talk?,” a discussion that was held in January at the University of Chicago. agnes callard: One of the reasons you give for why writers shouldn’t talk is that you see writing as being more malleable, because conversation does not allow for revision or retraction. I found that surprising.…
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The celebrated novelist on being blacklisted in her homeland, literary snobs and why writing is harder than people thinkClaire Allfree Related Topics 05 November 2024 9:30am GMT The House of the Spirits author Isabel Allende: ‘What does it say about men if women are fantasising about amphibians?’ Credit: Isabel Allende It’s 8am in the morning in…
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