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Essays

Opioids and Paternalism

To help end the crisis, both doctors and patients need to find a new way to think about pain

Essays

Opioids and Paternalism

To help end the crisis, both doctors and patients need to find a new way to think about pain

ARTICLES

Still Wilderness

What are we feeling when we are feeling joy? And where inside us does that feeling reside?

Against Solidarity

As a writer, with a writer’s chronic need for detachment, I have avoided the ideology of gender

Urban Wild

In slowly gentrifying Detroit, you might see a fox, or even a coyote, but where have all the stray dogs gone?

A Jane Austen Kind of Guy

I get it that women find my affinity for their writer intrusive, but her world has much to offer men, too

Still Wilderness

What are we feeling when we are feeling joy? And where inside us does that feeling reside?

Against Solidarity

As a writer, with a writer’s chronic need for detachment, I have avoided the ideology of gender

Urban Wild

In slowly gentrifying Detroit, you might see a fox, or even a coyote, but where have all the stray dogs gone?

A Jane Austen Kind of Guy

I get it that women find my affinity for their writer intrusive, but her world has much to offer men, too

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

“How Bad Is Your Pain?”

Notes on the nature of suffering

poetry

Four Poems

“The Last of England,” “Hawthorn,” “Surveillance,” and “Fells Point Songs”

fiction

commonplace book

Book essay

A Dream of a Writer

Peter Taylor’s stories reveal an artist immersed in the quotidian who rose to the complexities of the heart and psyche

book reviews

Wave of Anguish

Could disobedience have saved a group of Japanese students?

Metropolis Rising

How the Big Apple took its place among the world’s great cities

Antiquarian Dreams

Sometimes it’s okay to judge history by its cover

Running With the Pack

On one of the most successful ecological experiments of all time

Feast of Eden

A look at humanity’s most famous star-crossed couple

The Doctor’s Discontents

A harshly critical new biography of the father of psychotherapy