The Marginalian Honors Late Friend Emily Levine's Legacy

What Happened The Marginalian, the popular literary blog by Maria Popova, published a moving memorial piece titled “How to Live and How to Die” on February 15, 2026. The article centers on Emily Levine, a comedian and philosopher who died February 3, 2019, just as Popova’s book “Figuring” was being released. The piece features an audio recording of Levine reading “Cold Solace” by Anna Belle Kaufman - the last poem she read during what Popova describes as their final “poetry retreat” in January 2019.