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“I wouldn’t have made it this far in life without my friends”: Jennifer Garner & Gemma Chan on female friendships, regrets and The Five Star Weekend

Jennifer Garner and Gemma Chan open up about their regrets, the importance of female friendship and why they wanted to work together on The Five Star Weekend.

The most profound warning in The Odyssey is to beware of violent men’s ‘disguises’

How Circe stole the show from Odysseus with one line

Harlan Coben on writer’s block, working with Reese Witherspoon and his new series, Lazarus

It’s not very often you get to interview one of your favourite authors.

Materialists is anything but broke man propaganda

It's a cautionary tale about mistaking vanity metrics for love

How my failures inspired my New Year's resolutions

failure or first go? you decide...

If we're all feeling behind, then who is ahead?

Feel like you're lagging behind your pals? You're not alone, but life doesn't end at 30.

35 digital dating stories that will revive your faith in finding love online

We're rewriting the script: dating apps do lead to long-term love sometimes. Maybe don't write them off just yet...

Burnout, a Book Submission and Brunch with Amy Poehler

Let's have a little catch up, shall we?

Is your work not good enough? Or is that just a good excuse not to finish it?

Hello perfectionism, my old friend. Isn't it time to change the record?

Grief's remarkable power to provide clarity and express itself in creativity

How loss cuts through perfectionism and connects us with the things that make us feel truly alive again