The celebrated author of “Fun Home” produces a charming, funny, sincere portrait of a Vermont community.

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By Dennis Sale IN the first column in this series on Hard Psychology, I identified and illustrated specific features of brain ...

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Salome's salacious sexuality is famous in opera. But its potrayal of Jewishness is just as layered and opaque as its ...

Some of the decline can be explained by a delay in having children or a decrease in the number of children, rather than ...

Cannes Film Festival, a poignant statement resonated: "Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves." This sentiment ...

But it still seems increasingly likely that millennials will have the highest rate of childlessness of any generational ...

In the first few pages of On Breathing, the psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster remembers a patient who responded to a bad ...

Religion, or religiousness, isn't going away. Dr. Freud believed religion to be an illusion and only a stage in human ...

New techniques are increasingly effective, but we don't yet know how to combine different treatments in a tailored, ...

The conflict between different parts of our mind and the denial of certain thoughts provide a tidy explanation for the contradictory ways in which people behave.