The big idea: is couples therapy a waste of time? | Counselling and therapy

The big idea: is couples therapy a waste of time? | Counselling and therapy

Something interesting happens in the first few pages of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s recent memoir-cum-self-help book Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life. It opens on a moment of weakness, as he describes his lowest... Read more »
Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant’s Self-Portrait as Othello wins TS Eliot prize | Books

Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant’s Self-Portrait as Othello wins TS Eliot prize | Books

Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant has won this year’s TS Eliot prize for Self-Portrait As Othello, his collection exploring Black masculinity and immigrant identity. Allen-Paisant was announced as the winner of the £25,000... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Monday, January 15th

Daily Cartoon: Monday, January 15th

“Eventually, there will come a time when you will be constantly complaining about the heat.“ Source link Read more »
David Means on Writing Animals Truthfully

Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of …

As developing states adopt neoliberal policies, more and more working-class women find themselves pulled into the public sphere. They are pressed into wage work by a privatizing and unstable job market. Likewise,... Read more »
How We Break: Navigating the Wear and Tear of Living by Vincent Deary review – the ways in which we’re undone | Health, mind and body books

How We Break: Navigating the Wear and Tear of Living by Vincent Deary review – the ways in which we’re undone | Health, mind and body books

Vincent Deary is a clinical and academic specialist in fatigue, in the ways in which we might be mentally and physically spent by life. This book, part memoir of his working practice,... Read more »
Recovering the ‘Aryan worldview’: the Western Australian book publisher under scrutiny over far-right texts | Far right

Recovering the ‘Aryan worldview’: the Western Australian book publisher under scrutiny over far-right texts | Far right

At least one Australian-based online bookstore is reviewing works from a publisher that describes itself as the “the classics department of the dissident right”, including essay collections edited by an Australian white... Read more »
The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan review – rich Malaysian second world war saga | Fiction

The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan review – rich Malaysian second world war saga | Fiction

Set in Malaysia between 1935 and 1945, Vanessa Chan’s impressive and assured debut offers a little-told perspective on a turbulent period of history. Inspired by her own grandparents’ experiences under British colonial... Read more »
Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant’s Self-Portrait as Othello wins TS Eliot prize | Books

Russian poet and Kremlin critic Lev Rubinstein dies aged 76 | Russia

The Russian poet Lev Rubinstein, a leading figure in the Soviet underground literary scene who later protested against Vladimir Putin, has died days after being hit by a car, his daughter has... Read more »
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