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A Certain Slant of Light
The winning and losing of beauty
 • Claire March
Joy is a Season: Sadness and Whether I Believe in Magic Still
On not being good at joy: joy is a season, not a lifestyle or achievement. It seasons itself in and out of our lives: the moods the hours the days…
 • Claire March
Failing at Reading a Russian Epic, James Islington's Magic School Fantasy, plus Wendell Berry
We need more fantasy inspired by the Roman Empire
 • Claire March
On Being: When Dreams Die
I have been one acquainted with the death of dreams. And what I'm pondering this week is - what are the ways we work our way through the death of…
 • Claire March
Advent Calendar: Poem
He will come like frost
 • Claire March
3 Things: Whimsical Pascal Campion art, What if Freud and C.S. Lewis Met, and a Guide to Female Hormones
The magic and loneliness of big-city living, Freud's Last Session movie starring Anthony Hopins and Matthew Goode, and Huberman Labs on what's up with…
 • Claire March
Warm Things: New Meg Ryan romcom, Rabbit Room Writing Classes, Book Recs
The return of Hollywood rom-coms, Harriot Hare children's book, and happiness
 • Claire March
Deep like a River: On Paradox and Sorrow
No one tells you how deep the paradox of Christianity runs. That it is a river, warm at the top and icy cold to the bones underneath, a bracing shock of…
 • Claire March
On Happiness and Unhappiness
All of the good to excellent books I’ve read in the last year on the topic of unhappiness have essentially argued, at one point or another, that the way…
 • Claire March
On Being
On Being
On Being explores the wildness of human emotion: the nature of loneliness & faith, the viscerality of suffering, the possibilities of existence. This newsletter tries to talk about what it *feels* like to be alive.
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