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How not to win the Melbourne Cup
Society
In sentimental movies about horseracing, such as National Velvet and Seabiscuit, there is a recurring theme. A rough diamond with potential slowly becomes a champion, transforming the lives of all those associated with it. The ending …
Ebony
Society
The girl in the room
Gendercide
Society
A decade ago I wrote a newspaper article about Sarah Blaffer Hrdy’s controversial book Mother Nature: Natural Selection and the Female of the Species. Halfway through I came across a photo that has haunted me ever since. A Pakistani mother …
Only connect
Society
Loneliness in the age of freedom
Love me tender?
essay
Sex & power in the age of pornography
What about me?
essay
The new narcissism
‘Family Wanted: Adoption Stories’ edited by Sara Holloway
arts
Happenstance, Daniel Menaker calls it, the utterly contingent nature of our lives. Family Wanted is an anthology of essays by some very fine writers about lives shaped by adoption. It confronts us with the brute fact that one’s existence can hang by …
