Opioids and Paternalism
To help end the crisis, both doctors and patients need to find a new way to think about pain
By David Brown
Opioids and Paternalism
To help end the crisis, both doctors and patients need to find a new way to think about pain
By David Brown
ARTICLES
Still Wilderness
What are we feeling when we are feeling joy? And where inside us does that feeling reside?
By Christian Wiman
Against Solidarity
As a writer, with a writer’s chronic need for detachment, I have avoided the ideology of gender
By Emily Fox Gordon
Urban Wild
In slowly gentrifying Detroit, you might see a fox, or even a coyote, but where have all the stray dogs gone?
By Laura Bernstein-Machlay
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
By William Deresiewicz
Still Wilderness
What are we feeling when we are feeling joy? And where inside us does that feeling reside?
By Christian Wiman
Against Solidarity
As a writer, with a writer’s chronic need for detachment, I have avoided the ideology of gender
By Emily Fox Gordon
Urban Wild
In slowly gentrifying Detroit, you might see a fox, or even a coyote, but where have all the stray dogs gone?
By Laura Bernstein-Machlay
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
By William Deresiewicz
DEPARTMENTS
editor's note
tuning up
poetry
Four Poems
“The Last of England,” “Hawthorn,” “Surveillance,” and “Fells Point Songs”
By Andrew Motion
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
By Ann Beattie
book reviews
Running With the Pack
On one of the most successful ecological experiments of all time
By Verlyn Klinkenborg
The Doctor’s Discontents
A harshly critical new biography of the father of psychotherapy