Mental health Archives

Mental health

The Fever Called Living

On the plight of environmental-illness refugees

Dark Knights of the Soul

by Gail Godwin,

From Getting to Know Death, which will be published this month by Bloomsbury. I have been close to people who one day found themselves in the desperate place and didn’t…

If One Part Suffers

by Michelle Orange,

The enigma of body integrity dysphoria

Gated Community

From reports of people living at airports. A German former pilot spent thirteen days in Viracopos–Campinas International Airport after he was dumped by a woman he met online. An Indian…

The Old Imperium

by John Crowley,

Learning to live with my aging mind

Her Kind

by Naomi Jackson,

On losing and finding my mind

A Prayer’s Chance

by Brian Goldstone,

The scandal of mental health in West Africa

The Odd Couple

by Jean Stein,

From West of Eden: An American Place, an oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles by Jean Stein, published this month by Random House. Stein is the author of Edie:…

Weekly Review

by Sam Stark,

Caught in the Web, 1860. Senator Barack Obama beat Senator Hillary Clinton by huge margins in primaries in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia, and Senator John McCain beat…

Caught in the web

by Harper’s Staff,

The great writers, in bats per belfry

by Felix Post,