The New York Review of Books

The Freud Question: An Exchange

December 8, 2011

Freud & Cocaine: An Exchange

November 10, 2011

Physician, Heal Thyself: Part II

October 13, 2011

Physician, Heal Thyself: Part I

September 29, 2011

Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted by Gerald Imber

An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine by Howard Markel

The Truth About Prozac: An Exchange

February 14, 2008

Talking Back to Prozac

December 6, 2007

The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder by Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield

Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness by Christopher Lane

Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression by David Healy

Melville the Great

December 1, 2005

Melville: His World and Work by Andrew Delbanco

‘Kafka Up Close’: An Exchange

April 7, 2005

Kafka Up Close

February 10, 2005

Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form by Stanley Corngold

Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka by Stanley Corngold

Franz Kafka: The Jewish Patient by Sander L. Gilman

Kafka: Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions by Elizabeth Boa

K. by Roberto Calasso, translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock

‘Out, Damned Blot’

November 4, 2004

Out, Damned Blot!

July 15, 2004

What’s Wrong with the Rorschach?: Science Confronts the Controversial Inkblot Test by James M. Wood, M. Teresa Nezworski, Scott O. Lilienfeld, and Howard N. Garb

The Trauma Trap

March 11, 2004

Remembering Trauma by Richard J. McNally

Memory, Trauma Treatment, and the Law by Daniel Brown, Alan W. Scheflin, and D. Corydon Hammond

Zen & the Art of Success

March 28, 2002

Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center by Michael Downing

‘Saving Us from Darwin’: An Exchange

November 29, 2001

Saving Us from Darwin, Part II

October 18, 2001

The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith: Order, Meaning, and Free Will in Modern Medical Science by Robert Pollack

God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution by John F. Haught

Can a Darwinian Be a Christian? The Relationship Between Science and Religion by Michael Ruse

Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution by Kenneth R. Miller

Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould

An Urgent Matter

October 18, 2001

Saving Us from Darwin

October 4, 2001

The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism by Phillip E. Johnson

Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong by Jonathan Wells

Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe

Mere Creation: Science, Faith and Intelligent Design edited by William A. Dembski

Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology by William A. Dembski

Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism by Robert T. Pennock

Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution by Kenneth R. Miller

‘When Words Collide’: An Exchange

October 8, 1998

The Mindsnatchers

June 25, 1998

Blavatsky Lite

November 14, 1996

The Consolation of Theosophy II

October 3, 1996

The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology; The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935 by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement by Richard Noll

Remembering Anna O.: A Century of Mystification by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, translated by Kirby Olson, in collaboration with Xavier Callahan

Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America by Peter Washington

The Consolation of Theosophy

September 19, 1996

Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America by Peter Washington

Freud & His Defenders

April 20, 1995

Freud and Memory: An Exchange

March 23, 1995

Sexual & Other Abuse

March 2, 1995

Thanks for the Memories

February 16, 1995

‘Victims of Memory’: An Exchange

January 12, 1995

Down with Memory Lane

December 22, 1994

The Revenge of the Repressed: Part II

December 1, 1994

The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (3rd edition) by Ellen Bass, by Laura Davis

The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Elizabeth Loftus, by Katherine Ketcham

Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria by Richard Ofshe, by Ethan Watters

Victims of Memory: Incest Accusations and Shattered Lives by Mark Pendergrast

The Revenge of the Repressed

November 17, 1994

Unchained Memories: True Stories of Traumatic Memories, Lost and Found by Lenore Terr

The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham

Remembering Satan by Lawrence Wright

The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (3rd edition) by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis

Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria by Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters

Victims of Memory: Incest Accusations and Shattered Lives by Mark Pendergrast

The ‘Unknown Freud’: Yet Another Exchange

April 21, 1994

The Unknown Freud: An Exchange

February 3, 1994

Footnote to Freud

December 16, 1993

The Unknown Freud

November 18, 1993

Freud’s Russia: National Identity in the Evolution of Psychoanalysis by James L. Rice

Father Knows Best: The Use and Abuse of Power in Freud’s Case of ‘Dora’ by Robin Tolmach Lakoff, by James C. Coyne

