A conversation with Michael Conforti Covid-19 has buckled the world. My country, South Africa, is the latest to bow down and lockdown. And as we all stumble around in the penumbra of this virus, things – longstanding things – are breaking. My concentration fragments. Never has the ground felt so loose beneath my feet. […]
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An Interview with John van der Steur I once attended a drawing class. It was a dismal event, as I struggled to draw the dappled pear that we had been given. But I was writing a novel about an artist, and I hoped that if I opted for full immersion for a couple of hours
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Conversation with Aaron Kipnis ‘What is it that makes psychopaths so compelling?’ I asked Dr Aaron Kipnis – psychotherapist, professor, and author of four books – during a recent conversation. I last spoke to Aaron Kipnis about the psychology of money – a fascinating conversation with a meticulous teacher, one who is able to
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As a little girl, when there was tension in the home, Tina Stromsted would slip out the house into the field next door, and dance. As she twirled and swooped and breathed in the rhythms of Nature, she was able to release her anxiety to the winds, and ground herself enough to straighten her small
