Jay Neugeboren

Beyond the Asylum

Over the past decade a range of politicians and public figures have called to rebuild asylums in order to address the country’s mental health crisis. But there is another, better way forward.

Writing While Parenting

Dickens in Brooklyn

When, a few weeks ago, I took down from my shelves Dickens’s Great Expectations and found the “Dear Reader” letter, I was transported again—as I’d been so often while reading Dickens—to that mid-century world of my childhood.

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

Take Me to Bellevue

Though sometimes maligned as New York’s own bedlam, the centuries-old public hospital has never turned away a patient—and is itself a great survivor.

On Wiseman’s Heights

Dark Comedies of the City

‘The Enemy of the Mind’: An Exchange

Infiltrating the Enemy of the Mind