‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?

The writer’s previously unpublished notes from her sessions with a psychiatrist offer an incredibly intimate insight into her relationship with her daughter, depression and creativityLast month, the New York Public Library opened the doors on one of it...

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Carrot-shaped lights, bunny wreaths and beauty boxes – forget Easter, welcome to ‘Eastermas’ | Amelia Tait

Social media is turning the spring festival into yet another opportunity for lavish spending. What’s in your #EasterBasket? As a child, I was keenly aware of the inequitable practices of the tooth fairy, Santa Claus and the so-called Easter Bunny. How ...

Continue ReadingCarrot-shaped lights, bunny wreaths and beauty boxes – forget Easter, welcome to ‘Eastermas’ | Amelia Tait

Carrot-shaped lights, bunny wreaths and beauty boxes – forget Easter, welcome to ‘Eastermas’ | Amelia Tait

Social media is turning the spring festival into yet another opportunity for lavish spending. What’s in your #EasterBasket? As a child, I was keenly aware of the inequitable practices of the tooth fairy, Santa Claus and the so-called Easter Bunny. How ...

Continue ReadingCarrot-shaped lights, bunny wreaths and beauty boxes – forget Easter, welcome to ‘Eastermas’ | Amelia Tait

Trump has found in El Salvador a model for the repressive state he wants to build – and he’s just getting started | Jordana Timerman

Nayib Bukele has shown how brutal control can be sustained not just through force, but by raising the cost of speaking outThe Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) maximum security prison in El Salvador is the crown jewel of President Nayib Bukele’s eff...

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