Carol Tavris considers new approaches to the old problem of old age (and the newer problem of old old age); as secularism wanes on the global scale, Rupert Shortt considers whether religion does more harm than good
Books
Bolder: Making the most of our longer lives by Carl Honoré
Borrowed Time: The science of how and why we age by Sue Armstrong
Retirement and Its Discontents: Why we won’t stop working, even if we can by Michelle Pannor Silver
Women Rowing North: Navigating life’s currents and flourishing as we age by Mary Pipher
On the Brink of Everything: Grace, gravity and getting old by Parker J. Palmer
This Chair Rocks: A manifesto against ageism by Ashton Applewhite
Does Religion do More Harm than Good? by Rupert Shortt
Ian McEwan – an interview
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Whitechapel and Weimar
A deep history of Europe
Dave Eggers: The violations start with us
O, the Edward Gorey of it all
A nose is a nose is a nose…
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Zadie Smith, in conversation
Half glitzy, half dowdy
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: the inaugural Gabriel García Márquez lecture
Narratives of sexual assault
How Macron went wrong
‘American Standard’, a new poem by Paul Muldoon
Everything points north
Reddit's new religions
Egos and experiments
Finer points of murder
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