I’ve been fascinated by our cultural habit of self-criticism for as long as I have been in practice. This book attempts to capture the familiar themes of self-criticism, as well…

I wrote a review of this book here.

Over thirty-six compact chapters, Smith reiterates, with relentless zeal, that humans are, in essence, phenomenal beings – a fact that is, apparently, not often appreciated. More here.

Once the “weird” child both at school and at home, Marianne Eloise has lived in an embattled emotional state for as long as she can remember, with repeated episodes of…

I reviewed this in full for the TLS here.

I reviewed this memoir here.