The Talking Cure

Posted on October 5, 2015 in THR Web Features
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Sherry Turkle believes that our “capacity for solitude” is undercut by picking up the phone and checking our email.
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Nature Writing Gets Personal

Posted on September 23, 2015 in THR Web Features
Image: Cover detail from H Is for Hawk, the 2014 memoir by Helen Macdonald.

After situating themselves in a “wild” context, both women do what the entire history of nature writing has implicitly instructed them not to do: they bring their emotional backpacks into the landscape.

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