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Continue reading →: Book Review: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot AronsonThe phrase “mistakes were made” has become a familiar fixture of public apologies, a way for politicians and institutions to acknowledge that something went wrong without naming who was responsible. Social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson borrowed it for the title of their 2007 book, which has since been…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Denial of Death by Ernest BeckerFew books about morality have had the reach of The Denial of Death. Published in 1973, Ernest Becker’s study of how humans manage the knowledge that they will die won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1974, two months after Becker himself died of cancer at forty-nine. Half a…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline HarpmanFirst published in French in 1995, I Who Have Never Known Men spent decades as a quiet cult novel before a new English edition from Transit Books in 2022 turned it into an unlikely bestseller, carried largely by readers urging one another to pick it up. Jacqueline Harpman, a Belgian…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Untethered Soul by Michael A. SingerThe Untethered Soul is one of those books that tends to travel by recommendation. Since its 2007 release, Michael A. Singer’s guide to inner freedom has found a wide audience, helped along by Oprah Winfrey’s enthusiasm and a steady stream of readers passing it on to friends. Its promise of…
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Continue reading →: Nobody Tells You What Comes After SurvivingI know what it feels like to spend years just trying to get through the day. Not living, exactly—surviving it. Waking up already tired. Doing the thing in front of you because the thing in front of you is the only thing you can afford to think about. And then,…
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Continue reading →: Rebuilding Your Social Life After IsolationOn the particular silence that follows when you finally get out—and realize the crowd was gone There’s a story we tell about leaving difficult relationships or situations. In this story, the hard part is the leaving itself. Once you’re out, the narrative suggests, there’s relief. There’s freedom. There are friends…
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Continue reading →: Love After the StormWhat It Takes to Build a Relationship After Trauma Let me guess. Someone told you that before you can love someone else, you need to fully love yourself. Maybe a therapist, maybe a well-meaning friend, maybe a quote you saw on Instagram sandwiched between an ad for a juice cleanse…
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