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Essay:
The Mother’s Rage: Elena Ferrante and the Torment of Maternal Love
For many years, it seemed as though every colleague, student, or friend was urging me to read Elena Ferrante.
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The Politics of Anger: Putin and the Psychology of Rage
It’s just gone 7 a.m.in my consulting room. I’m staring into the thin powder blue of the early March sky as the day’s first patient readies himself on the couch. I look over, notice the taut knotting of his brow, the tight squeeze of his lowered eyelids, and feel the air between us thicken.
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Josh Cohen in Conversation with Akshi Singh
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Losers: Josh Cohen in Conversation with Adam Phillips
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The perfectionism trap
As a young university lecturer two decades ago, I taught a course on 19th-century American literature. Though I loved the period, my students were less enamoured.
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The incurious rabbit
Years ago, for a few wintry months before he lost his head to a fox, I was lumbered with the daily care of a rabbit named Rr.
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