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How Traveling to 83 Countries Made Me Who I Am

Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits

On the Move, by Oliver Sacks

With “On the Move,” Sacks has finally presented himself as he has presented others: as both fully vulnerable and an object of curiosity.

Quarantine & Its Discontents

Quarantine has been a time of great intensity, immensely difficult but, at least for some of us, also intimate.

The Middle of Things

The deeper you look into other souls—and writing is primarily an exercise in doing just that—the clearer people’s inherent dignity becomes.

Simultaneous Evasions

Despite this fantasy of involvement, the audience members have no ability to change the action of the play at all.

The Conversation

Authors Andrew Solomon and Abraham Verghese discuss intimate trust, earned and unearned, in friendship, family, love and sex.

Dad who fights for son with autism says he never gives up

Since Bill Davis’ son, Chris, was diagnosed with autism as a toddler, the Pennsylvania dad has learned to modify his expectations, often making changes where needed in order to help his son succeed.

East Side Storey

On the mysterious, often aggravating ways of the New York City co-op board.

Audio: A Conversation with Marion Coutts

Andrew Solomon chats with fellow Wellcome Book Prize winner Marion Coutts.

The Mystifying Rise of Child Suicide

Every suicide creates a vacuum. Those left behind fill it with stories that aspire to rationalize their ultimately unfathomable plight.