Renaissance Man
Doctor, writer, musician, and orator: Rudolph Fisher was a scientist and an artist whose métier was Harlem
By Harriet A. Washington
Renaissance Man
Doctor, writer, musician, and orator: Rudolph Fisher was a scientist and an artist whose métier was Harlem
By Harriet A. Washington
ARTICLES
The Twilight Self 
Embracing mutability in a world gone mad means understanding how fantasy took hold of American psychiatry
By Philip Alcabes
Netflix Goes to Vietnam
When a filmmaker wanted to understand the war that changed his father, he decided to make a documentary
By Thomas A. Bass
The Enigma of Ur
Is the music of the future one in which form and structure give way to an aesthetic inspired by the primordial?
By Joseph Horowitz
Back to Bellevue
Two deaths nearly five decades apart and the hospital that felt like a nightmare
By Natalie Angier
The Twilight Self
Embracing mutability in a world gone mad means understanding how fantasy took hold of American psychiatry
By Philip Alcabes
Netflix Goes to Vietnam
When a filmmaker wanted to understand the war that changed his father, he decided to make a documentary
By Thomas A. Bass
The Enigma of Ur
Is the music of the future one in which form and structure give way to an aesthetic inspired by the primordial?
By Joseph Horowitz
Back to Bellevue
Two deaths nearly five decades apart and the hospital that felt like a nightmare
By Natalie Angier
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DEPARTMENTS
editor's note
tuning up
The Valedictions of Elwyn Brooks
How the eminent essayist made an art of signing off
By Gregory Martin
The Breath Is Everything
How an encounter with the Dalai Lama led to forays into Buddhism
By James Conaway
The Heart of the Matter
A new cardiovascular drug may be revolutionary, but what we really need is more quality time with our doctors
By Jay Neugeboren
The Visual Turn
Painting portraits of other people can tell us truths about ourselves
By Paula Marantz Cohen
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anniversaries
fiction
commonplace book
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