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Bullies imagine injury in order to inflict it

Trans people are portrayed as threatening by those who want someone to beat up,

Chicago Sun-Times

Friday essay: a lament for the lost art of letter-writing – a radical art form reflecting 'the full catastrophe of life'

Letters did not count [as writing]. A woman might write letters while sitting by her father’s sick-bed. She could write them by the fire while the men talked without disturbing them. The strange thing is, I thought, turning over the pages of Dorothy’s letters, what a gift that untaught and…

The Conversation

National Theatre’s Phaedra review: suicide tragedy leaves a bad taste

Suicide is an act so shocking and violent that it undoes not only sensation, memory and feeling, but meaning. Poet and novelist Ocean Vuong describes how it unpicks even the connective tissue of language.

The Conversation

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John Malkovich on best friend Julian Sands: ‘Jules was such a storyteller, and so, so funny’

The actor reflects on the pair’s new film together, Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes, as ‘a pretty fitting tribute’ and shares memories of the ‘boy who grew up wild on the moors’

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak stifles a grin and gets serious after Liz Truss goes down fighting

Mostly, Librium Liz wanted to pay tribute to herself. Her successor spoke like a banker

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak's 'do-over' lets Tories pretend the last couple of months never happened

Her rollercoaster premiership having been brought to a juddering halt, Liz Truss strode out of Downing Street with a facial expression that screamed "I left a dead fish behind one of the radiators, but you'll never know which one."

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak appointed Prime Minister as Liz Truss quits after just 49 days in office

The former won the latest Tory leadership contest on Monday without a vote being cast after his rivals Penny Mordaunt and Boris Johnson dropped out.

Daily Record

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How Bob Dylan used the ancient practice of 'imitatio' to craft some of the most original songs of his time

Over the course of six decades, Bob Dylan steadily brought together popular music and poetic excellence. Yet the guardians of literary culture have only rarely accepted Dylan’s legitimacy.

The Conversation

‘Inject that Stoicism into my veins!’: 10 tools of ancient philosophy that improved my life

Brigid Delaney has been immersed in Stoicism since 2018 – and has had plenty of cause to use it since. Here’s a cheat sheet of what she learned

The Guardian - AU

How Stoicism influenced Pink Floyd

Stoicism can easily be misread as pessimistic, but its core message is profoundly empowering

Salon

How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd

Have you ever turned to music when struggling with a difficult emotion, like sadness, anxiety or anger?

The Conversation

Opinion | Make a habit of caring — a pandemic reflection

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken away so much, but it also rekindled human connections

The Hindu

We cling to our memory of the perfect summer – before flood, fire and plague. But the past is gone and we have to wake up

Signs of collapse are everywhere, and if we think it’s possible to return to ‘normal’, then we are deluded

The Guardian - AU

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