Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell audiobook review – the life and loss of the woman behind the Bard

Click Here to Read: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell audiobook review – the life and loss of the woman behind the Bard: The wife of William Shakespeare takes centre stage in a rich, sensitive examination of parental grief, sensitively narrated by Jessie Buckley by Fiona Sturges on the Guardian website on December 25, 2025.

Jessie Buckley at the premiere of Hamnet at the Toronto International Film Festival. Image: Jay Dixit.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very

Click Here to Read: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very: From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history by Robin Buller on the Gaurdian website on December 25, 2025. 

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Joachim Prinz. Photographer: Unknown. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

 

“Psychoanalysis & You” Episode with Dr. Amy Levy

Click Here to View: The Last “Psychoanalysis & You” Episode of 2025.

A new episode of “Psychoanalysis and You,” the official podcast of the American Psychoanalytic Association, is now available. In this episode, host Dr. Gail Saltz speaks with Dr. Amy Levy, clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and co-chair of APsA’s President’s Commission on Artificial Continue reading “Psychoanalysis & You” Episode with Dr. Amy Levy

The Sickness of the New American Serfdom

Click Here to Read: The Sickness of the New American Serfdom: Tightening Shackles on Freedom Will Distress Even More Americans (Vol. 5; Issue 50) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD on his Journeys into the Unconscious Mind Substack on December 24, 2025.

Sadness, Depression and Loneliness in a Crowd. Image: Graehawk of Nanaimo/Canadan  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Kiran Desai on the gift of loneliness

Click Here to View: VERBATIM: Kiran Desai on the gift of loneliness: The author of “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” on the curse and blessing of being alone, her 20-year road to making a masterpiece, and how her Indian uncles tell her to use ChatGPT on her writing by Anand Giridharadas, Kiran Desai, and Leigh Haber on the Ink Substack on December 24, 2025.

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