Seductive Mirage: An Exploration of the Work of Sigmund Freud by Allen Esterson

A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein by John Kerr

The New Americanists

September 24, 1992

Faulkner’s Strange Fate

October 24, 1991

The Strange Fate of William Faulkner

March 7, 1991

The Portable Faulkner edited by Malcolm Cowley

Creating Faulkner’s Reputation: The Politics of Modern Literary Criticism by Lawrence H. Schwartz

William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country by Cleanth Brooks

On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner by Cleanth Brooks

Faulkner’s Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha by Daniel Hoffman

Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading of Faulkner by John T. Irwin

Faulkner’s Marginal Couple: Invisible, Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities by John N. Duvall

Reading Faulkner by Wesley Morris, by Barbara AlversonWtwith Morris

Faulkner and Modernism: Rereading and Rewriting by Richard C. Moreland

The Ink of Melancholy: Faulkner’s Novels from ‘The Sound and the Fury’ to ‘Light in August’ by André Bleikasten

The Power of Flannery O’Connor

April 26, 1990

Collected Works by Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald

The Art and Vision of Flannery O’Connor by Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.

The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists by Ralph C. Wood

Flannery O’Connor: The Imagination of Extremity by Frederick Asals

An Exchange on Mark Twain

September 28, 1989

The Parting of the Twains

July 20, 1989

Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain’s America by Susan Gillman

Mark Twain and Science: Adventures of a Mind by Sherwood Cummings

Loading the Canon

January 19, 1989

Whose American Renaissance?

October 27, 1988

American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman by F.O. Matthiessen

The American Renaissance Reconsidered: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1982-83 edited by Walter Benn Michaels, edited by Donald E. Pease

The Unusable Past: Theory and the Study of American Literature by Russell J. Reising

Ideology and Classic American Literature edited by Sacvan Bercovitch, edited by Myra Jehlen

Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context by Donald E. Pease

Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 by Jane Tompkins

Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville by David S. Reynolds

Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel by Philip Fisher

‘Pressure Under Grace’: An Exchange

October 22, 1987

Pressure Under Grace

August 13, 1987

Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn

Updike’s Version

February 12, 1987

Hi-Tech

January 29, 1987

Mr. Updike’s Planet

December 4, 1986

Roger’s Version by John Updike

In The Big House of Theory

May 29, 1986

The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences edited by Quentin Skinner

Conrad by Daylight

March 1, 1984

Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle by Zdzislaw Najder, translated by Halina Carroll-Najder

The Partisan

November 23, 1978

Essays on Literature and Politics 1932-1972 by Philip Rahv, edited by Arabel J. Porter, by Andrew J. Dvosin, with a memoir by Mary McCarthy

Stuttering Giant

March 3, 1977

Genius and Lust: A Journey Through the Major Writings of Henry Miller by Norman Mailer

High Tide

February 5, 1976

American Prophet

October 16, 1975

Life History and the Historical Moment by Erik H. Erikson

Uplift

November 16, 1972

The Breast by Philip Roth

Anaesthetic Criticism: II

March 12, 1970

Anaesthetic Criticism: I

February 26, 1970

Complaint

June 5, 1969

The Radical Students

April 24, 1969

The Conflict of Generations: The Character and Significance of Student Movements by Lewis S. Feuer

Overlive: Power, Poverty, and the University by William M. Birenbaum

University in Turmoil: The Politics of Change by Immanuel Wallerstein

Reforming the MLA

December 19, 1968

Vietnam Commencements

March 28, 1968

Gladstone’s Prostitutes

October 6, 1966

The Secret Life

August 18, 1966

The other Victorians: A study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England by Steven Marcus

Literature on the Couch

June 23, 1966

The Quest for Love by David Holbrook

Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare by Norman N. Holland

Wilson and the Academy

December 23, 1965

Lessons of the Master

November 25, 1965

The Bit Between My Teeth A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965 by Edmund Wilson

Comedy and Beyond

December 3, 1964

The Key to My Heart: A Comedy in Three Parts by V.S. Pritchett

Stations by Burt Blechman

Private Lives, Public Lives

November 5, 1964

Unfinished Funeral by Niccolo Tucci

Cabot Wright Begins by James Purdy

Bad Characters by Jean Stafford

Corridors of Power by C.P. Snow

Domestic Manners

October 22, 1964

Drive, He Said by Jeremy Larner

Teeth, Dying And Other Matters by Richard G. Stern

The Brigadier and the Golf Widow by John Cheever