Author: Betina González

Betina González is the bestselling author of several novels and short story collections, for which she has won several awards, including the prestigious Premio Tusquets. She is also a journalist for Buenos Aires-based daily Clarin.

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A Buenos Aires Hair Salon, Evita’s Bun And The Benefits Of Female Group Therapy

In times of despair, hair salons can function as therapy centres, where customers get and give advice for free. Source: RDNE Stock Project/Pexels

The hair salon or barbershop can easily become a friendly, therapeutic space for people who need to talk, but only if a sensitive owner can foment the right level of coziness

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Ideas Society

The Words “Failure” And “Success” Are Slowly Destroying Modern Life

Photo of trophy cups on a table
A row of trophy cups aligned on a table XavierPraillet/Unsplash

Modern times and capitalism have given the words failure and success an emotive charge and excessively personal connotations, turning mechanical, humdrum notions into engines of angst.

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Society

Dear Love Letter, Where Have You Gone?

Detail of French painter Auguste Toulmouche's work "The Love Letter" (1883), showing a woman wearing a pink dress reading a letter
Auguste Toulmouche's "The Love Letter" (1883) Art Renewal/Wikimedia Commons

Whatever happened to the love letter? Many are sitting in literary archives, while today’s youth prefers WhatsApps and emojis.

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