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June 1, 2017
Diana Trilling’s Discontents
To keep up with the New York Intellectuals, Diana Trilling forgot—and forgave—nothing.
Vivian Gornick
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February 3, 2017
Donald Trump’s Power Is Scary, Not His Mental Health
Psychiatrists are speaking out to warn of the dangers of Trump’s instability, but politicizing mental health is a mistake.
Miriam Markowitz
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December 1, 2016
Letters From the December 19-26, 2016, Issue
Return of the repressed… Book therapy… Happily enough ever after… Dylan revisited… Bentham’s revenge…
Our Readers and Samuel Moyn
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November 2, 2016
Freud’s Discontents
Why did one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers fade from significance?
Samuel Moyn
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July 29, 2016
What Breeds in ‘Standing Water’
Eleanor Chai’s poems require delving below the surface of each compact, enjambment-packed stanza, forcing the reader through a process of discovery not unlike Chai’s own origin story.
Larissa Pham
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May 20, 2016
Stephen O’Connor Dreams of Thomas Jefferson
Even as it condemns Jefferson for his immoral conduct, O’Connor’s novel still holds him up as a hero.
Erin Vanderhoof
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July 16, 2015
July 16, 1951: J.D. Salinger’s ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ Is Published
“Why has this unpretentious, mildly affecting chronicle of a few days in the life of a disturbed adolescent been read with enthusiasm?”
Richard Kreitner
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May 6, 2015
May 6, 1856: Sigmund Freud Is Born
“One cannot close this book without a sense of depression,” The Nation’s reviewer said of Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams.
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
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October 28, 2014
Strange History
John Lahr’s biography of Tennessee William gets mired down in psychoanalysis.
Julia M. Klein
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May 13, 2014
How Tolerant Should We Be of Intolerance?
It’s one of the most ticklish questions of liberal philosophy.
Cathy Gere