I don’t need a smartwatch to tell me how rested I am when I wake up
On waking, maybe look at the sky, kiss your partner, say your prayers, think about what to wear or cook today
A collection of articles by Sarah Moss
On waking, maybe look at the sky, kiss your partner, say your prayers, think about what to wear or cook today
I’m okay on not much sleep but I was tired. I drove with the windows open and taught my classes standing up
Knitting and sewing are rarely done for profit, but that doesn’t make these arts and crafts trivial
Now I can think about everything I enjoy about Dublin, almost all the way home, instead of worrying about getting home alive
A northern aesthetic feels like truth in a way that no more conventional paradise ever could, a fact encapsulated in pebbles
If you resonate with these words, especially if you literally resonate with them, please don’t tell me
Sarah Moss: The men I know have much more demanding haircuts than the one I want, so why am I being charged a fortune?
Clothes well made by fairly paid people out of good quality fabric are not cheap, nor should they be
Sparkle is not a necessity for survival but aesthetic delight is part of what makes us human
We keep coming back for more, hoping for rules that will allow us to feel okay about inhabiting ordinary bodies in a culture committed to anxiety and hierarchy
Fear is determined by storytelling more than by data, and women have been taught to fear being outside for centuries
The idea that reading is innately virtuous, other than religious material, is modern
I am convinced that way-finding without a phone schools us to pay attention in a way that we lose when we merge with a blue dot on a screen
Unlike the generation which has grown up with mobile phone cameras, when I am photographed I look awkward, wooden, smiling like someone who just wants this to stop now
Childhood rickets is back in Britain – and it’s not because ill-health is the logical outcome of poor choices
Emma Donoghue, Joseph O’Connor and Colum McCann are just some of the big names with new books coming out in 2025. Here’s our pick of fiction for the year ahead
Most families have someone missing even if the table is holly-decked and groaning
I’ve seen the slow loss of dignity and the increase of pain that mark the last years of lives drawn out by healthcare in modern society
We should stop moving so fast. Resist where you can. Hold space to grow and digest
Some of the grandmothers I know are a surgeon, a judge and professors, while many others belong to the English literary canon
In fact, a locally-made, organic doughnut might well be better than green beans grown with scarce water in Namibia and air-freighted in plastic wrap
If I have a family tradition, it’s moving, being an outsider, starting again
I long for ways of thinking and writing and cooking that admit in the most serious and simple way, food is love
I’m making friends who are much younger and much older than me, because many women of my age are still ferociously juggling work and childcare and not free for coffee or a film
Binary categories hurt everyone, especially those whose natures or physiques are non-compliant
Society considers mums suspected of working by choice to be playing a zero-sum game where career ambition comes at the cost of motherly love
Sarah Moss: Writers have the same responsibilities to family, friends and community as everyone else
An English person in Ireland speaks with eight centuries of history gesticulating over her shoulder
It’s hard to see how training students to concentrate on their own fear of inadequacy and desire to beat their neighbour is likely to open paths out of the death spiral of climate change and capitalism.
It was only after moving to Ireland that I had deep conversations about emigration with Irish friends who’d moved to England
I’m a parent, tolerating worry is in the job description, and so is the gradual handover of physical safety from parent to child
It’s an interesting challenge to start something without the aim of mastering it
It is horribly regressive to say that all women lose their minds in midlife. Did you know that men have hormones too?
The desire to be worthy, or the fear of not being worthy enough, is explored in this moving memoir
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