Room’s Work Wins the Sigourney Award – 2025

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 17, 2025November 17, 2025 Arts, General, Literature, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Room’s Work Wins the Sigourney Award – 2025.
Click Here to Read: The current issue of Room, 10.25.
Click Here to Read: All past issues of Room.

And join Room’s Roundtable. Join ROOM 10.25 contributors as they explore their layered personal and professional realities and how they are responding to our current world.
Saturday, November 22, 2025
12 PM EDT
Live via Zoom
Read the featured contributors’ work here:
Dana Amir – “Looking into the Face of the Gorgon”
Patrick Cole – “We’ve Had a Problem”
Eiman Hussein – “The Unseen Scars: Navigating the Psychological Landscape of Sudan’s World”

This Massive Web—Home to More Than 100,000 Spiders—Found in a Cave in Europe

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 16, 2025November 16, 2025 General, Science

Click Here to Read: This Massive Web—Home to More Than 100,000 Spiders—Found in a Cave in Europe Could Be the World’s Largest./ The cavern along the border of Greece and Albania is home to a terrifyingly high number of two species of arachnids that live together peacefully in complete darkness by Sarah Kuta on the Smithsonian Magazine website on November 6, 2025.

The region of Chameria between Albania and Greece. Image: N.Hoxha. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

How Not to Interview a Female CEO

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 11, 2025November 11, 2025 General, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: How Not to Interview a Female CEO: Every Human Endeavor Has Its Own Central Pitfall to Be Avoided. So Avoid It by Jamey Hecht on his Jamey Hecht, Author Substack on November 11, 2025.

Betrayed by the Health Insurance Industry

By Tamar SchwartzOctober 29, 2025October 29, 2025 General

Click Here to Read: Betrayed by the Health Insurance Industry: How the Recent Health Insurance Crisis Stirs up Anxiety and Rage (Vol. 5; Issue 42) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD on his Journeys into the Unconscious Mind website on October 29, 2025.

Health Insurance Coverage of the Non-Elderly Population, 2011. Chart made from data collected by the Kaiser Family Foundation Image: Zozoalzuzu Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

What Counts as Learning When AI Can Imitate It?

By Tamar SchwartzMay 29, 2025May 29, 2025 General

Click Here to Read: What Counts as Learning When AI Can Imitate It? AI can mimic performance, but only humans learn through consequence and context by Jarek Janio Ph.D. on his How We Learn blog on the Psychoanalysis Today blogs on May 17, 2025.

21st century robots. Seen from the future, they will just look cute. Image: Ralf Steinberger from Milan, Berlin + Munich, Italy + Germany Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Cécile Evans’ performance ‘Sprung a Leak’, seen in Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany.

The Trump administration’s move to ban international students at Harvard escalates attacks on universities

By Tamar SchwartzMay 28, 2025May 28, 2025 General, Politics

Click Here to Read: The Trump administration’s move to ban international students at Harvard escalates attacks on universities by Petra Molnar on The Conversation website on May 26, 2025.

Image: G. Edward Johnson Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

She’s sowing the seeds of her father’s legacy by teaching her community to farm

By Tamar SchwartzMay 21, 2025May 21, 2025 General

Click Here to Read: She’s sowing the seeds of her father’s legacy by teaching her community to farm: Mel ‘n Nem Farms is tackling food insecurity among marginalized families by giving them hands-on access to agriculture and a chance to reconnect with the land by Sabreen Dawud on the 19th website on May 20, 2025.

Bowie, Maryland map enlarged. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.