How the Aztecs Predicted the Apocalypse
But then it didn’t happen. Or did it?
What Happens When You Stare at the Sun?
“The injunction not to look directly into the sun isn’t just medical — it’s always political.”
Book of Lamentations: A ‘Review’ of DSM-5
A book review that imagines the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as a dystopian novel:
The author (or authors) writes under the ungainly nom de plume of The American Psychiatric Association—although a list of enjoyably silly pseudonyms is provided inside (including Maritza Rubio-Stipec, Dan Blazer, and the superbly alliterative Susan Swedo). The thing itself is on the cumbersome side. Over two inches thick and with a thousand pages, it’s unlikely to find its way to many beaches. Not that this should deter anyone; within is a brilliantly realized satire, at turns luridly absurd, chillingly perceptive, and profoundly disturbing.
