...for the literary references. And @cliodhnamurphyhair for seeing this and taking it @taktilberlin 5/5. www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/...

...season four. Read about them in Review, the weekend arts lift out in The Australian. Thank you Jeremy Graham for the idea , Caroline Overington for commissioning the story, Ella Berthoud for reading into it with me and Mike White #TheWhiteLotus ...4/5

“I think that's why we love fiction,” Berthoud says. If the characters in The White Lotus actually read the books they took on holiday, maybe they wouldn’t have found themselves in the predicaments they did. 4/9 White Lotus season three books complete while we wait for... 3/5

... freelance articles are commissioned, is in a crisis of confidence between jobs, feels validated with the love of a good woman, and is willing to just sail away without a plan. Do we always see ourselves in the novels we're reading? 2/5

Review jokes to Ella Berthoud about starting The White Lotus reading list with Knut Hamsun’s Hunger, the story of a struggling journalist; housing insecure, unsure how to make ends meet, in a European city, hallucinating from one meal to the next. He comes good when... 1/5

The Unmothered Three and a half years after she died, I now mark Mother’s Day on my private calendar of grief.

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“This doesn’t make any sense,” we finally said. She smiled and told us, “Sure it does. Don’t you see? I love you more and I love you more.” This was her sense of fairness: no kid wants to hear that she is loved the same as her sister. This Mother’s Day, three and a half years after she died,

Once, when I asked her whom she loved more, my sister or me, she answered, simply, “You.” Incredulous, my sister posed the same question. “Who do you love more, Ima? Ruth or me?” “You,” my mother said. We tried again. Each time, my mother invariably told whoever asked that she loved her more.

questioning. But mostly, I think, it showed her unyielding belief in fairness, which, years later, I would hear her define as justice played out in the private sphere. (She was a philosophy professor, preoccupied with definitions.) It was a particular kind of fairness, one that centered on a child’s

her for asking that question, forever ruining the show for me. But I shouldn’t have been surprised. It summed up, I now realize, her parenting philosophy. The way she didn’t baby us, but treated us like thoughtful people, capable of empathy. The way she was always fully there—registering,

article I reread every year: “Tell your mother to turn up the volume!” Once, as my twin sister and I were settling down on the sofa to watch, my mother overheard this opening bit. “And what about those who don’t have a mother?” she asked. I must have been seven or eight at the time. I was irritated

dishes that give me flashbacks. Nella, my father’s practice manager, always up for a coffee and heart-to-heart. Maryla, his housekeeper who waters my plants and would bring my dog bones. Happy Mother’s Day. Thank you. I love you… To anyone who is unmothered I recommend @ruthmargalit.bsky.social 's

Being unmothered is hard to say today. But other women help my heart ache a little less. To Wiesia, my mama who gave me life. Basia, my godmother who started our collection of cups from around the world. Benia, my stepmother, a constant through the ups and downs. Dana, my aunt who teaches me to cook

W trzecim i ostatnim odcinku Poles Apart, wróć na początek… ale czy to naprawdę tam wszystko się zaczęło? Wywiady z ludźmi, którzy zaczynają od nowa – raz za razem. Link w bio, słuchaj tam, gdzie zwykle słuchasz podcastów

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In the third and final episode of Poles Apart, go back to the start… but did it really begin there? Interviews with people who begin again, and again… link in bio, listen where you get your podcasts
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A dla osób mało obeznanych z polskimi realiami, przy tym mówiących z obcym akcentem, może to być bardzo frustrujące doświadczenie.

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Natasha Cousins Sion Cousins Express. The Australian-Polish Magazine

W Australii i wielu krajach, gdzie administracja działa sprawnie, w zasadzie ufa się urzędnikom i wierzy w udzielane przez nich informacje. W Polsce jest już dużo lepiej, niż było kiedyś, ale do sprawnego działania administracji jeszcze wiele brakuje, głównie ludzkiej życzliwości.

Świat bez granic: cyfrowi nomadzi między Sydney a Warszawą | Express. The Australian-Polish Magazine Polsko-australijskie małżeństwo, Natasza i Sion postanowili odmienić swoje życie i w roku 2024 państwo Cousins  przeprowadzili się na stałe do Europy. Decyzję o osiedlenia się na starym kontynencie uł...

In Australia, or other Western countries where the system works smoothly, you trust the process. But in countries where the system still doesn't work well for the uninitiated, you can't trust the system. Not knowing how to navigate the process is an unwritten test you have to pass.

Parasocial relationships form through podcasting, listeners feel like they know the host, but it’s one way. Like with music it becomes communal at a concert.

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Has he confided to someone in person? Review asks. Three people. His close circle knows about his alter ego. “Do I want to have this conversation with them? If they hear it and they want to chat about it, that's fine,” he says.