What's got my attention this week #57

Links and recs to get you through the weekend

Say their names: Carol Hunt (left with her husband John Hunt) and her daughters Louise, 25, and Hannah, 28. The three women were murdered at home in a crossbow attack on Tuesday. Louise’s ex, Kyle Clifford, is in custody. These killings are shocking. If only they were also surprising.

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• My piece of the week:

Hanif Kureishi

on when a lover becomes a carer. Gorgeous.
• We never talk of a woman’s pleasure.

Poorna Bell

on blame, shame and rewriting our sexual narrative as we get older.
• Last weekend Andrea Robin Skinner, the daughter of Nobel-winning writer Alice Munro who died in May, wrote a remarkable essay about being abused by her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin (Munro’s second husband) and the fact that Munro had chosen to stay with him. (£) It’s best if you read it for yourself, if you haven’t already. Inevitably the internet plunged into “art monster” turmoil, but these two different not-at-all-hot-takes on it by

Brandon

“What I’m Doing About Alice Munro” and

Leah McLaren

“‘Alice had a lot to answer for’: on sexism, selfishness and the contempt for female genius” gave me a lot to think about.
• The rise of the 50+ female adventurer.
• The woman who fought for the inclusion of female athletes at the Olympics.
• Jealous? Here’s how

Kirsten Powers

tamed her envy of almost everyone.