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“How does one not write a depressing book about depression?”
‘I look underneath my desk and think I might sit there’
Scherezade Siobhan: Tabeer
Janice Lee: Depression, Denial, Depression
Amy Glynn: Ruin Graced
Couple Love, Pet Care
Henry Giardina
Henry Giardina: Furrows and Hollows
The Blackness by Jenny Diski
Elias Tezapsidis on Grant Maierhofer
Giorgio Fontana: Invisible Agony
Before depression became a psychologist’s object of study, it nearly took his life…
Book excerpt:
‘On Depression’ by Nassir Ghaemi
Life and Chemistry, Melancholia and Depression
Book excerpt:
‘End This Depression Now!’ by Paul Krugman
Book excerpt:
‘The World in Depression 1929-1939’ by Charles Kindleberger
Junko Kitanaka: Depressed Nation
John Kenneth Galbraith was a satirist of economics almost as much as a practitioner of it…
Varying Forms of Ambivalence
Fashionable hysteria
Poems:
‘Retablo for Galileo, measuring Dante’s Hell’ and ‘Retablo for a parabola’ by Michelle Penn
Poems:
‘Triumphs and Laments’ and ‘Roar’ by Daniel Tobin
Book excerpt:
‘The Gentrification Plot’ by Thomas Heise
Video:
The Great Waves
Poem:
‘Tonsure’ by Kevin Young
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