Sitemap - 2024 - Juvenescence with Leah McLaren

random thoughts from the school christmas fair

how to be poor and happy at christmas

the new new sex

a nook of one's own

questions to ponder before you die

a beautiful gift idea for future-you

liminal london

unstuck yourself: an online master class

a picture

how be single again without offending your married friends

how to decatastrophize your life and your mind

decatastrophize your life

what's going to happen now?

reasons why therapy isn't making you feel better

conversations with the dead

update from the cracks: this is how financial control works

how to murder yourself and your family

coriolanus: a man for our times

this made me laugh

robots vs. the people

mental health awareness day is the definition of insanity

how to survive in the wilderness

the short memory of humans

skinted and vinted

on writing and reading and literary fandom and famedom and a searing insight I learned from the genius that is Elizabeth Strout

My Substack Summer

soon all literary prizes will be women's prizes

enmeshment: a love story

i'd be dead without my friends, seriously

all writers are psychotic thin-skinned little bitches

how i transformed my divorce-haunted house into a beautiful family home on a shoestring budget during the hardest year of my life (by far)

reasons to move to the country (or not)

the dirty little secret of my summer holiday

more important true facts

foxhole

why i don't regret leaving my unhappy marriage two years later

juice

the secret lives of writers

The Digital Migrant Crisis

‘neurodivergence’: the ultimate luxury concept

to the young couple at the airport with two inconsolably sobbing toddlers

on the life-changing joy of re-reading books

'Alice has a lot to answer for'

in praise of outdoor baths and mid-summer immodesty

how i finally fell in love with summer festivals

traumatised by the trauma plot

how not to get attacked on the streets of london

in praise of summer parties

tuesdays

the new sex

THE JOURNALIST AND THE CONFIDENCE MAN

some important true facts

on suppressed feelings and stories and the epic two-year court battle i can't write about

the case for boycotting mother's day

a conversation with the writer polly vernon

birth story

sorry to hear your ex was a narcissist

guest post: men in politics can’t be trusted

chasing mr. ripley

a conversation with the memoirist Lily Dunn

a little update

the bad bargain of a 'good' marriage

the best thing on the internet today

skiing: a love story

cancel culture is cancelled

adaptation

a conversation about writing, caring and dating with the memoirist Caro Giles

the date from hell

don’t hate me because i was a writer in the naughties

in praise of wild garlic

there is a rabbit crack in everything

how to talk to yourself

erotic thriller

a conversation with the acclaimed memoirist Clover Stroud

the dead are laughing at us

how to have a very real problem

erotic thriller

why i am no longer writing about substack on substack

short shed chat

erotic thriller

edit note to self: part 2

come walk with me

edit note to self: part one

short and sweet

making time

creative procrastination

things i miss

how to keep track of your books

open thread: what's your hidden talent?

a magic bullet for 2024