How to be hopeful: Chanel Miller on reaching for optimism after being dealt a bad hand
Once a week, the ‘pocket lady’ brought treats in her skirt to the writer’s school. The gifts weren’t perfect, but there would always be a second chance
How to be hopeful: nine photographers on their most inspiring pictures
Joy in an orphanage, refugees reaching safety, warriors encountering a young rhino and the greening of a tropical hotel. Images that give hope for 2020 – selected by Sarah Gilbert
How to be hopeful: Colum McCann on the broken violin that played in a refugee camp
Music can be a form of resistance – but an unstrung violin didn’t hold much promise. Then it was fixed, a plume of dust rose, and the fiddler began to play
How to be hopeful: Lisa Taddeo on the thumb injury that cheered her up
After losing eight people she loved deeply in a decade, the author of Three Women was feeling hopeless. But there came a surprising respite from her hypochondria
