Sylvia Plath, author of The Bell Jar, lived with severe depression until she died from suicide at 30. “I think the actual experience of writing a poem is a magnificent one,” Plath says in the interview. She and her husband…
Poet and People Connector Rose Styron Savors Each Summer on Martha’s Vineyard
By Gregory Crofton Rose Styron has a natural elegance about her. While she describes herself as maybe a little “pollyannaish,” others just call it being “In the Company of Rose.” That’s the name of a new documentary on her life…
Hockey Fight: Wives Reveal Cost of Concussions
Behind the facade of glamour and wealth, the wives of some retired hockey enforcers are in their own fierce fight. They want the NHL to acknowledge that there’s a link between fights, and head injuries on the ice and long-term…
Psychedelic Science: Magic Mushrooms and Depression
Magic mushrooms have been used ritually by the native people of Mesoamerica for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. In the 1950s, R. Gordon Wasson and his wife traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico and participated in a mushroom ritual. That experience…
Prozac: Revolution in a Capsule
The New York Times Retro Report: When Prozac was introduced in 1988, the green-and-cream pill to treat depression launched a cultural revolution that continues to echo.