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John Berger on how oil painting and advertising teach us to look; the BBC series as a book.

Scott McCloud explains how comics work, as a comic; the textbook of the form.

Write and record original musical composition

Create and release full album of music

Five hundred pounds a year and a room with a lock; Woolf's essay on women and writing.

Pessoa's assistant bookkeeper Bernardo Soares and his fragments; the anti-novel of Lisbon.

A botanist and Potawatomi woman on what plants teach about gratitude; the slow bestseller.

Ta-Nehisi Coates writes to his son about being Black in America; a letter in the tradition of Baldwin.