Marina Benjamin
Marina Benjamin’s books include the memoirs The Middlepause and Insomnia. She has written for the Guardian, the Paris Review, the New York Times and Aeon where she works as a senior editor. Her latest memoir A Little Give is published in April, completing her midlife trilogy.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 162
For the Love of Losing
Marina Benjamin
‘Winning, it turns out, was the cracking whip that meant gamblers had to stay where they were until they lost their money all over again.’
Marina Benjamin on losing.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Personal Growth
Marina Benjamin
‘Refusal is the last recourse of the powerless.’
Marina Benjamin on her years of not eating, and not growing.