Most of us come upon our family’s dysfunctions gradually, like a door that opens a little wider each year. This uncle, you find out, has had an affair; grandma has a hoarding... Read more »
My earliest reading memoryI was taught to read quite early, at five or six, probably so that I would sit quietly and not be a nuisance to the adults. And it worked.... Read more »
Early on in her latest collection, the Canadian poet Karen Solie apologises: “I’m sorry, I can’t make this beautiful.” The line appears in a poem, Red Spring, about agribusiness and its sinister... Read more »
If there can be a downside to receiving a lifetime achievement award, it can surely only be the hint of closure it evokes. I put this as tactfully as I can to... Read more »
Daisy Edgar-Jones is set to lead a new big-screen adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. The actor, who broke out in the hit miniseries Normal People, will play Elinor in a... Read more »
In 2011, the psychologist (and Nobel laureate) Daniel Kahneman proposed that we humans are bimodal animals capable only of two modes of thought. One (which he called âSystem 1â) is fast, instinctive... Read more »