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An inspiration engine for ideas
Towards a new history – of emperors
Mary Beard • SPQR
if there had been a way of going to America without marrying one, we would have figured it out.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
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Amor Towles • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
The dead are close,
Hannah Kent • The Good People
Emanating from these lives are larger questions about the measure of a good life and what it means to leave a lasting mark of betterment on an imperfect world: Are achievement and acclaim enough for happiness? Is genius? Is love? Weaving through the narrative is a set of peripheral figures — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Barrett Br... See more
Maria Popova • Figuring
