Could “microdoses“ of LSD be used to help depression?
In A Really Good Day, Ayelet Waldman tells her story of self-medicating with LSD.
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Unlucky Franz: Ian Thomson on Kafka’s life of unholy tedium
The strange creatures of Kafka’s posthumous collection The Burrow.
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Twilight zone: Fiona Sampson on John Burnside’s double life
John Burnside as a poet and novelist.
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Metal guru: Simon Winchester on Julian Glover’s Man of Iron
Simon Winchester on Julian Glover’s Man of Iron – a biography of the great engineer Thomas Telford.
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Off the Record: how old books help us deal with new – and frightening – times
The best course of action in these times? Read old books for all the answers.
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Goddess of the underworld: Michelle Tea’s Black Wave
Sarah Ditum enjoys Michelle Tea’s latest anarchic autofiction, Black Wave.
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Shipwrecked: looking for God in The Ancient Mariner
Malcolm Guite’s religious portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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Julie Burchill: female desire from maenads to One Direction fans
Desire makes us feel fully alive, when even love can’t reach those unsafe spaces that make life worth living.
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