Maria Popova is a writer at The Marginalian. With nearly two decades of experience, she explores themes in culture and society, focusing on cultural movements, fine art, and social interest, including gender and women's issues. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including War on the Rocks, Nautilus Magazine, and TED Conferences.
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Maria Popova's articles focus on opinion editorials and how-to guides related to scientific, cultural, and societal topics such as art, poetry, nature, philosophy, and science. She may be interested in pitches that provide unique perspectives or practical advice within these areas of interest. Given her coverage attributes and themes covered, potential sources for Maria could include experts in the fields of literature, environmental science or conservationists who can offer insightful commentary or guidance on various aspects of nature and its relation to culture and society. Additionally, individuals with a deep understanding of philosophical concepts or artistic expression would likely resonate well with her coverage.
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By: Maria Popova
Few things in our culture are more wounding than the concept of healing — as if the pains and losses that we suffer are an illness, a malfunction of the psyche to be cut out like a tumor, rather than a natural function of being alive, of feeling life deeply and living it fully. All our sorrows have been wasted if we have not learned to suffer and to be surprised by
By: Maria Popova
Like consciousness, like music, like love , life itself didn't have to exist — nothing in the fundamental laws demands it.
By: Maria Popova
In late 1884, Adelaide Boodle — talented, timorous, still in her twenties — received news so thrilling she thought she was dreaming: Her favorite author was moving into the small town on the south coast of England that had always been her home. Having longed to be a writer since childhood, she seized the chance to learn from one of the world's greatest storytellers.
By: Maria Popova
One December afternoon, I arrived in Patagonia with a big blue backpack, a small bilingual edition of Pablo Neruda's love poems, and a broken heart. (Though a heart, of course,
By: Maria Popova
“Let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped,” moving beyond us vs. them and marrying conviction with compassion . But what does kindness mean, really, and how does it manifest?
There is no other way work of artistic worth can be done. And the occasional success, to the striver, is worth everything. The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
In the middle of my bleakest winter, my friend gave me a battered copy of a forgotten book from her elderly father's used bookshop in rural Texas, by a man named Hockley Clarke. I inhaled it in a day.
By: Maria Popova
Once, I spent a year walking Brooklyn's historic Green-Wood Cemetery daily, winding between the marble tombs engulfed by tree-roots and emblazoned with the surnames of the dead, each followed by a full stop to demarcate the terminus of life. It hovers there, so sure of itself, this punctuational emblem of an irrevocable end. And yet the surety of science about
By: Maria Popova
On a recent flight, I watched a mother across the aisle play peek-a-boo with her small son while next to me a grown man in a VR headset spent six hours ascending the levels of a video game. It occurred to me that what I was doing between them — reading — was also a game: a peek-a-boo of ideas advancing across levels of meaning. I thought of Newton, who
We are shaped by all we have suffered — by what harrows us — and in turn shape our lives by how we hold our harrowing. shares its Middle English
