The trees and rivers that talk of writing
From Virginia Woolf and John Berger to Mohandas Gandhi and Shiva Naipaul, Amitava Kumar tells us that great literature comes ...
Christian Today2d
The message of hope in the book of Lamentations
We can find hope by looking at what at first sight may seem a very unlikely source, the Old Testament book of Lamentations.
Hope is at the heart of "healthy mourning": Finding positivity while grieving Donald Trump's return
Donald Trump is now the 47 th President of the United States. Per his own words and policies, he will rule as a dictator on ...
Daily Maverick on MSN1d
Poetry as antidote: A journey through grief, love and the transformative power of language
At a time of growing anxiety, uncertainty and violence a revival and reassertion of one of humankind’s oldest forms of ...
Death shaded the life of this Holocaust historian. The cancer memoir he began in hospital was a final ‘act of love’
How does one write the essence of a life once it has come to an end?Mark Raphael Baker’s A Season of Death is an intimate, at ...
El País in English2d
Bambi’s mother dies again: Why the scene continues to traumatize the world
The French release of a new adaptation of Felix Salten’s classic, revisits the shock of that moment, which has served as a ...
Widow goes on life-changing trip after husband and mum tragically die
A woman who lost her husband of 44 years, after an eight year battle with cancer and her mum just months earlier, used her ...
The Nation on MSN6d
Fady Joudah’s Poetry of Dislocation
In his new book of poetry, […], the poet, translator, and ER doctor explores Palestinians’ experiences of exile and displacement—and the difficulty of healing amid the ongoing Nakba.
Readers and writers: Books to reflect on and celebrate aging
As our population ages, writers are offering books that look at what aging means and ways to live full lives even with the ...
Clearing my father’s house after his death: ‘How do you dismantle the life of a person you love?’
Going through possessions left behind is heartbreaking — and bewildering. What is precious? What is rubbish? And when the ...