You may think of Kafka; you may think of Ovid; you may think of Transformers, of cars turning into terrifying robots.
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Darker, longer, tougher, stronger
If this were a novel, the writer might have preferred an epiphany to occur right here; but in reality, it took some more time to realise how I had changed in the four seasons I had been away.
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Just words
The capacity to imagine has always been the driving force behind feminism; a radical, stubborn, luminous imagination which has allowed women, again and again, to move beyond the narrow confines of the possible.
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On male refractions
Recently I have begun to wonder to what extent we conceal a more mundane reality when we assign ideological narratives to these extremists: that of cowardice or an inability to confront male inadequacy.
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the fact of experiencing something or being affected by it because of being in a particular situation or place
Your private self is other: you don’t have the intellectual capacity to keep track of it all. Some days you give away more about yourself than you had intended to: you’re untidy, indecently exposed. Sometimes others seem to know more about you than you do.
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Editorial: hidden things
As the days are getting shorter, we investigate things that are tucked away in dark corners of the brain – or the national consciousness.
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