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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…

The Dying Industry

by Anne Fadiman,

The Hemlock Quarterly, an unassuming little newsletter that until recently was the chief perquisite of membership in the Hemlock Society, may have been the only radical publication in the United…

The Undiscovered Country

by Will Stephenson,

Can suicide be predicted?

Free Bird

by Sierra Crane Murdoch,

By Sierra Crane Murdoch, from Yellow Bird, published this month by Random House. The book investigates a disappearance on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota and explores how…

From The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. The book was published last month by the University of Chicago Press. Arendt, Scholem, and Walter Benjamin were German-born Jewish philosophers.…

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…

Getting to the End

by J. C. Hallman,

Gambling and suicide in Atlantic City

You Are Not Alone Across Time

by Wyatt Mason,

Using Sophocles to treat PTSD

The Guantánamo “Suicides,” Revisited

by Scott Horton,

A missing document suggests a possible CIA cover-up

You Had to Be There

by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc,

On the road with Doug Stanhope

Voice in the Night

by Jennifer Percy,

From Demon Camp: A Soldier’s Exorcism, by Jennifer Percy, to be published in January by Scribner. The book is an account of the two summers Percy spent reporting on a…

Suicide

Dark Knights of the Soul

The Dying Industry

The Undiscovered Country

Free Bird

Document of Barbarism

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Getting to the End

You Are Not Alone Across Time

The Guantánamo “Suicides,” Revisited

You Had to Be There

Voice in the Night

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Dark Knights of the Soul

The Dying Industry

The Undiscovered Country

Free Bird

Document of Barbarism

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Getting to the End

You Are Not Alone Across Time

The Guantánamo “Suicides,” Revisited

You Had to Be There

Voice in the Night

November 2013

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