The Guardian

Anne Lamott on love, sobriety and reaching 70: ‘All I’ve learned, I’ve learned because the abyss swallowed me’: The American author’s 20th book reads as a series of parables on grace. In an interview, she reflects on a life she thought she wouldn’t get to live

Celebrated poet, MacArthur genius – but Hanif Abdurraqib is just glad to have survived past 25: The author’s new book uses basketball as a lens. In an interview, he reflects on grief, discipline and his love for Ohio

Thanks to this man, MDMA could soon be legal for therapy: Rick Doblin is a psychedelic pioneer – and he thinks it can help us save the world, one trauma-ending trip at a time

US surgeon general Vivek Murthy: ‘Loneliness is like hunger, a signal we’re lacking something for survival’: As the 19th and 21st surgeon general, Dr Vivek Murthy has described loneliness as an epidemic on par with tobacco use – the antidote, he says, is human connection

A discussion with Naomi Klein on wellness culture: ‘We really are alive on the knife’s edge’: The author examines how some chiropractors, health coaches and fitness fanatics came to embrace far-right theories

‘We’re sedating women with self-care’: how we became obsessed with wellness

Here and There

The woman who lives 200,000 years in the past: As we confront the reality of COVID-19, the idea of living self-sufficiently in the woods, far from crowds and grocery stores, doesn't sound so bad. Lynx Vilden has been doing just that for decades, while teaching others how to live primitively, too. Outside

We are multitudes: Women are chimeras, with genetic material from both their parents and children. Where does that leave individual identity? Aeon

The libido crash: Female sex drive has plummeted in our stressed-out world, but can we fix an epidemic of lost desire with drugs? Aeon

The quest for lust: Female desire is one of the most mysterious facets of human behavior—and its absence is women's most common sexual complaint. Can science figure out how to ignite it? Psychology Today

The prepper’s guide to love: Coupling up for the collapse. The Baffler

Can we bring back the wilderness? Katherine Rowland surveys the brave new world of restoration ecology: the art of breathing new life into dying lands. Green Futures/The Guardian

Incomplete Guernica Archive

Where disease stopped and my brother began: Coming to terms with a sibling’s suicide. Guernica

Everything just disappeared: In Gavdos there is a sort of collective protest against the past. Against all evidence of time beyond the beach. Guernica

The honey trap: The training camp where Stasi once learned to catch secrets with sex is now a free-love commune. But even free love isn’t easy. Meet a radical community’s jealous lovers. Guernica

Whole earth mental health: The evolving field of ecopsychology aims to cure what ails us by bridging the human-nature rift. Guernica

Gary Greenberg: It’s All in Your Head: People come to think of their unhappiness as a disease, rather than the result of a traumatic world. Guernica

Claire Messud: Interior Lives: The award-winning novelist on the fluidity of sexuality, the intersections of art and selfishness, and her most recent book, The Woman Upstairs. Guernica

George Packer: Freedom’s Ill Fortunes: The journalist on the decadence of Washington, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley; institutional decay; and the widening gulf between rich and poor in America. Guernica

David Finkel: The Afterwar: The Pulitzer Prize winner discusses PTSD, returning home from the front lines, and America's "haphazard system" of veteran care. Guernica

Daniel Bergner on The Science of Sex: The journalist on researching lust, the myth of female monogamy, and why “voyeurism is essential to good writing.” Guernica

Paul Chappell: Waging Peace: The West Point grad turned anti-violence advocate on the havoc of trauma, the false security of war, and training peace activists to be more like soldiers. Guernica