ANNABEL ABBS: The subversive, creative upside of insomnia (oh joy!)
Annabel Abbs (English novelist; author of Sleepless) was crippled with insomnia. Rather than fight it she looked for its productive plus side and discovered that many incredible creatives have needed ...
23 Apr 20241h 8min
The “Uncles” climate case that could change EVERYTHING
Isabelle Reinecke (founder Grata Fund) is leading a super exciting landmark legal case that could force the Australian Government to actually stick to its climate commitments and stop approving fossil...
18 Apr 202425min
ANNA FUNDER: On Wifedom (and calling out Orwellian “doublethink”)
Anna Funder (international bestselling author of Wifedom) pens books about power. She is the author of the international bestsellers Stasiland, about the Stasi, which is being made into a TV series st...
16 Apr 20241h 12min
A FUN BACKSTORY: Because I promised it…
In last week’s interview with a Palestinian and an Israeli Father, I promised to share how we met, a story that involves a famous actor, an Irish author and a bizarre email chain that starts in the Au...
11 Apr 202411min
HELEN LEWIS: A heterodox update from TERF island
Helen Lewis (The Atlantic columnist, BBC podcaster, pop culture decoder) has become a darling of the heterodox podcasting community (and this podcast; catch my previous Wild chat with her about THAT G...
9 Apr 20241h 25min
A PALESTINIAN AND AN ISRAELI FATHER: “We must all stop being victims; victimhood causes the violence!”
Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan (peace activists with Parent’s Circle) are the two protagonists from Colum McCann’s Booker-Prize-longlisted book Apeirogon. Both lost their daughters to the conflict, te...
4 Apr 202453min
LIV BOEREE: Explaining Moloch, the mysterious game theory force breaking the world (plus a fix!)
Liv Boeree (world poker champion; astrophysicist; game theorist) is on a mission to explain why we are all trapped in a zero-sum, race to the bottom…with climate, AI, social media and politics. Why do...
26 Mar 202457min
AMA: How do you, Sarah, deal with a broken heart?
Substack subscribers have posed some beautiful thought-provoking questions this week. Do I suffer from a broken heart and how do I cope with it at a spiritual level? Do I stand by my I Quit Sugar mess...
21 Mar 202424min
