Self-Help
...distributes homemade pills to friends and acquaintances to bring collective belief to bear on physical and emotional healing. Self-help becomes social medicine. To fix this world, we’re going to need...
"Growing Eden": Author Q&A
...mac and cheese and iron pills for a solid trimester. My body proved itself to me in spectacular ways. It proved how functional as opposed to decorative it really is....
Louder Than Bombs
...Many will tell you that they take pills for psychological illnesses, and hearing that, it becomes impossible not to ask: on what grounds does it make sense to put these...
Of Suicide
...the pills or deciding that I wish I hadn’t. I do remember the way a handful of Ibuprofen felt in my palms, sweaty and melting red dye, though not in...
The Fake as More
...come in, with the kind of anodyne, ladylike feminism that prizes smartness and self-righteousness at the expense of not only sex appeal, but also those who use it to win,...
Poems From Guantanamo
...feces and blood at his lawyer and guards. He committed suicide in the fall of 2012 with an overdose of pills he had somehow managed to hoard. After his death,...
Simple and Plain
...Elvis's sheer professionalism in this era, his refusal to sneer publicly at material far beneath him. Sure, he was on loads of pills, and the epic-scale malignant narcissism of his...
Trouble at the Language Lab
...bizarre linguistic experiments. The Flame Alphabet is in some ways more conventional. It still showcases Marcus’s fascination with jargon: The book’s first page contains a list of devices including “sound...
Vol. 22 Editors' Note: Self-Help
...Occupy-like pluralism. And in “Placebos and Noisy Bodies,” Miranda Trimmier distributes homemade pills to friends and acquaintances to bring collective belief to bear on physical and emotional healing. Self-help becomes...
Banal Brutalities
With no time for tenderness, I see my body as a sack of flesh and little more
The Thick Blue Line
...the report, police were also unable to locate 22 bags of heroin and 10 diazepam pills seized during a September 2011 arrest that DePietro made. He had to undergo counseling...
Walter White Supremacy
...do a lot of pills than unscrew a light bulb to smoke some ice, even if the substances are chemically similar. There are plenty of expert scientists making tons of...
#JustineHasLanded
...people “go to Africa” they generally go to the doctor first, who tells them to get vaccinations and prescriptions against the various diseases that Africa has: pills for malaria, shots...
Over Easy
...saucer-size eyes, and she speaks to her audience of young women from behind sheaths of feathered blond hair. “The DNA in your eggs contains genetic material from your entire gene...
The White Market
...viewers AMC wants are more likely to do a lot of pills than unscrew a light bulb to smoke some ice, even if the substances are chemically similar. There are...
Knocked Out Loaded
...mind erasers, ropies, wolfies, forget pills, and the date-rape drug are among the most menacing endearments for the stuff. The drug was developed in the 1970s by Hoffman LaRoche and...