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I’m not sure who decided women want it all. And even if some do, who has decided what ‘all’ is?

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Both women shared a mutated gene and died from the same disease in their 40s, but Kevin wanted to change the way death and grief were experienced by his family.

Other lives: Writer and teacher who produced literary anthologies for various publishers

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Poet and writer whose protagonists are often women comically uncomfortable inside outdated traditions of femininity

As an undergraduate, on a tour of Europe, I happened to step into the church where Saint Valentine’s head was kept. The tour guide told us a (likely fictitious) story about Saint Valentine performing forbidden marriages for persecuted Christians under the Roman emperor Claudius Gothicus (possibly 269-270 AD). Valentine was…

We usually run the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list on Fridays but replaced it with a review of Birnam Wood

We couldn't find any negative review of physicist Steven Koonin's Unsettled that disputed its claims directly or even described them accurately.