persevering through hardship Archives

It feels like we’re in an era of burnout. In the last decade, the world…

From Tolstoyan Russia to the Mongolian steppe and summers on the Gulf of Finland… here…

Change can be fast and slow. Lately it has felt like the world has changed…

How had I not read Cutting for Stone before? From Ethiopia to New York, Abraham…

How do I start talking about Educated by Tara Westover? I’ll try with this: I…

I tend to read more slowly now than when I was younger, usually taking a…

I don’t think anyone’s immune from the doldrums. The same goes for loneliness. Just recently,…

Despite experiencing unimaginable hardship during the Holocaust, Viktor Frankl describes in Man’s Search for Meaning how…

The End of Your Life Book Club Will Schwalbe’s The End of Your Life Book…

My favourite translation by Anthony Briggs and published by Penguin. A fortnight ago I submitted my…

As I was approaching London Charing Cross on the train last month, I saw a…

Gratitude in the movie adaptation of Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King. Image…

I’ve written before about how brilliant I think George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice…

“Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or…