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Alvarez was the author of many non-fiction books. His renowned study of suicide, The Savage God , gained added resonance from his friendship with Plath. He also wrote on divorce ( Life After Marriage ), dreams ( Night ), and the oil industry ( Offshore ), as well as his hobbies of poker ( The Biggest Game In Town ) and mountaineering ( Feeding ...
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression is a memoir written by Andrew Solomon and first published under the Scribner imprint of New York's Simon & Schuster publishing house in 2001. There was a later paperback under the Touchstone imprint. [ 1 ]
Book Review Index is an index of book reviews and literary criticism, found in leading academic, popular, and professional periodicals. It has been published since 1965.
25 Years Ago, 'Darkness Visible' Broke Ground Detailing Depression — this is an audio file of an NPR broadcast of an interview with writer Andrew Solomon, who chronicled his own battle with depression in his book The Noonday Demon, about how Styron's work opened up discussions of mental illness. (Original airdate: December 17, 2014)
The book received a positive reception, with Jamison being praised for her bravery. [3] In 2009, Melody Moezzi, an Iranian-American attorney who is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, reviewed An Unquiet Mind for National Public Radio. [4] She described the memoir as "the most brilliant and brutally honest book I've ever read about bipolar ...
Antony has written a number of peer-reviewed papers, book reviews, and essays. [2] She has also edited and introduced three volumes: Philosophers Without Gods (Oxford University Press, 2007), a collection of essays by leading philosophers reflecting on their life without religious faith; Chomsky and His Critics, with Norbert Hornstein (Blackwell Publishing Company, 2003); and, with Charlotte ...
Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud is a book written by Philip Yancey and published by Zondervan in 1988. [1] It is one of Yancey's early bestsellers . [ 2 ] Library Journal reviewer Elise Chase called the book "extraordinarily empathetic and persuasive; highly recommended". [ 3 ]
Favourable reviews quoted in the paperback edition (published by Black Swan in 1985) declared that ‘Mr Heller is dancing at the top of his form again… original, sad, wildly funny and filled with roaring’ (Mordecai Richler, New York Times Book Review) and that ‘the book is worth the price of admission for the first few pages alone ...