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Positive thinking is for suckers!
Oliver Burkeman
Self-help books don't work. Sex, family and work are stressful. Maybe we need to look at happiness in a new light
Anthony Burgess didn’t read science fiction
Jonathan Lethem
As an aspiring novelist, I asked the famous autodidact if his work was inspired by Philip K. Dick. Bad idea
“Parenthood’s” Mae Whitman: “All I do is talk about Tim Riggins and the Panthers”
Willa Paskin
The drama's prodigal daughter cops to an obsession with a bygone TV character — and to crying watching her own show
America’s first class-warfare election
Robert Borosage
Never has a presidential candidate so brazenly embraced the interests of the 1%. Mitt Romney may be the last
Kids hate-tweet Obama, echoing what they hear at home
Marie Myung-Ok Lee
A Tumblr of high-schoolers' awful tweets reveals that racism still gets passed on from generation to generation
“Silver Linings” is gold
Andrew O'Hehir
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence face love and mental illness in the rich, manic new romantic comedy
I’m gay. Why did I marry a woman?
Charles Rowan Beye
I knew I loved guys in high school and never stopped sleeping with them. But then I met a woman who fascinated me
Book publishing crisis: Capitalism kills culture
Scott Timberg
Publishing teeters as Random House and Penguin plan to merge. It's time for a government policy to protect the arts
Kirk Douglas’ revisionist history
Tom Benedek
In his self-important new memoir, the iconic actor wildly overestimates his role in breaking Hollywood's blacklist
Barney Frank: “Within 10 years, we will have won this fight”
Alex Seitz-Wald
After Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay senator, Rep. Barney Frank reflects on the future of LGBT
“Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir
Henry Giardina
Salman Rushdie's book adopts the tropes of genre fiction, and reveals why confessional literature inevitably fails
Edward Gorey’s not as macabre as you think
Jillian Steinhauer
Sure, his fiction accepts the terrible as inevitable, but it also offers its fair share of redemption
Tammy Baldwin: On the brink of victory?
Matt Taylor
Once a long shot, Tammy Baldwin could well beat Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin's Senate race. How she came this far
Killed for having black friends?
Bill Morlin
The FBI may investigate the racially-charged murder of Michael Luke Darby, a 24-year-old white man
Undercover as a gay man
Timothy Kurek
I wanted to question my conservative Christian beliefs. So I "came out" to my family -- and my whole life changed
Toxic atheism drives people apart
Chris Stedman
I'm not a believer any longer, but I do believe in respect. The "New Atheism" of Dawkins and Harris is simply toxic
Pete Townshend: “I wasn’t trying to make beautiful music”
Stephen Deusner
The Who's legendary guitarist saw art in destruction. Revelations in his memoir of being abused might explain why
Four days of silence
Beverly Willett
Still grieving my divorce, I went to a Buddhist retreat and discovered the challenge -- and joy -- of not speaking
“Master of the Mountain”: The real truth about Thomas Jefferson
Laura Miller
Forget Sally Hemings -- a historian discovers the ugliest side of a founding father in his ledgers
“Homeland”: In Carrie we (should) trust
Roxane Gay
Carrie may be in a fragile state, but that doesn't mean she's off her game
A nice place to rest
Shannon Firth
Think apartment-hunting in New York is competitive and expensive? Try finding a cemetery plot
A kids club where parents die
Mary Elizabeth Williams
When I got cancer, I put my kids in a support group. Then the death toll started rising
R.I.P. American veterans halls
Chris Pomorski
Veterans of Foreign Wars clubs are emptying at an alarming rate. Where did the lobby go wrong?
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