Sue M. Halpern
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Sue Halpern, a frequent contributor to The New York Review, is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College. Her new book, Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News From the Front Lines of Memory Research, will be published in May. (April 2008)
From the Review
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)