Books | How to Live

The Feeling of the Form: On the Nature of Taste

Why this and not that?

Amanda Stern

How to Learn Anything, Really

Richard Feynman’s Timeless Strategy

Amanda Stern

The Necessary Unknown: The Voynich Manuscript, Winnicott's Third Space, and Why We Need What We Cannot Understand

The cognitive pull of the unsolvable

Amanda Stern

The Beautiful Trap: How Limerence Warps Perception and Fuels Obsession

The intrusive and inescapable high that isn't love, at all.

Amanda Stern

Creative Inputs: Artists, Ideas, and One Song on Repeat

These things are bringing me joy

Amanda Stern

The Basement Prisoners: How Dorothea Dix Exposed America's Hidden Mental Health Horrors

A 19th Century Teacher's Campaign Revolutionized Patient Care

Amanda Stern

The Survival Paradox: How Sexual Violence Hijacks Our Most Ancient Protection System and Why Victims Comfort Their Abusers.

On Fawning, in Response to the New York Article about Neil Gaiman

Amanda Stern

Feeling Before Thinking: What Susan Sontag Taught Us About Experience as the True Language of Understanding

Why Direct Experience Transcends Academic Knowledge

Amanda Stern

Year End Gifts For You

A non-denominational virtual stocking

Amanda Stern

What’s Worth Sharing: Art, Cinema, and the Books That Stay With Us

From my house to yours...

Amanda Stern

In the Depths of Uncertainty: Rebecca Solnit on Keeping Hope Alive

What we do now matters

Amanda Stern

Things Worth Sharing: What I'm Reading, Watching & Thinking About

Current doings at Stern Enterprises

Amanda Stern