Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids
By Julie Salamon
The Penguin Press, 363 pages, $25.95
For anyone with a healthy fear of death, disease or antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the idea of spending more than an hour in a hospital—let alone a day or a Read More
COMFORTABLY NUMB: HOW PSYCHIATRY IS MEDICATING A NATION
By Charles Barber
Pantheon, 280 pages, $26
It’s hard to believe it, but our little baby is growing up. Prozac has just turned 20.
It’s been quite a heady two decades for our favorite mood-boosting pill, a regular Drew Barrymore kind of childhood, Read More
On a recent evening, Eric Tate and Allison Kramer, urban professionals in their 30’s, were entertaining another couple in their apartment in Astoria. They had little reason to think that the evening would be anything less than Rachael Ray-perfect: a nice lasagna, a bottle of wine …
And then, halfway through dinner, the topic Read More
YOUR INNER FISH: A JOURNEY INTO THE 3.5-BILLION-YEAR HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY
By Neil Shubin
Pantheon, 229 pages, $24
When the renowned paleontologist Neil Shubin announced in 2006 that he’d discovered an ancient fossil with an uncanny resemblance to a “missing link” between fish and land-dwellers, creationists responded with all the fury of pissed Read More
The tots came at the rate of 63 an hour—or 1.05 a minute—gliding by in a haze of Pirate Booty and stroller dust.
It was a beautiful Wednesday afternoon in early October, and all up and down Park Slope’s Seventh Avenue, women were busy being mommies. There were a few nannies, and four fathers Read More
When Hillary Clinton plopped down on the couch between the hostesses of ABC’s girlie chat show, The View, on Monday morning, she seemed poised to reprise the housewife routine she had performed so well during her last appearance on the program in December 2006. That was the routine in which she jabbered on about how Read More
By most descriptions, Cintra Wilson, the writer, cultural pundit, and all-around liberal lady, is not your typical, rock-ribbed Hillary Clinton supporter. From the beginning, she thought the Iraq war “was malignantly rotten and insane,” she said. In 2000, she voted for frequent presidential candidate and perennial un-Democrat, Ralph Nader. And for a brief moment this Read More
Each night, when Alison Pill slips into the lead role of Theresa Rebeck’s new Broadway play, Mauritius, she must endure what can only be described as a theatrical gauntlet. She gets tossed about the stage like a three-ounce rag doll. She has to hold her own against F. Murray Abraham—the F. Murray Abraham—and newer delights Read More
The cars came by twos and twos, ones and threes, swimming into the parking lot of the Red Hook Fairway like salmon returning to their childhood stream.
It was shortly after four on a summer Wednesday—not even rush hour—but the six lanes of asphalt lot were already two-thirds full. They were jammed with cars Read More
On a steamy Sunday in early August, at an hour known as church-time across certain swaths of the U.S., the famed heart surgeon and health guru, Dr. Mehmet Oz, strutted about a stage at the Javits Convention Center, preaching his own kind of gospel.
He was speaking to an audience made up mostly of Read More
