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Some final insights from the poet, novelist and teacher Ocean Vuong:

Mouths

The German philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist, Walter Benjamin, said that the novel is actually a break from storytelling.

Change

When my father was born in Minden, Nebraska in 1923 …

Noticing, part 3

Learning to see the same things other people see – but differently – requires space.

Witnesses

When we encounter the universe that is another person, we have a menu of choices of how to respond. Rabbi Ariel Burger observes two challenges with otherness, in the sense that it can be used either as a weapon or a barrier: “we fall into the trap of not listening, [or] we are overfamiliar and […]

The ninth symphony

n the last decade of his life, completely deaf, Ludwig van Beethoven created his Ninth Symphony.