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Diane Cole

Diane Cole  is the author of a memoir, After Great Pain: A New Life Emerges, and is the book columnist for The Psychotherapy Networker. She also writes for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other publications.

Twenty-seven Boxes

Twenty-seven Boxes

When a lifetime’s worth of artifacts and memories arrived at my door

by Diane Cole | Thursday, March 25, 2021
Man of Faith—and Doubt

Man of Faith—and Doubt

Hugh Nissenson should have been better known for his spare historical novels

by Diane Cole | Thursday, January 02, 2014

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

King, Kennedy, and the Power of Words

by Tim Wendel

April 4th marked the 53rd anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. That night in 1968, presidential candidate Robert Kennedy broke the news to an Indianapolis crowd gathered for one of his rallies. “Listening to the speech decades later is to be reminded of the real power of words,” writes Tim Wendel in this 2012 essay. “How they can heal, how they can still bring us together, but only if they are spoken with conviction and from the heart.”

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