Winter: Five Windows on the Season (CBC Massey Lecture)

Adam Gopnik

“If we didn’t remember winter in spring, it wouldn’t be as lovely; if we didn’t think of spring in winter, or search winter to find some new emotion of its own to make up for the absent ones, half of the keyboard of life would be missing. We would be playing life with no flats or sharps, on a piano with no black keys.”

Adam Gopnik’s beautiful love letter to winter’s splendor and significance:

Angels and Ages: Lincoln, Darwin, and the Birth of the Modern Age

Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik on Darwin’s brilliant strategy for disarming criticism and the mark of genius: