40 Great Articles & Essays about Life
Interesting articles and essays about life to read online -- The best short articles and essays about lifeThe Meaning of Life
Attitude by Margaret Atwood
You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality.The Capital T Truth by David Foster Wallace
Wallace's 2005 Kenyon College commencement address: a stark but hopeful perspective on life’s fundamental questionsThis Is the Life Annie Dillard
You enjoy work and will love your grandchildren, and somewhere in there you die.The Force That Drives the Flower by Annie Dillard
What is it about fecundity that so appalls? Is it that with nature's bounty goes a crushing waste that threatens our own cheap lives?Running After Your Hat by G.K. Chesterton
A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a wifeWhy Go Out? by Sheila Heti
At home, you can wear your pyjamas. When you’re out, you could be snubbed, or disappointed. The scotch is not cheap…Phoning It In by Stanley Bing
She gave me this long and involved story about a huge slight that was inflicted on her operation by some other entity someplace, and I was looking out the window and thinking, whoa, look at that BMW Z8Scars by David Owen
A life in injuriesThe Same River Twice by David Quammen
You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on. To most people it comes across as a nice resonant metaphor, a bit of philosophic poetry. To me it is that and moreThe Science of Life
How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder by Philip Ball
What’s the difference between physics and biology?The Radical Implications of Luck in Life by David Roberts
Acknowledging the role of luck is the secular equivalent of religious awakening
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Life in the Modern World
Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead by Chuck Klosterman
Zombies are like the Internet and the media and every conversation we don’t want to have...Things We Think We Know by Chuck Klosterman
We all hate stereotypes. Seriously. Dude, we fucking hate them… except that we don’tNo One 'Has It All,' Because 'Having It All' Doesn't Exist by Lindy West
Look at me, "eating" my "cake"! And that "other" "cake" too!Love and Relationships
Masters of Love by Emily Esfahani Smith
Science says lasting relationships come down to — you guessed it —kindness and generosityLove by Lauren Slater
Scientists say that the brain chemistry of infatuation is akin to mental illness—which gives new meaning to ‘madly in love'Scars by David Owen
A life in injuries12 Revelations About Sex by Alain de Botton
In order to transcend the discomfort that sex typically stirs, you may need to radically rethink desire, marriage, fidelity, and much more
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Growing Up
When Are You Really an Adult? by Julie Beck
In an age when the line between childhood and adulthood is blurrier than ever, what is it that makes people grown up?The Onset by My Ngoc To
When I was about six weeks old and still inside my mother, my milk lines formed...How Friendships Change in Adulthood by Julie Beck
We need to catch up soon!
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Having Kids
How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby? by Jean Twenge
Deep anxiety about the ability to have children later in life plagues many women. But the decline in fertility over the course of a woman's 30s has been oversold. Here's what the statistics really tell us—and what they don'tForty Thoughts on a Fourth Daughter by Mark Oppenheimer
On becoming a father for the fourth time
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Work
After Life by Joan Didion
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.Now We Are Five by David Sedaris
On the death of a sibiling
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
40 Great Articles & Essays about Life
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