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The week in audio: Filthy Ritual; Supersenses; The Beauty Queen Riots; Mother Neighbor Russian Spy

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Hannah Maguire (left) and Suruthi Bala go in search of shamanic enlightenment in the binge-tastic true-crime series Filthy Ritual.Hannah Maguire (left) and Suruthi Bala go in search of shamanic enlightenment in the binge-tastic true-crime series Filthy Ritual.Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radioPodcastsReviewA gripping six-parter tells the tale of a shamanic dealer who scammed north London’s elite, while Russian spies pull off a different kind of trick, passing as an ‘ordinary American couple’ for several years Read More...

Top 10 books about psychoanalysis

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Top 10sSigmund FreudFreud’s work changed fiction and philosophy as well as ideas of psychology and sexuality. From Michel Foucault to Philip Roth, here is some great writing about the talking cure What defines the great texts by great thinkers is that they can be read over and over again, every time provoking new thoughts. This is surely the case with Sigmund Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality from 1905. Read More...

US pro-Israel groups in bitter feud over Netanyahus far-right government | US foreign policy

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US foreign policy This article is more than 4 months oldUS pro-Israel groups in bitter feud over Netanyahu’s far-right governmentThis article is more than 4 months oldHardline Aipac – condemned for unquestioning support of PM – calls liberal rival J Street ‘grave threat’ to Israel’s security A public feud has broken out between the US’s leading pro-Israel lobby groups over who represents the true interests of the Jewish state in Washington under the most rightwing government in its history. Read More...