Sue M. Halpern

Sue Halpern is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. Her most recent book is Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research.
 (May 2009)

From the Review

May 28, 2009: Making It

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin

December 18, 2008: The War We Don't Want to See

War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003–2007 edited by Shawn Christian Nessen, Dave Edmond Lounsbury, and Stephen P. Hetz, with a foreword by Bob Woodruff

Generation Kill a miniseries written and produced by David Simon and Ed Burns, based on the book by Evan Wright

Baghdad ER a film directed by Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill

The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery a film directed by Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill

April 3, 2008: Are You Happy?

The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want by Sonja Lyubomirsky

Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment by Tal Ben-Shahar

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy by Eric G. Wilson

What Is Emotion?: History, Measures, and Meanings by Jerome Kagan

February 15, 2007: At the Gandhi Café

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

December 21, 2006: They Were in New York (letter)

October 5, 2006: Thanks for the Memory

In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel

Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside by Katrina Firlik

April 28, 2005: The Moment of Truth?

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older by Elkhonon Goldberg

May 13, 2004: City Folks

Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan

Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson

May 29, 2003: Evangelists for Kids

Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children by Ann Hulbert

Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America by Peter N. Stearns

A Mind at a Time by Mel Levine, M.D.

Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

The Myth of Laziness by Mel Levine, M.D.

September 26, 2002: Heart of Darkness

The Forgetting: Alzheimer's, Portrait of an Epidemic by David Shenk

The Memory Bible: An Innovative Strategy for Keeping Your Brain Young by Gary Small, M.D.

A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain by John J. Ratey, M.D.

Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's by Thomas DeBaggio

The Aging Brain by Lawrence Whalley

December 2, 1999: Back to Life in Texas

Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond by Larry McMurtry

Duane's Depressed by Larry McMurtry

September 24, 1998: Fresh Air Blues

Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral by Charles. Siebert

The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City by Robert Sullivan

Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park by Marie Winn

September 25, 1997: The Awful Truth

The Story of Junk: A Novel by Linda Yablonsky

The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison

Eve's Apple by Jonathan Rosen

October 8, 1992: Do the Right Thing

Billie Dyer and Other Stories by William Maxwell

March 5, 1992: There's No Place Like Home

Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir by Sissela Bok

Childhood by Jan Myrdal, translated by Christine Swanson

March 29, 1990: The Fight Over Teen-age Abortion

February 16, 1989: The Rise of the Homeless

Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America by Jonathan Kozol

June 30, 1988: Portrait of the Artist

Under the Eye of the Clock by Christopher Nolan

Books by Sue M. Halpern

Migrations to Solitude (1992)