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- Sep 24, 2026
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Naming life's little joys (opens the original)
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Last May, just as Boston was finally wrenching itself from winter’s grip, “Every Brilliant Thing,” a play written by Duncan Macmillan with help from Jonny Donahoe, was getting a lot of attention on Broadway. The one-actor show is about a man who grew up with a suicidal mother. As a boy, the man begins to write a list of life’s pleasures — his strategy for giving his mom reasons to live — but over time, as he contends with his own depression, the list becomes a coping mechanism, his way of moving
What we still hold, 25 years later (opens the original)
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Editor's Note: This essay appeared in Cognoscenti's newsletter of ideas and opinions, delivered weekly on Sundays. To become a subscriber, sign up here. We passed a somber milestone on Friday: 25 years since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. All last week, as the day approached, the “Where were you?” question came up again and again, with friends, neighbors and colleagues. Everyone old enough to remember that day had a clear recollection of how and when they heard the news — even if they didn’t suf
Best-laid travel plans (opens the original)
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Editor's Note: This essay appeared in Cognoscenti's newsletter of ideas and opinions, delivered weekly on Sundays. To become a subscriber, sign up here. I was on vacation with my family last week, one final hurrah before the new school year. My husband and I took our three kids to California for an epic road trip: Driving Route 1, the coastal highway, from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Some friends heard this and said, “That’s amazing!” Others learned of our plans and said (if not these exact wo
Productive friction: Talking about AI and creativity (opens the original)
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An excerpt of this piece appeared in Cog’s weekly newsletter. To become a subscriber, sign up here. When I think of AI, the first things that come to mind are: billionaire tech bros, the data center wars, our new weirdo data-scraping internet (thanks Google), job loss, kitchen-sink dinner recipes, bloated writing, medical research and sycophantic chatbots that some users think of as friends, medical professionals, even lovers. What I definitely do not think about when I think about AI is creativ
'You Could Make This Beautiful’: A Q&A with Maggie Smith and Faith Salie (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: An excerpt of this interview appeared in Cog’s weekly Sunday newsletter. To become a subscriber, sign up here. We have a treat for you this week: an exclusive interview with Maggie Smith and Faith Salie about their brand new three-episode podcast series, “You Could Make This Beautiful,” produced by WBUR. Maggie is a poet, an educator and an author. The line “you could make this place beautiful” from her poem “Good Bones” became a rallying cry during the pandemic — maybe that’s how
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