Existentialist Hannah Arendt famously coined the phrase “the banality of evil”. She used it to describe what she felt was the most extreme failures of
I’ve had cause to think about loneliness again lately. A journalist acquaintance brought it up over breakfast – she was surprised to read in first,
So my US publisher asked if I’d write a program that taught us all how to eat for anxiety, to accompany the launch of first,
Do you mind if I share this lovely note with you? Sarah L. reached out to me with the letter below. I get hundreds of
…we’re not all that bad to have around. And we might not have to turn ourselves completely inside out to become better people. We come
This is a quick little tip from first, we make the beast beautiful. I’ve found it to be one of the most popular and follows
In this post last week I follow up on an edited extract from first, we make the beast beautiful in which I outline all the contradictions inherent
I came across Henry Miller’s “11 Commandments of Writing” in a review of a book of his essays. The book was written around the time
This is an edited extract from my book first, we make the beast beautiful that picks up after an anxiety attack in the presence of
I ate at Gabrielle Hamilton’s Prune in New York about six years ago. I didn’t realise the story behind the woman. I do now and