Smug About Suffering
Review of "Cracked," by James Davies, and "Our Necessary Shadow," by Tom Burns.
Aug 2013
Review of "Cracked," by James Davies, and "Our Necessary Shadow," by Tom Burns.
Mar 2013
Review of "Sticks and Stones," by Emily Bazelon.
Dec 2012
If we want to stem violence, we need to begin by stemming despair.
Jun 2011
To allow her to die as she wished, we had to lie, and cheat, and break the law, and that behavior was antithetical to the way we had and have lived.
Jul 2010
The world with Terry was a world full of other people; the world without Terry is a world from which he alone seems to be missing.
Mar 2009
For anyone who has been depressed, Plath's description rings astonishingly true.
Nov 2008
For Woolf, all experience is permanently suffused with relentless vitality and blunt tragedy.
Jan 2008
The depressed person often recognizes that it is ludicrous to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
Nov 2007
I considered myself a caretaking person, but I had no idea what solicitude really entailed until I had been its object.
Nov 2006
To treat the most complicated organ in the body appropriately demands considerable expertise.