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A Sense of Where You Are | the New Yorker

John McPhee newyorker.com

How an 18th-Century Philosopher Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis

Alison Gopnik theatlantic.com

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Five Principles of Personal Freedom

Arthur C. Brooks theatlantic.com

A Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Person

David Brooks theatlantic.com

The Mind of John McPhee

Sam Anderson nytimes.com

A biographer of the novelist E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” Imagine how good it would be to be that guy.

David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande

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Opinion | My Own Life (Published 2015)

Oliver Sacks nytimes.com

The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

Gordon Marino

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