The trauma of the Great Recession and the politics of hope

With a name, the nebulous and ominous nature of this historic period might be properly understood as a time marked not just by material and appreciable loss — property, wealth, careers, status and prestige — but also by physical duress, emotional suffering and psychological turmoil. You know, the important stuff that can’t be measured. Like the feeling of being shell-shocked for two years straight. Click here.

Interview with Mary Karr

Author of The Liar’s Club and most recently Lit. For the New Haven Advocate. Click here.

Interview with Sharon Begley

Newsweek’s science editor for the New Haven Advocate. Click here.

A Very Brief History of Eternity, reviewed

For the New Haven Advocate. Click here.

Interview with Vivian Perlis

Oral music historian and co-author of Composers’ Voices from Ives to Ellington for the New Haven Advocate. Click here.

Interview with Peter Singer

Author of The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty for the New Haven Advocate. Click here.

You Are More Than Your Brain: A Revolutionary Theory of Consciousness

An essay on Alva Noë’s Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness published in Religion Dispatches.

The Felt Life in HD

A review of The Best Technology Writing 2009 by Yale University Press published in the New Haven Advocate.

Master Class Dismissed

A review of Tad Friend’s memoir, Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor published in the New Haven Advocate.

Drawn to the Beat of a Generation

A review of The Beats: A Graphic History by Harvey Pekar published in The Forward.