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Sober Christmas is more fun. I’ve got back some of the magical vibes

On Friday, many of us will pore over the sales and deals from all the biggest high street chains. But some of us will also fall prey to an industry exploiting our tendency to spend our way out of depression or make impulse purchases we’ll quickly come to regret, writes…

The number of abusers calling a helpline over their actions has surged. But are they really willing to change? Maya Oppenheim listens in to find out

Gretchen Shirm’s The Crying Room and Briohny Doyle’s Why We Are Here share a preoccupation with death and grief and what it means to live on, without intimate others, during a climate crisis. Both novels feature protagonists who lose parents and partners, and both explore their themes via writer-narrators who…