THE THIRD AND purportedly final installment of Deborah Levy’s “living autobiography” opens at a flower stall in Shoreditch. Rather than selecting cut stems à la Clarissa Dalloway, Levy buys a banana…
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In the 20 years since David Allen promised us a “mind like water” in Getting Things Done, there is not a productivity hack I haven’t tried. I’ve task-batched, time-blocked, typed…
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In one of her most haunting poems, ‘The Loneliness One dare not sound’, EmilyDickinson likened the “horror” of loneliness to being buried alive. Today, neuroscientists believe the body’s stress response to…
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“Let’s complain,” suggests Lucy Ellmann in the preface to this new collection of essays, her first book of nonfiction. In lieu of a Table of Contents, a ‘Table of Discontents’ catalogues…
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If the wheel was invented over 5,000 years ago, why wasn’t it applied to luggage until the 1970s? asks Katrine Marçal in this thought-provoking book, seamlessly translated by Alex Fleming. A…
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As Covid-19 and its attendant fears spread during the spring of 2020, Britain was enveloped in a silence unprecedented since the Industrial Revolution, writes Steven Lovatt in this charming and thought-provoking…