New York Mag Cover Story: Listening to Xanax
How America learned to stop worrying about worrying and pop its pills instead. Last summer, near the end of my mother’s life, I woke up in my childhood bedroom in the middle of the night in a fever of panic. My heart was thrumming, my mind racing. In 1819, the English poet John Keats called anxiety a “wakeful anguish,” and […]