Halfway through my ARC of The Secret Place, and I absolutely love it. I desperately want to know whodunit, but I'm enjoying the story so much and the pace is so spot-on that I'm not even tempted to skip to the final pages and spoil everything for myself. French can like, totally write teenage girls? Like, ohmygod,…

The timing of this link is perfect for me. My relationship with my boyfriend is currently considerably less than stellar, uncomfortably due in part to some of the details laid described in the column, but fucking hell if advice from Andrew W.K. of all people hasn't made me feel much more capable of possibly speaking…

This story was covered earlier in the week on the comedy/news programme The Last Leg (with Australian comic Adam Hills). I really wasn’t expecting it, so when the subject came up I began to feel a little uneasy, worried that it may not be dealt with appropriately and even that it would become subject to ridicule, but…

SPIDER OVARIES.

Thank you, that's a really comprehensive answer and I appreciate the time you took to write it all out for me! Most of my knowledge of US healthcare comes from online news sources, which sometimes operate on the basis of "99% of all Americas have no form of medical insurance!!!!1"/"Medicaid is a sin and a socialist…

I’ve just – rather ineloquently – posed my main question to another commenter above, which is simply how are people still choosing to have babies in the US, with the knowledge that they’ll be hit with such a massive medical bill at the end of it all? My understanding is that a large number of people in the US don’t…

This is pretty much blowing my mind, and if I'm getting upset by the stories such as yours that people are coming out with, I can't imagine how it feels to be directly affected by it so frequently.

It feels like such a silly question really and I'm not sure how to word it, but how can so many women and couples go through with having a baby through birth (i.e. not adoption etc.) when they'll not only have to pay for their child but for such ridiculous medical costs, too?

Oh excellent! I'd likely be really upset if you'd have said otherwise, she seems so lovely. She came to perform at my university on her last tour, but it was during the Easter holidays so I was at home, seething.

I've tried many times to recreate the smoky eye look - it looks so fab on other people! - but I end up looking like a naughty child that's been left unattended with mummy's makeup collection.

I've lived in Europe my whole life and I am constantly shocked by the expense of medical care in the US. I have all these questions that I want to ask because I'm genuinely curious about this, but I can't manage to get past how staggering that figure is.

This is the main thing that's stood out to me in this Dirt Bag! Although I'm not excusing what he did to necessitate an apology in the first place, the notable lack of "sorry, not sorry, nyah nyah nyah" has given me a great big smile.

Considerable confusion ensued after reading the write-up on J. Cole. I was still waiting for the requisite “sorry, not sorry” section to crop up so that I could be grumpy and sulky before I realised that I’d finished reading it and it actually read like a genuine, thoughtful, accepting-the-consequences-of-his-actions…

Urgh, I realise now that I didn't even attach the link the first time: http://www.sundaynews.co.zw/index.php?opti…

To distract from the fact that my answer to your issue was far from satisfactory, please accept this topical cartoon as distraction!

Up thread I’ve listed a few texts that could be of interest in this area in a comment to Hermione Stranger; like I said there it’s by no means comprehensive and it’s fairly basic because when I was studying it I tended to gravitate towards simple words! Fanon’s got some really thought-provoking ideas about the veil in…

I’m trying desperately hard to think of something useful but I’m drawing a blank! It’s a fairly niche viewpoint which probably won’t help matters as it likely wouldn’t come up in the mainstream, obvious literature, so short of painstakingly searching through all possible radical subaltern scholars I don’t know what to…

My face contorted into the most horrific expression of excitement when I saw that you’d asked for suggestions! I’m forever glad nobody was around to witness it, because I don’t think I’ve ever been creepier in my life.

Not a problem; I love this subject so I'm more than happy to share! I'd definitely agree with the point you raised about expecting perhaps a certain degree of assimiliation, too. I'm still waiting on an article dealing with the Islamic veil that doesn't raise at least one tiny red light with me!

Not a problem! Like I said, I find this topic very interesting so I'm always desperate to find people to share resources such as this with! Also Herman used to grade my work very generously so it feels only fair to try to link people to his work whenever possible.