My piece this week about the wonderful Alice Neel and her mesmerising portraits. Her paintings of people —at their most beautiful and hideous—are remarkable studies in human connection. See her work @CentrePompidou now or the @BarbicanCentre next year
https://t.co/cva69tPRap
My piece for @TheEconomist on a topic dear to my sleep-deprived heart — the rise of the flat white & how Australia got so good at making coffee:
https://t.co/fmkrnvkRww from @TheEconomist
Could your marriage survive a shipwreck?
My review for @TheEconomist of “Maurice and Maralyn”, @SophieElmhirst’s gorgeous and gripping book about a couple who were stranded almost four months at sea
https://t.co/2dyw21ZF2G
An amazing opportunity: We are hiring a China correspondent. You get to work with an incredible team of China journalists, and to report and write with seriousness and depth on one of the world’s most important stories https://t.co/tXa4cyy3oB
Murder on the TV, agony on the radio....When the real world feels like a charnel house, why spend an evening & a chunk of cash watching bodies pile up on stage?
My Back Story column in @TheEconomist is on King Lear & the point of tragedy in bleak times
https://t.co/pzHUHRRBxF
My piece on Ron Mueck's sculptures (now on show in Paris @Fond_Cartier)—& why hyperreal art is loved and loathed in equal measure: https://t.co/sDijyiU6WD
Mint, wax, poisonous plants: beauty tips from Renaissance Italy — I wrote about “How to be a Renaissance Woman”, Professor Jill Burke’s lively new history of beauty culture in the 16th and 17th century
https://t.co/EPA0DUQJKS
This week I wrote about “Nothing Special”, Nicole Flattery’s darkly delightful new book about a young woman working for Andy Warhol as a typist—and much much more… https://t.co/p2g5Bfu088
I haven’t listened to a podcast this gripping for a while. @serial’s “The Retrievals” explores how an American fertility clinic ignored women’s pain. It is an astounding story of motherhood, betrayal and loss, as I write in @TheEconomist https://t.co/25g6AFWKZs
To kill a kingpin: my Back Story column in @TheEconomist this week is on the role of early deaths in storytelling and is full of spoilers
https://t.co/qZQGcR5iZx
“Publishers used to ask for the next Haruki Murakami. Now they ask: What’s going to be the next ‘Convenience Store Woman’?” says David Boyd. I wrote about the rise of Japanese women's literature in translation✍️✨ https://t.co/ZoQALJ6clB
An adaptation of "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" landed in American cinemas this week. If you want to read my thoughts on how Judy Blume's books for teens have been simultaneously celebrated and censored, sign up for tomorrow's Plot Twist here: https://t.co/RpsZm3Z6xd
Decades before Michelangelo carved his 5-metre-tall-nude David, Donatello had cast a bronze statue of the same biblical hero—the first free-standing male nude since antiquity. I wrote about how the sculptor shaped the Renaissance: https://t.co/BD3piORjC4 https://t.co/BD3piORjC4
A wave of new films and TV shows feature psychotherapists. Not all real-world therapists are happy about it, as @imogenmargaret explains on “The Intelligence” https://t.co/KObeJWyn8C
From "Couples Therapy" to "Stutz" and "Shrinking" to "The Patient" - psychotherapy crops up frequently on our screens. What do shrinks think? My piece:
https://t.co/MazOeyMXDP
Wow. This quote from Jacinda Ardern’s resignation: ‘Hope I leave New Zealanders with a belief that you can be kind but strong, empathetic but decisive, optimistic but focused...that you can be your own kind of leader, one who knows when it’s time to go’..
For this week’s @TheEconomist , I am taking on menstrual products. Thousands of women from Kenya to South Korea have complained about worrying side effects, from burning sensations to disrupted cycles
https://t.co/HfTzfkmUH1