Constantly yearning for the approval of others can cause us to be emotionally exhausted. Psychotherapist Nancy Colier talks about kicking the habit.
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Heather Radke’s book Butts: A Backstory reveals how women’s backsides have been described, displayed and fetishized — and what that says about gender, race and more.
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What does it take to recover from a truly brutal childhood? In his bestselling new memoir Dirtbag, Mssachusetts former biker, porn actor, and smuggler Isaac Fitzgerald confesses all.
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In The New Yorkers, veteran NY Times journalist Sam Roberts recounts the lives — and a few deaths — of some of the city’s history-making but unheralded residents.
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Peter Orner’s new memoir, Still No Word From You, is unlike any I have ever read…which is why it might help you write yours.
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Throughout history, color has affected how we feel, what we buy, who we admire, who we fear, and countless other preferences that, ironically, we’re blind to.
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Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people ever to survive Auschwitz. She tells us her story from the ghetto to the gas chamber.
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Journalist Hayley Campbell reveals the inner lives of gravediggers, embalmers, executioners, homicide detectives, anatomists, death doulas, and people who deal with dead bodies every day.
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Historian Emily Bingham on how America’s most nostalgic song, My Old Kentucky Home, based on Uncle Tom’s Cabin, began its life on the white supremacist minstrel circuit and remains a dog whistle for the Lost Cause South.
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