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On the Persistence of Magical Thinking in the Face of Grief

On the Persistence of Magical Thinking in the Face of Grief

Mary-Frances O’Connor Considers the Mutually Exclusive Truths Our Grieving Brains Can Hold

By Mary-Frances O'Connor | February 7, 2022

Mary-Frances O’Connor Recommends Readings for the Grieving Brain

Mary-Frances O’Connor Recommends Readings for the Grieving Brain

The Psychologist and Author Shares Her Picks for
Understanding Life’s Lows

By Mary-Frances O’Connor | February 1, 2022

Rachel Krantz on Navigating the Mental Frameworks of Non-Monogamy

Rachel Krantz on Navigating the Mental Frameworks of Non-Monogamy

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | January 27, 2022

What It Means to Be Finite Creatures With Infinite Minds

What It Means to Be Finite Creatures With Infinite Minds

Oliver Burkeman on Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | January 27, 2022

Let’s Talk About Bruno: In <em>Encanto</em>’s OCD Allegory, the Weird Brother Deserves Better

Let’s Talk About Bruno: In Encanto’s OCD Allegory, the Weird Brother Deserves Better

What Rachel May Wants People to Know About Living with OCD

By Rachel May | January 26, 2022

How American Authors Helped Push an Agenda of “Temperance”

How American Authors Helped Push an Agenda of “Temperance”

Carl Erik Fisher on the "Drunkard" Character and Early Prohibitionist Campaigns

By Carl Erik Fisher | January 25, 2022

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Imaginary Dentistry and Real Novels: On My Father’s Deathbed Hallucinations

By Eileen Pollack | January 24, 2022

The Rest Principle: On the Necessity of Recovery, in Fitness and Writing

By Bill Hayes | January 20, 2022

Tareq Azim on Building a Healthy Relationship with Fear

By Keen On | January 20, 2022

Oh no: the children’s word of the year is ... “anxiety.”

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By Walker Caplan | January 18, 2022

Kingsley Amis’s Instructions for Coping with Hangovers, Both Physical and Metaphysical

Kingsley Amis’s Instructions for Coping with Hangovers, Both Physical and Metaphysical

Avoid at All Costs: Cigarettes, Cold Showers, and Evelyn Waugh

By Kingsley Amis | January 18, 2022

Mikhaila Peterson on Her Podcasting Journey

Mikhaila Peterson on Her Podcasting Journey

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | January 18, 2022

Paul Lisicky and Terese Marie Mailhot on the Long-Term Mental Health Effects of the Pandemic

Paul Lisicky and Terese Marie Mailhot on the Long-Term Mental Health Effects of the Pandemic

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 13, 2022

Edgar Gomez on Sex, Desire, and Going on PrEP

Edgar Gomez on Sex, Desire, and Going on PrEP

Also, Being Dubbed a "High-Risk Homosexual"

By Edgar Gomez | January 13, 2022

How Our Social Emotions Laid the Foundation for Functioning Societies

How Our Social Emotions Laid the Foundation for Functioning Societies

Leonard Mlodinow Considers the Purpose of Shame, Admiration, Jealousy and More

By Leonard Mlodinow | January 12, 2022

The Right to Potential: On the Dramatic History of Women’s Elite Running

The Right to Potential: On the Dramatic History of Women’s Elite Running

Danielle Friedman Considers the Groundbreaking Impact of Kathrine Switzer

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