My two best friends in the literary world are Anna Karenina and Winnie the Pooh. One tells me continually that romantic love ...
What happens to us when our friends fall ill? Do we respond empathically? Or do we unconsciously act out our fears and difficulties with infirmity?
I was especially flummoxed by this sad man because I had just immersed myself in The Intimate Animal, a new book by the evolutionary biologist Justin R. Garcia on intimacy’s starring role in ...