Power Crazy

Do lunatics make better leaders?

A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness By Nassir Ghaemi

Scar Tissue

When I was stabbed 17 years ago in a New Haven coffee shop, the wounds did not only come from the knife

Three Poems

Frost

Paradise

A fledgling romance in the Washington mountains, and another, doomed love affair that cannot be forgotten

A Mother’s Secret

The images in a treasured photo album preserve an idealized past, while leaving out the painful story of a family torn apart by the Holocaust

Responses to our Summer 2011 Issue

Idleness

Beginners

To make it in the music business requires more than a bit of luck: it might mean choosing between family and oneself

Practice

Monster Theory

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

Who Would I Be Off My Meds

Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistanceby Laura Delano

A Midsummer Night’s Stream
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A Midsummer Night’s Stream

American Carthage
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Echoes from the ancient conflicts between Hannibal’s city and Rome continue to reverberate well into the present

Who’s to Say?
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A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity

Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesusby Elaine Pagels

Learning to Be Social
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What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?

Chapters and Verse

Looking for the poet between the lines

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetryby Adam Plunkett

Asteroid Hunters
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The scientists and engineers who defend our planet day and night from potentially hazardous space rocks

The Murderer as Everyman
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Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall

Lessons From Harlem
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A white blues player’s streetside education

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