The Sun Interview

What Ails Us: Gabor Maté Challenges The Way We Think About Chronic Illness, Drug Addiction, And Attention-Deficit Disorder
“When you’re a child and your parents can’t handle your feelings, you learn to suppress them to maintain your relationship with your parents. But what was a coping response in the child becomes a source of illness in the adult.”
By Tracy Frisch

Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Let The Bad Times Roll
Concerts gone wrong
By Lad Tobin

Pioneers
Young lovers in a cheap motel
By John Frank

Of All The Mothers In The World
Coming to peace with the ones who raised us
By Heather King

Fiction

She Walked Out The Door
When a sister disappears
By Jennifer Mason-Black

Poetry

Wondrous
By Sarah Freligh

Readers Write

The Internet
Finding an old boyfriend, a daughter’s blog, a husband’s secret
Personal stories by our readers

Departments

Sunbeams
“Life is bitter and fatal, yet men cherish it and beget children to suffer the same fate.”

The Gifted Classes
An essay by Frances Lefkowitz
[January 2003]
“I have nothing to say about the politics of poverty, what causes it and what it causes and how to make it go away. I can only tell you what poverty does to a person.”

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