Favorite Books of 2025
Spring Moon at Ninomiya Beach , 1931 — one of Hasui Kawase’s stunning vintage Japanese woodblocks. (Available as a print.)
Maria Popova • Favorite Books of 2025
Art by Winifred Bromhall from Silver Pennies by Blanche Jennings Thompson, 1887. (Available as a print, benefitting The New York Public Library.)
Maria Popova • Favorite Books of 2025
Narrow the aperture of your attention enough to take in any one thing fully, and it becomes a portal to everything. Anneal that attention enough so that you see whatever and whoever is before you free from expectation, unfiltered through your fantasies or needs, and it becomes love.