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Mental illness

Dark Knights of the Soul

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…

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New Books

Because I’ve written about government conspiracies, I sometimes hear from crazy people. “Only the intervention of AI can stop Man from creating Hell cybernetically,” one wrote recently. “It would be…

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Lone on the Range

Prairie madness on the Great Plains

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Her Kind

On losing and finding my mind

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A Prayer’s Chance

The scandal of mental health in West Africa

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The Odd Couple

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:…

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The Pure Gold Baby

Dame Margaret Drabble on the essayistic voice in fiction and North London anthropology

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The Encyclopedia of Insanity

A psychiatric handbook lists a madness for everyone

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