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1 month ago | 
independentaustralia.net | Rosemary Sorensen |Yanis Varoufakis |Pankaj Mishra |Patricia Lockwood
Does the state of the world turn readers to “escapist” books, or does it just turn readers away from books? Rosemary Sorensen reports. DESPITE THE CLAIM that so-called escapist romance novels are booming because, apparently, women want to “be inspired and feel joy”, it might seem all too hard right now to pick up a book of fiction, and stay with settings, characters and plots that have absolutely nothing to do with what’s going on in the world.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
lrb.co.uk | Simon Critchley |Patricia Lockwood
Tell me your mystic and I will tell you who you are. The Little Flower, she of the astonishing self-love? Hildegard of Bingen, glowing like rock crystal, or Simone Weil, picking herself like a scab? Teresa of Avila, a chilly forehead and a warm thigh, or St Simeon, being written by the tip of his stylus? You may prefer Marguerite Porete, burning alive with her book, or the rich black intersection of St John of the Cross or the pyroclastic whisper of Anonymous, Unknown Author.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
psychologytoday.com | Patricia Lockwood |Jo Cutler
We tend to make better decisions when we're doing something for ourselves rather than for others. Theories of how animals collect food can provide insight into how humans make decisions. People with autistic traits may respond to rewards differently, being less optimal in choices for themselves. Does a Self-Bias Makes Us Better at Decision-Making? Humans have many biases that affect how we act.
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Nov 27, 2024 | psychologytoday.com | Patricia Lockwood |Jo Cutler
We tend to make better decisions when we're doing something for ourselves rather than for others. Theories of how animals collect food can provide insight into how humans make decisions. People with autistic traits may respond to rewards differently, being less optimal in choices for themselves. Does a Self-Bias Makes Us Better at Decision-Making? Humans have many biases that affect how we act.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Patricia Lockwood |Paul Beatty |Georgi Gospodinov |Angela Rodel
It should not be surprising to learn that many shortlisted and winning books across both the Booker and International Booker prizes are by authors who have also written poetry. After all, telling stories has long been a part of the poet’s role across cultures and traditions; while the prizes have always celebrated writers who use language in ways that allow us to see the world anew.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
ahmedabadmirror.com | Beryl Bainbridge |Patricia Lockwood |Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |Emma Donoghue
In exciting turns within literary affairs, this year’s Booker Prize shortlist made history with a list comprised entirely of women. For reference, the Booker Prize ratio of male to female winners stands at two male authors (36 wins) to one female author (18 wins). In fact, from 2002 to 2019, the Booker Prize was called the Man Booker Prize, a fact that echoes with irony today.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
psychologytoday.com | Patricia Lockwood |Jo Cutler
What morality is, where it comes from, and how it changes throughout our lives are fundamental questions for the experience of being human. We can think of morality as simply a set of values and norms that label different actions as good or bad (Crockett, 2013). A key debate is whether people are born with a moral compass that helps them to understand these norms or whether morality is learned and depends more on our experiences and environment.
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Aug 16, 2024 | psychologytoday.com | Patricia Lockwood |Jo Cutler
What morality is, where it comes from, and how it changes throughout our lives are fundamental questions for the experience of being human. We can think of morality as simply a set of values and norms that label different actions as good or bad (Crockett, 2013). A key debate is whether people are born with a moral compass that helps them to understand these norms or whether morality is learned and depends more on our experiences and environment.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Patricia Lockwood
Aa Aa Aa - A + What morality is, where it comes from, and how it changes throughout our lives are fundamental questions for the experience of being human. We can think of morality as simply a set of values and norms that label different actions as good or bad (Crockett, 2013). A key debate is whether people are born with a moral compass that helps them to understand these norms or whether morality is learned and depends more on our experiences and environment.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | A.S. Byatt |Patricia Lockwood |Ruth Ozeki |Ian McEwan
What defines the perfect summer read? Is it a novel that transports you to a far-flung location in the space of a few well-crafted sentences, or a book that turns up the heat with a riveting plotline? Perhaps it’s a sizzling story set poolside, or a page-turner that makes a long journey simply fly by. In compiling a list of ultimate summer reads, we turned to our readers.
