On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of LifeTen essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives. How do we live fully? How do we live successfully? Adrift in an anchorless world, we often worry about where we are heading. What meaning can we hope to find in our modern, secular life? The answer, Ben Hutchinson explains, can be found by looking to writers and thinkers to help us live more purposefully, more mindfully more fully.

even if he hasn’t met them yet

God is in the trees and the birds and the smiles of babies

the growth of the global brain

and her novel illuminates the shadows cloaking our digital lives

told in Struthers’s lively voice and illustrated with custom line drawings by her husband and fellow watchmaker Craig

three men converge in the southern woods of what is now Alabama

These are the things that have always freaked him out

and build a good credit history

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When the tenth poem arrives exactly twenty-four hours after Elisa’s death

is the constant butt of his father’s jokes and victim of his brothers’ indifference

Le obsesiona el deseo de demostrar que sigue viva