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Generation boomerang: children who go back to mum and dad

‘They’re ridiculously supportive,’ says Gareth Johnson, with parents Carl and Eunice, and nephew Seth. Photograph: Lucy Levene After my sons graduated and left home, my husband and I adjusted. It…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 24, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2269 words)

Why is India so bad for women?

Video of a woman being attacked in Guwahati, Assam, has sparked outrage in India. In an ashram perched high on a hill above the noisy city of Guwahati in north-east India is a small exhibit…
AUTHOR:Helen Pidd
PUBLISHED: July 23, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2656 words)

Doris Lessing's Golden Notebook, 50 years on

Diana AthillOf course I read The Golden Notebook as soon as it came out. Everyone did. But I took against it. I and most of my friends, who were more or less the same age as Doris Lessing, felt, as…
PUBLISHED: April 6, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3591 words)

the man who stood witness for the world

One evening – we are not given a date, but it must be the early 1960s – the great French philosopher, essayist, novelist and pioneer of feminism Simone de Beauvoir was, as so often, at…
PUBLISHED: March 4, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4084 words)
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