Constellating Wonder: Celebrating 20 Years of The Marginalian (October 23, 2026)

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Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success

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How Humanity Saved the Ginkgo

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The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on How to Grow Old and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart

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The Kiln and the Quantum of Relationships

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Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling

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J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”

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The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece

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The Wisdom of Water: Alan Watts on the Ocean and the Meaning of Life

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Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life

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Your Brain on Grief, Your Heart on Healing

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Anaïs Nin on Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Creativity

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How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself

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The Stoic Antidote to Frustration: Marcus Aurelius on How to Keep Your Mental Composure and Emotional Equanimity When People Let You Down

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Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss

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Swimming and the Meaning of Life

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Thank You, Everything: An Illustrated Love Letter to the World

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Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning

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How to Hold What Harrows You

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A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings

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