Suicidal behavior Archives

Suicidal behavior

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…

Loss in Translation

by Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas,

From “Unspeakable Pain,” which was published in the Spring 2022 issue of The Yale Review. “I am Dr. Smith,” I say. “I am Dr. Jones.” For five hours a day,…

The Undiscovered Country

by Will Stephenson,

Can suicide be predicted?

What it Means to Be Alive

by Justin Taylor,

Decoding a father’s farewell

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Howard Rome,

From a letter written in July 1961 by the psychiatrist Howard Rome, who treated Ernest Hemingway at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota, before the writer’s suicide earlier that month. The…

Suicide Notes

by Daphne Merkin,

By Daphne Merkin, from This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression, a memoir that will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Merkin is the author of…

Getting to the End

by J. C. Hallman,

Gambling and suicide in Atlantic City

Abolish High School

by Rebecca Solnit,

Ididn’t go to high school. This I think of as one of my proudest accomplishments and one of my greatest escapes, because everyone who grows up in the United States…

Cruel to be kind

by Harper’s Staff,

An army of one

by Harper’s Staff,

Death and the salesman

by Tom Mabe,