Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
“Poetry can break open locked chambers of possibility, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire,” Adrienne Rich
Maria Popova • The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece
dysentery
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
Paths to Transcendence: According to Shankara, Ibn Arabi, and Meister Eckhart
David Bentley Hart • The Experience of God
the human megaphone is in full swing.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
There is a depth of wisdom in language’s flexibility, in the soma of its poetry.
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
also someone engaged in a deep, ambitious pursuit of knowledge and beauty.
Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
awash in natural light.
John McPhee • Draft No. 4
Wallace’s fictional manuscript and the philosophy thesis were also of a piece: both asked whether language depicted the world or in some deeper way defined it and even altered it.