Alexandra Barylski | The Poetry Peddler
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Executive Editor, Marginalia Review of Books @marginaliaROB 📚| Co-Founder, The Writing College 📖🖌| Living as a subversive activity ✨ The Poetry Peddler
Joined April 2013
Excited to be inside as a writer this round!
The new issue! 📚🎉 In this issue, we inaugurate our Forum on The Bible: A Global History (@BasicBooks), by Bruce Gordon, the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History @Yale Divinity School (@YaleDivSchool). The Forum will include, among many themes, discussions of the
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How to train your oak seedling 🌱 Resistance workouts are important for all living things You need to replicate the wind that indoor trees will face when in the wild later, or they will not survive There is only one way to this
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The text I received last night about 5 minutes after publishing the new issue: “It is so 🔥.”
NEW ISSUE ✨ | We are delighted to announce our new series on poetry and translation, pioneered by the nuclear radiologist, poet, and novelist, @AmitMajmudar, Marginalia’s George Steiner Editor for Poetry and Criticism. 📝The first essay and translation is by poet, translator,
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🥳🥳🥳 and we’re back! Welcome to the Age of Geist (not in the machine). 👇👇👇
Spirituality has shifted from the margins to the mainstream, emerging as a powerful influence on health, ethics, and politics in contemporary societies. What was once regarded as a private or religious concern now flows through wellness practices, youth movements, and social and
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So excited to see that our new Poet Laureate will emphasize the importance of poetry in translation!
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“Answers are easy, questions are hard. And if you didn’t know that you might spend an awful lot of your time looking for answers when you really should be looking for questions.” Marshall McLuhan January 22, 1973
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Living my Max Perkins dream. ✨🪄✨ Another incredible issue @MarginaliaROB
🎉NEW ISSUE! (1/2)What can Science teach us about life? In this final summer issue, we feature: 🧬Sir Paul Nurse, Director of @TheCrick, and Philip Ball, author of “How Life Works (@UChicagoPress) discuss the nature of life and the post-genomic paradigm in biology, and how
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Quantum mechanics is better when it involves escaping allergies, choppy North Sea ferry rides, and post-war seaside towns filled with the smell of fish n chips. And French poetry is at its best when served with coffee and Romanic, dark elegance.
NEW ISSUE 🥳 This year marks the centenary of quantum mechanics, a revolution born on the tiny island of Helgoland off of the coast of Germany, where Werner Heisenberg, seeking relief from hay fever, had the breakthrough that reshaped physics forever. 🧬 In this issue, Philip
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As always, so much to love in a single @MarginaliaROB issue, but my personal favorite line has to be @AmitMajmudar: “So, basically, you want me to be an irreverent amnesiac? No, thank you.” 🙏
NEW ISSUE 🎉In the face of compelling evidence for seemingly unexplainable phenomena, what do you do? There are two options. 1️⃣Be dogmatic and ignore it, which is our natural habit because it preserves stability. 2️⃣Or be scientific and study it as carefully as possible, which
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The Consolation of Philosophy is high on my list of favorite books that are often dipped into for a moment of delight or re-read with pleasure. Thank you @SamuelLoncar for sharing its beauty and wisdom in your lecture, “The Song of Boethius.” 🙏
If there is a wheel of fortune, who spins it and what can humans do about it? Ancient thinkers had very different answers to this deep problem. Today, Boethius and Cicero have their say about fate and fortune, as told by Matthew Gluckman of @HackleySchool:
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Every two weeks, the dream comes into reality. 🙌💪
NEW ISSUE 🧵| Jesus and Socrates, philosophy and Christianity, can seem far apart even as they sometimes collapse into a blurred unity. They have a connection that has attracted and perplexed the deepest minds, rooted in the role of Love in their lives. According to the New
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Silas Marner became one of my favorite books at age 16. And George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) remains, for me, a most beloved writer and philosopher. Daniel Deronda is only a close second to Silas Marner because first book love has deep roots.
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“We only meet exceptional hobbits in close companionship – those who had a grace or gift: a vision of beauty, and a reverence for things nobler than themselves, at war with their rustic self-satisfaction.” - Tolkien Letter 246
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Currently reading. Thank you for the recommendation! 📚If you love reading and writing, this is 💯 the math book for you.
Mathematica by @davidbessis is a must read commentary on this quote. One could argue Bessis’ entire book is simply taking Einstein at his word, and showing where it leads, which is a profound new image of what math, and the human mind, really are. It’s been changing my life.
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🧵1/2 🔬To get to the essence of life, we are pushing the boundaries of fundamental science, led by Philip Ball, our Editor for Science, and partnering with the Francis Crick Institute and its Director, Sir Paul Nurse, who explains his Nobel-winning work on the cell in our
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💐FRESH FROM the FIELDS 💐 A gathering of flowers, in Latin, becomes the lovely word, florilegium, in botany a bouquet, and in the literary culture of the middle ages, the humble and refreshing basis of Marginalia. As scholars scribbled marginal notes on their anthologies,
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