Surviving Anxiety
I've tried therapy, drugs, and booze. Here’s how I came to terms with the nation's most common mental illness.
January/February 2014
In This Issue
Surviving anxiety, the biggest hustler in e-commerce, the case for paternity leave, why we love auction shows, a brief history of the Mile High Club, and more
Features
Performance Anxiety in Great Performers
What Hugh Grant, Gandhi, and Thomas Jefferson have in common
Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet
How one of the most notorious alleged hustlers in the history of e-commerce made a fortune on the Web
Eastport, Maine: The Little Town That Might
A fishing community on the country's easternmost edge is an exemplar of American reinvention.
How to Escape the Community-College Trap
More than half of community-college students never earn a degree. Here's how to fix that.
The Jewish Mark Twain
The writer who inspired Fiddler on the Roof shouldn’t be mistaken for a mere spinner of artless folktales.
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Brock Davis Daddy Track: The Case for Paternity Leave
It makes men more involved at home, women more involved at work, and workplaces friendlier for all parents.
Paul Windle The Accidental Spectator’s Guide to Improving Sports
How to make televised games less boring
John Cuneo Saving the Lost Art of Conversation
In a fast-paced digital age, an MIT psychologist tries to slow us down.
Jeff Elkins The Good-Luck Charm That Solved a Public-Health Problem
Warding off anemia with small iron fish
George Bates Finding the Next Edison
Everyday people are responsible for a striking number of inventions and innovations. How can business enlist more of them?
Sam Island Who Cheats—and Why
Is it about inequity? Or atheism? Or does it just feel good? Recent studies try to make new scientific sense of an old human problem.
Sébastien Thibault When Will Genomics Cure Cancer?
A conversation with the biogeneticist Eric S. Lander about how genetic advances are transforming medical treatment
Nishant Choksi You’re Saying It Wrong
The implacable pedantry of the word police
Shannon Toth/Shutterstock Problem: My Friends Talk Over One Another at Dinner Parties
Our advice columnist to the rescue
Snvv/Shutterstock Libraries Are the New Homeless Shelters
A very short book excerpt
Rubberball/Mike Kemp/Getty, Comstock/Getty Big in Norway: Slow TV
Why an entire nation enjoys footage of logs burning and salmon swimming upstream
The Culture File
Gluekit TV's Post-Recession Obsession With Stuff
What to make of all these reality programs about pawn stores, storage lockers, and hoarders?
Greer Studios/Corbis Outline The Elmore Leonard Paradox
Why so many screen adaptations of the work of America’s most cinematic novelist are so bad—and what makes the exceptions, like TV’s Justified, so good
Oliver Barrett “Mon Dieu, What a Mother!”
Marianne Moore’s poetic voice was supremely idiosyncratic—and so was her family life.
Mike Basher The Archaeology of Beer
Dogfish Head’s ancient, hybrid brews embody a past before ale and wine became separate categories.
Chris Philpot A Brief History of the Mile High Club
Air travel hasn’t quite lost all its romance.
Crown Rediscovering Middlemarch in Middle Age
A new book in brief
Departments
The Conversation
Responses and reverberations
Graham Roumieu The Big Question
What party would you most like to have attended?
