Books, considered slowly.
Long reads on long books — fiction, science, and the patient nonfiction that does not make the news.
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Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind
A Harvard-trained nutritional psychiatrist's evidence-based case that diet — particularly removing ultra-processed foods, seed oils, and excess refined carbs — is foundational to mental health.
Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health
A Harvard psychiatrist argues that mental disorders — depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, anxiety — are metabolic disorders of the brain, rooted in mitochondrial dysfunction.
The Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It
A reported history of depression and its treatments — psychotherapy, antidepressants, ECT, ketamine, exercise, and the cultures that produced each. Honest about how much remains unknown.
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
A Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative history of cancer — from its earliest documented appearance in ancient Egypt to the cutting edge of immunotherapy and targeted treatment today.