The literature of dementia is not large. There are nonfictional exceptions, such as Annie Ernaux’s wrenching account of her mother’s descent into Alzheimer’s, I Remain in Darkness, Wendy Mitchell’s ...
Eva Baltasar’s Mammoth is about survival. The Catalan writer’s tight, intense novel relishes the contradictions lying beneath that instinct – how what we hunger for might not sustain us. Mammoth is ...
As the school year begins, teachers across the country are considering whether they can manage the unpaid overtime, stress with parents and struggle with under-resourced classrooms.