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Friday 27 February 2026
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Psychological minimalism is a way to clarify your life by cutting the mental noise from your environment and routines
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by Yousri Marzouki
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Burhan Sönmez, now the president of PEN International, was a rising human rights lawyer in Turkey. A brutal assault nearly killed him – and propelled him to a life in literature
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by Kaya Genç
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The prospect of reaching into his past and processing it through writing was a certainty that kept him alive
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Kaya Genç, European Press Prize laureate and author of five books: Macera (2008), An Istanbul Anthology (2015), Under the Shadow (2016), The Lion and the Nightingale (2019) and Şehir (2025)
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Read the Portrait
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A film by Jeanne Paturle and Cécile Rousset
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The inner workings of the mind: emotions, memory, decision making and more.
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The bonds that tie us: family, friendships, love and community.
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Dealing with psychological challenges and sustaining body and mind in the face of adversity.
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Finding meaning, wonder and spirituality.
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