What to do when the world gets you down; Mary Shelley's father on parenting and how an early love of reading paves the path to happiness; and more

Midweek pick-me-up: How do you know whether you love somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum's incompleteness theorem of the heart, from Plato to Proust

Gorgeous illustrations from the world's first encyclopedia of trees, Kahlil Gibran on time, Neil Gaiman reads his humanistic poem for refugees

Midweek pick-me-up: The year of better listening—humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm's 6 rules of listening & unselfish understanding