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My disenchantment with the ambition industry and the violence of professional success had brought me here. My hopelessly romantic need to live like a tree, with other trees in a forest, had guided me to where self-containment and self-contentment were the abiding ethic.
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Why have hermits and thinkers gone to the forest to surrender to its stillness? There is a connection between forest life and creativity, whether spiri…
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Mehmed Paa Sokolovi Bridge in Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Photo by Hristo Rusev/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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At its most elevated, Seminary Co-op Director Jeff Deutsch’s defense of the “cultural good” of bookselling becomes a defense of a whole constellation o…
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The Seminary Co-op began as an improvisation and became an institution. How a bookstore staked a claim for bookselling as a cultural mission.
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Ingrid is alone on a small Norwegian island called Barroy. She’s away from her friends and family, and she hasn’t spoken out loud for weeks. She doesn’…
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Tompkins Square Park was at the center of everything. It was where I made my friends, and it was where my mother made hers. All the bohemian mothers gr…
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When I was a student in East Germany in the seventies, the suspicion that there was something wrong with the language of my school days, the German of …
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