Readings

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Alone in the Global Village

Even now that the world is mapped over, and even the farthest reaches paradoxically familiar—people still travel, and still find their lonely selves out there. This is a theme of Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel.

Forgive Me, Father: Greatness and Disorder in James Agee’s Letters

The fullness of Agee’s character, searching and self-punishing, is hard to glean from a single work; his newly reprinted letters to Father Flye, capturing the author throughout his life and at his most untethered, bring us closer than anything else.

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‘We Can Be Vibrating Strings Of Energy’: An Interview with Dr. Eben Alexander

The author of Proof of Heaven explains how a Near-Death Experience made him think differently about consciousness, and why science needs to shed its materialism for a more spiritual approach.