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Psychological aspects

You Are Not Alone Across Time

by Wyatt Mason,

Using Sophocles to treat PTSD

The Trees Step Out of the Forest

By Barbara Ehrenreich, from Living with a Wild God, out next month from Twelve. Ehrenreich, a longtime contributor to Harper’s Magazine, is the author of many books, including, most recently,…

Tears for Fears

by Thomas Frank,

One of the many poignant glimpses of midcentury America afforded me by a fiftieth-anniversary reading of the Warren Report was the story of an ephemeral conservative organization called the American…

From messages posted over the past five years to the Yahoo group Adopting-from-Disruption, where parents of adopted children offered them for “re-homing,” also known as adoption disruption. The group was…

Damage Control

by Ben Lerner,

The modern art world’s tyranny of price

Wrong Answer

by Nicholson Baker,

The case against Algebra II

A Brief History of Scent

by Beau Friedlander,

The smell of life and death — and everything in between

Root and Branch

by Gary Greenberg,

Andrew Solomon’s exploration of difference

Afterword

by John le Carré,

I wrote The Spy Who Came in from the Cold at the age of thirty under intense, unshared, personal stress, and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the…

The Cake Killer

by Jerzy N. Kosinski,

From “ ‘Being There’ in Toronto,” a May 3, 1987, speech by Jerzy Kosinski. Oral Pleasure, a collection of Kosinski’s speeches, essays, and interviews, edited by Barbara Tepa Lupack and Kiki…

Breeds of America

by William Melvin Kelley,

Coming of age and coming of race

Psychological aspects

You Are Not Alone Across Time

The Trees Step Out of the Forest

Tears for Fears

Foster Scare

Damage Control

Wrong Answer

A Brief History of Scent

Root and Branch

Afterword

The Cake Killer

Breeds of America

Debug

Psychological aspects

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You Are Not Alone Across Time

The Trees Step Out of the Forest

Tears for Fears

Foster Scare

Damage Control

Wrong Answer

A Brief History of Scent

Root and Branch

Afterword

The Cake Killer

Breeds of America

August 2012

Debug