How I brought a Jewish wartime refugee’s lost fairytale back to life | Children and teenagers

How I brought a Jewish wartime refugee’s lost fairytale back to life | Children and teenagers

This story begins in a fever. It was the spring of 2021 and I’d contracted my first bout of Covid. Confined to bed, I turned to the pile of books that had... Read more »
‘They remind me there’s a life after cancer’: how paintings in NHS hospitals help patients feel better | Art

‘They remind me there’s a life after cancer’: how paintings in NHS hospitals help patients feel better | Art

Art, of course, brings pleasure. Now there is evidence that paintings can also help alleviate medical conditions, as well as boosting NHS staff. A new book produced by the charity Paintings in... Read more »
My Life With OCD – National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

My Life With OCD – National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

October 16, 2024 • Feature Story • 75th Anniversary This story is part of a special series featuring the experiences of people living with mental illnesses. The opinions of the interviewees are... Read more »
The Care Dilemma by David Goodhart review – a flawed study of family life | Society books

The Care Dilemma by David Goodhart review – a flawed study of family life | Society books

It was mostly in the small hours that I first read David Goodhart’s new book on caring. By coincidence, it arrived as I was trying to look after my dying father at... Read more »
Kingmaker by Sonia Purnell review – Pamela Churchill Harriman’s astonishing life of seduction and power | Biography books

Kingmaker by Sonia Purnell review – Pamela Churchill Harriman’s astonishing life of seduction and power | Biography books

As a youth she wasn’t popular among her peers. “Fat and freckly with red hair and mad about horses,” remembers Clarissa Churchill. “We used to bully her.” Nancy Mitford was no kinder:... Read more »
Kingmaker by Sonia Purnell review – Pamela Churchill Harriman’s astonishing life of seduction and power | Biography books

Elaine by Will Self review – an intense reimagining of the author’s mother’s life | Fiction

“Madame Bovary, c’est moi,” Flaubert said. What would Will Self say of his new novel? “Elaine, c’est moi”? “Madame Bovary, c’est ma mere”? Described in the blurb as “perhaps the first work... Read more »
The Weight of Everyday Digital Life …

The Weight of Everyday Digital Life …

The weight of constant digital connection is the default condition of working life, home life, and everyday personal life – driving us to engage more with platforms than with people, a new... Read more »
Technical Assistance Webinar: Suicide Prevention Across the Life Span in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Technical Assistance Webinar: Suicide Prevention Across the Life Span in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Date and Time August 1, 20249:30–10:30 a.m. ET Overview A technical assistance webinar will be held for prospective applicants of the following Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): Suicide Prevention Across the Life Span... Read more »
London literary life excludes northern writers, prize organisers say | Books

London literary life excludes northern writers, prize organisers say | Books

Northern writers still face a struggle to make it in the London-centric literary world, the organisers of a regional literary prize have said. Claire Malcolm, founder and chief executive of New Writing... Read more »
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