I’m not against HRT but are we once again medicating women for being angry?
It is horribly regressive to say that all women lose their minds in midlife. Did you know that men have hormones too?
A collection of articles by Sarah Moss
It is horribly regressive to say that all women lose their minds in midlife. Did you know that men have hormones too?
The desire to be worthy, or the fear of not being worthy enough, is explored in this moving memoir
It’s interesting to think about the difference between ‘letting go’ and ‘letting yourself go’
Fennel, yellow and yoga: Liking food or colours or activities I once disliked reminds me that preferences aren’t fixed
Time continues to pass, the world of next time is not the same as the world of last time for anything we do
Part of the work of art is to allow us glimpse worlds we don’t inhabit, or see worlds we inhabit through others’ eyes
It was a surprise to find other people had such different experiences of being conscious
We have accepted the baseline that what we all deserve is highly processed food
It suggests that humans live on different planets, determined by economic conditions, which lets us off many hooks we would have to discuss if we accepted that all global resources are inequitably shared
On a burning planet with limited resources, we need more international understanding, more curiosity about other lives in other places
There is a time to count and a time to be counted; the work is to know when that time comes
Counting time and distance when I run would quickly turn joy to punishment
It’s mostly comfortable for me to be away from my phone because I don’t use social media, which means that probably not much has changed since I last looked
The danger is in the interaction of drivers and cyclists, almost exclusively to the disadvantage and sometimes to the death of the cyclist
Letting contradictions sit with you makes life more interesting, opens up the world a bit more
Sarah Moss: I know several men whose terror is just as deep and abject as my own but they lost their permission to be scared when they started primary school
Sarah Moss: Naturally I have views, mostly of the sort you’d probably expect from a bike-riding vegetarian feminist academic, but I’m certain about very few of them
I wouldn’t have the time, people say, usually while they sit beside me with hands at rest or on their phones
Book review: Will Burns’s novel highlights inequalities and issues of modern society
Authors and critics choose the books that have moved and impressed them this year
I remembered why we were leaving England every time I read the news, every time the nation stood on doorsteps and clapped
Book review: Hanne Ørstavik brings us remarkably close to her characters in such a short time
Author’s novel Ghost Wall attempts to skewer English penchant for nostalgic writing
Dark arts and a dark patriarchy in 17th-century Lancashire from Stacey Halls
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices