75th Anniversary Overview In celebration of the National Institute of Mental Health’s (NIMH) 75th Anniversary, NIMH Director Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D. , and Deputy Director Shelli Avenevoli, Ph.D. participated in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything”... Read more »
Frederick Douglass dreamed about Haiti. He longed to stand on Haitian soil—the only place in the Americas where enslaved Africans had fully eradicated slavery, ousted European colonialism, and established an independent nation.... Read more »
Jonathan Glover’s new book, on the seemingly intractable nature of the Israel-Palestine conflict, quotes George Orwell on the Spanish civil war: “Everybody believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in... Read more »
The posthumous memoir of Lisa Marie Presley written in collaboration with her daughter Riley Keough will be published later this year. The as yet untitled book about Lisa Marie’s life as the... Read more »
It’s one of the stranger anomalies of French intellectual life that Impressionist painting—by far the most influential of French cultural enterprises—has received so little attention from the most ambitious French critics and... Read more »
January 11, 2024 • Institute Update • 75th Anniversary The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) began celebrating its 75th Anniversary on September 13, kicking off the yearlong festivities with the symposium,... Read more »
You might think, with the completion of the Human Genome Project 20 years ago now, and the discovery of the double helix enjoying its 70th birthday this year, that we actually know how... Read more »
Canadian actor Keanu Reeves will publish his first novel this year in collaboration with British author China Miéville. Their joint novel is titled The Book of Elsewhere and is set in the... Read more »