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The first time I considered giving up my baby, Dan, I was lying alone in bed. It was midnight, my children were asleep and my husband, a serviceman, was deployed away from home. I was so taken aback by my thoughts that I sat bolt upright, ran to the bathroom and splashed cold water on

The first piece of art that Karen Green made after her husband, David Foster Wallace, took his own life on 12 September 2008, was a forgiveness machine. She is standing in the neat, white studio at her house at Petaluma, north of San Francisco, explaining to me how the machine worked and how it didn't.

It may be the season of advent, but the "star of wonder" described in this week's poem "Starfish" by John Wedgwood Clarke is not directly related to the one in the popular Christmas carol. Asteroidea are not stars and not classified as fish, either: marine biologists prefer the term "sea star".

Shameless. That is the word on everyone's lips as each day more revelations surface about the venality and corruption of Spain's political and business class. And yet there is one sector of Spanish business that is predicated on shame. It is the cobrador del frac (the frock-coated debt collector), a peculiarly Spanish institution that is

From VR brothels to synthetic wives, Levines fun and empathic presenting style is just perfect. If were ever to grasp the dizzying world of tech-inspired sex, shes a must Sex! Ah, youve gone all uncomfortable, havent you. Blushing and wriggling in your chair. Is someone watching you read this? What if what if they