I check my inbox at 11.30pm and read an email about returning to the office. Disquiet sets in…
After a year of longing for a return to “normality”, I find I don’t want it after all – at…
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It seems a bottomless pot of couscous may be a good way to test my sanity
Watching Ridley Scott’s The Martian, I feel a sudden affinity with Matt Damon eating his umpteenth meal of the same old same old.
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It’s finally getting easier to imagine returning to normal life. So why do I keep crying?
I fear the return will not be a simple reunion with my old joys, but a reckoning with all the joys…
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“Why can I not let go of the comforts of life?” Sam Byers on what personal liberation really looks like
The British novelist discusses why our fixation on “wellness” grows as the planet around us decays.
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Languages reflect the societies that use them – and English is riddled with sexism
Should dictionaries include sexist words and definitions?
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Why I’m no longer worried about family reading the sex scenes in my novel
I had visions of book burnings and scarlet letters, but then I remembered: parents are adults, too...
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While many learned to bake or sew in lockdown, I have revelled in the beauty of isolation itself
Enforced isolation has brought less familiar pleasures, such as finally getting my bookshelves in order.
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Fearing for the future of the music business, I’m haunted by the ghosts of gigs past
Glastonbury’s cancellation comes as another blow upon the painful bruise being felt by the whole music industry. Yet the magnitude…
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