Journal

For the Friend Who Quotes Things at You — Gifts That Quote Back

You know exactly who this is for. They're the friend who sends you a quote when you're going through something. Who has a Seneca line for every situation. Who will text you Rumi at 11pm not to be ...

Graduation Gift Ideas for the Person Who Thinks Too Much

Graduation gifts face a specific challenge: the person receiving them is in transition, which means almost anything too rooted in where they've been or too prescriptive about where they're going ca...

What to Get the Philosophy Major Who Has Everything

Philosophy students are, as a category, simultaneously very easy and very hard to shop for. Easy, because their interests are known. Hard, because they're particular. They have opinions about whic...

The Best Gifts for Readers Who Already Have Every Book They Want

Every reader has a wish list longer than their shelves and a pile of unread books that they are, optimistically, going to get to. Giving a serious reader a book is a genuine minefield — you might p...

The Introvert's Reading List: Books by the Authors on Our Shirts

The shirts come first — a line that stops you, a quote you keep thinking about. But every quote lives inside a larger work, and that larger work is usually the more interesting conversation. This ...