The Serviceberry – Robin Wall Kimmerer
As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.
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Toni Morrison Commencent speech 2004
Toni Morrison's 2004 speech at Wellesley College.
Maria Ressa delivers the Commencement Address | Harvard Commencement 2024
On May 23, 2024, Maria Ressa, a recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, addressed the graduating Class of 2024.
George Saunders Convocation Speech 2013
George Saunders G'88, professor of English and author of The New York Times best-seller Tenth of December (Random House, 2013), delivered the following speec...
George Saunders Is No Saint (Despite What You May Have Heard)
The celebrated author on the challenges of being kind, the benefits of meditation and the reality check of death.
Opinion | The ‘Attention Economy’ Is a Lie
It started in a laboratory. No one could have predicted where it would end.
Marie Howe — The Power of Words to Save Us
The words and silences we live by. The rituals that sustain us. The poetry of ordinary time.
You don’t need a 10-year plan. You need to experiment. | Anne-Laure Le Cunff
“By not focusing on the outcome and instead designing a tiny experiment, what you can do is letting go of any definition of success, letting go of that binar...
Breaking Open the Box: A Conversation with Toi Derricotte
by Nancy Koerbel “There are just all kinds of ways to diminish yourself, but your writing is a way to think of yourself as an expansive self. “
Arundhati Roy on Her Dual Identity as Fiery Political Commentator and Soft-Spoken Novelist
Two decades ago, Arundhati Roy released her first novel, The God of Small Things. The response was pretty much everything an author could hope for from...