“As long as I take those three pink lithium-carbonate capsules every day, I can function. If I don’t, I will be riding on top of subway cars measuring speed and looking for light in elevated realms”: Friend of Gawker Jaime Lowe writes about lithium, the element that helps control her bipolar disorder.
This, Not That: Stories From the Week You Should Read
Several of this week's best stories examine the fragility of trust and the damage caused when one's belief in another's integrity shatters into pieces. Charity Johnson. New York Times television critic Alessandra Stanley. The United States military. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. All are guilty of betraying those…
The Life and Death of Michael Brown: A Ferguson Reading List
Words sustain us. In the weeks following the death of Michael Brown—the unarmed 18-year-old fatally shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson—there has been much written about Brown's life, the love he had for his family and friends, his affinity for rap music, and the racial tensions that plague the small St.…
