What I learned about the real Sam Neill while writing his TV series and book about Captain Cook, and why the world is poorer without him [Originally published on Substack: Human Matters by Meaghan.] Hearing the news that Sam Neill was gone hit me harder than I thought it might. I don’t want to talk …
From the Gutenberg press to TikTok, a historian’s take on declining literacy, shrinking attention spans, and what we stand to lose In the latest Atlantic, Rose Horowitch has called it. She’s just declared that “The Age of Reading Is Over.” Well, that’s a little fucking depressing. I wish I could say that it was the …
In “How I Found My Muse on a Greek Island,” M. Wilson Anastasios reflects on her search for creativity during a transformative vacation in Symi, Greece. Struggling with menopause and self-image, she finds inspiration through a moving encounter with an older woman, ultimately rekindling her creative voice and embracing her identity beyond societal expectations.
From ancient myths to modern TV, the “monstrous mother” keeps showing up; it says more about our expectations of women than it does about motherhood. Ever feel like you’re not measuring up as a mum? Yeah, I feel you. No Mother’s Day breakfast would be complete without a steaming hot plate of guilt served up …
How the Marrakech Medina broke me and the creative midlife reckoning that followed. The hormonal rollercoaster of being a woman of a certain age comes with the erosion of the foundations of who you think you are as a person. I was completely unprepared for that. How is that possible? How many utterly cringeworthy videos …
Our grandmothers had survival skills. We have subscriptions. In the West, we’ve been played. And that bothers me. My answer? Grow tomatoes.
Why the West Is Terrified of Death
An Archaeologist’s Reckoning with Science, Faith and the Inevitable.
My dad was a surgeon. His favourite saying? “Life is a sexually transmitted, inevitably fatal, disease.”
This is about confronting the inevitable.
The end of all…. **this**
Why the Heritage Foundation’s new family plan should terrify you this Valentine’s Day Valentine’s Day. Love it or hate it. It’s almost upon us. Colliding as it does with a moment in time when the ghastly truth about a global enterprise in the rape, exploitation and disposal of girls and young women seeps out from …
It was a top-secret intelligence report written in 1943. But it could have been written today. It’s fucking inevitable. As a day of reckoning looms on the horizon, the ship will spring a leak or twenty. That’s because rats aren’t renowned for hanging around and going down with all hands-on-deck. They start to look around …