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Bolano’s ‘2666’: The Best Book of 2008
There could be nobody better suited to describe the hilarious, improbable triumph of Robert Bolao than Bolao himself, which is a shame because he’s dead.
What the Changes to the DSM Mean
The attempt to catalog all the ways that Americans can go crazy dates at least to 1840, when the Census included a question on “idiocy/insanity.” From those two simple categories, we now have more than 300 separate disorders; they are listed in a 943-page book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM for short.
The Maguindanao Massacre: Still No Justice One Year Later
One year ago on Tuesday, at least 57 men and women, including 31 journalists, were slaughtered on a grassy clearing in the southern Philippines. They were on their way to a political event, driving caravan-style through Maguindanao province’s rugged, green hills when their convoy was stopped by armed men — allegedly members of a private army controlled by Andal Ampatuan Jr., the scion of the clan that rules the area
ELECTIONS: Beating the Voter Backlash
Like other ethnic groups before them, American blacks are steadily climbing the political ladder, winning more state, local and national offices each election. Some 90 black mayors are now serving in U.S.
AMERICANA: The Wild Ones
He wore black denim trousers and motorcycle boots And a black leather jacket with an eagle on the back.
Why a Ruling on Leaving Water in a Desert Is Troubling
Daniel Millis, a volunteer with the faith-based organization No More Deaths, was arrested in 2008 for littering.
Depression: What You Can Do
We’ve come a long way from Freud’s couch. The big breakthrough arrived in the late 1980s with the advent of safer and more widely effective drugs, like Prozac
Inside the New Medical Privacy Law
Who hasn’t experienced that sinking feeling during a visit to the pharmacy , or the face-reddening trauma of a teenage trip to the dermatologist ? If a new law is successful, those excruciating moments are a thing of the past
MONEY: Empty Pockets on a Trillion Dollars a Year
CAN a nation with a trillion-dollar economy be running out of money? That startling question is forcing itself upon every government official who must shape a budget, from President Nixon down to the head of the smallest local mosquito-abatement district