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Since her death, Didion has become a literary subject as popular for her image and writing as for the fascination she inspired for almost half a century. It's still bright [...]

Byline: Casey Schwartz Since her death, Didion has become a literary subject as popular for her image and writing as for the fascination she inspired for almost half a century. [...]

Byline: Casey Schwartz 'Christopher Isherwood Inside Out' By Katherine Bucknell Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 852 pp. $45 - - - 'I'm straight, I'm married, I have three kids. When I [...]

When the British American writer Ruth Whippman decided to thaw one final embryo, she was 42 years old. She and her husband had two sons, Solly, then 6, and Zephy, [...]

When the British American writer Ruth Whippman decided to thaw one final embryo, she was 42 years old. She and her husband had two sons, Solly, then 6, and Zephy, [...]

I am sitting in the lobby of my son’s Brooklyn school, reading the https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/93731/i-will-bear-witness-volume-1-by-victor-klemperer/ of Victor Klemperer. The diaries have sat on my shelf for years — invaluable, excruciating records [...]

Byline: Casey Schwartz In 'Brutalities: A Love Story,' Margo Steines chronicles her lifelong fixation with being hurt - and shows herself some compassion. BRUTALITIES: A Love Story, by Margo Steines [...]

Byline: Casey Schwartz Yunte Huang was emerging from the bathroom at the Formosa Cafe, a legendary Chinese restaurant in Hollywood, when a woman with long blond hair waved him down [...]

In ''Fires in the Dark,'' Jamison, known for her expertise on manic depression, delves into the quest to heal. Her new book, she says, is a ''love song to psychotherapy.'' [...]

In “Fires in the Dark,” Jamison, known for her expertise on manic depression, delves into the quest to heal. Her new book, she says, is a “love song to psychotherapy.” [...]

Byline: Casey Schwartz In 'Good Girls,' Hadley Freeman chronicles her long battle with anorexia, and its larger implications. GOOD GIRLS: A Story and Study of Anorexia, by Hadley Freeman The [...]

Byline: Casey Schwartz By Jean M. Twenge Atria. 550 pp. $32.50 - - - Jean Twenge thinks it's lame to name generations with letters. 'It just seems lazy. We should [...]

Matthew Pratt Guterl's parents wanted a family that embodied an integrated American future. The ''experiment'' -- his father's word -- had painfully mixed results. It's early morning in a classroom [...]

Matthew Pratt Guterl’s parents wanted a family that embodied an integrated American future. The “experiment” — his father’s word — had painfully mixed results. It’s early morning in a classroom [...]

Byline: Casey Schwartz Roth was an outraged witness to tyranny, which led him to exile, and his books to the bonfire. In 'Endless Flight,' Keiron Pim examines the flawed man [...]

Roth was an outraged witness to tyranny, which led him to exile, and his books to the bonfire. In ''Endless Flight,'' Keiron Pim examines the flawed man and his resonant [...]

If you're wondering which pills and how many of them Americans have relied upon to make ourselves feel better since Covid-19 arrived, the answer, in short, is yes. ''I should [...]

In the fall of 2018, the writer Ada Calhoun went into the basement of her parents' apartment on St. Marks Place, in Manhattan's East Village. She was looking for old [...]

Byline: Casey Schwartz In his new book, Johann Hari investigates how our brains have been broken by technology - and what we can do to fight back. The typical American [...]

Marianne Williamson was invoking Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy and Thoreau, barefoot in a brownstone in Brooklyn. “If everything you’re doing is making everybody happy, you’re not doing the right stuff yet,” she [...]

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . Marianne Williamson was invoking Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy and Thoreau, barefoot in a [...]

Sherry Turkle is best known for exploring the dysfunctional relationships between humans and their screens. She takes on a new focus -- herself -- in her memoir, ''The Empathy Diaries.'' [...]

Researchers are looking at online behavior to gauge public mental health. The results aren't pretty. Which was the saddest day of them all? This is the question you may be [...]

At 74, the venture capitalist George Sarlo might not have seemed an obvious candidate for an ayahuasca experience. Mr. Sarlo, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant who arrived in the United States [...]

Byline: Casey Schwartz Something is happening to attention. We know this, as we check our phones between thoughts, darting between Instagram and text message exchanges and back again. And now, [...]

Something is happening to attention. We know this, as we check our phones between thoughts, darting between Instagram and text message exchanges and back again. And now, our books know [...]

Byline: CASEY SCHWARTZ It was the big tech equivalent of 'drink responsibly' or the gambling industry's 'safer play'; the latest milestone in Silicon Valley's year of apology. Earlier this month, [...]

It was the big tech equivalent of ''drink responsibly'' or the gambling industry's ''safer play''; the latest milestone in Silicon Valley's year of apology. Earlier this month, Facebook and Instagram [...]

You've co-worked, co-lived and co-exercised. Are you ready to co-commune? Welcome to the Assemblage, a new club in Manhattan's upscale NoMad neighborhood. Its evening-only memberships start at $200 per month, [...]

EDEN, Utah -- One morning last month a group of roughly 60 people, including doctors, C.E.O.s and internet entrepreneurs, gathered under a big white dome to hear the mission statement [...]

OAKLAND, Calif. -- In a packed, cavernous space one weekend late in April, a crowd of thousands was becoming increasingly amped up. Rainbow hair was commonplace, purple silk pants were [...]

At 30, the writer Emily Witt found herself single and heartbroken, but also suddenly intent on examining the mythology around how life for women is supposed to be. ''Demographics have [...]

CULVER CITY, Calif. -- ''Are we ready to expose ourselves?'' J. D. Fuller asked, halfway through the graduate-level psychology class she teaches on Tuesday nights at Antioch University. Ms. Fuller's [...]

What does it take to feel understood? This is arguably the single question helping to reshape the modern psychotherapeutic landscape. Call it boutique therapy: a swirl of contemporary tastes and [...]