Memories and the value of narrative truth

Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality

Memories are the defining feature of human identity. They underlie the decisions that help determine our future, they colour our reflections on the…

The pleasure of a blue sky moment

Rising above the din of existence to see more clearly

The power of words in an age of anxiety

“The magic of escapist fiction is that it can actually offer you a genuine escape from a…

Bringing depression out of the shadows

“Be kind, for everyone you know is fighting a hard battle.” — Plato

What is happiness? The answers are all in the Mind

“I think you might do something better with the…

Humans: A 21st Century Existential Crisis

What can we learn from Channel 4's latest sci-fri thriller about the depths of our humanity?

To have or to be? That is the question

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.” Sylvia Plath

Can money ever buy you happiness? It may not be a question that we explicitly contemplate, but it’s the subtext…

Women & writing: Celebrating the greats

“It’s not so easy writing about nothing.”

So starts Patti Smith’s glorious homage to the temperamental nature of the creative life. M Train is one of those books that not only lives up to the unanimous…

Never mind asking how we ought to live, it’s now about how we survive: Urgent lessons from science via Lovelock

Hope is…

a well-meaning wish or wishful thinking?