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When I asked Shear about the biological aftermath of grief, she brought up two-person neuroscience, an emerging discipline that studies…

All these years later, I could still see their room so clearly: its dark, almost black wood panelling, their checkerboard-tiled floor. It…

Roger and Carol had both worked and always hired dog walkers during the day, but Roger took Andy around the block for the last walk of the…

“He just bit me!” I said. The woman stood upright and pushed her hair away from her face. She was pretty except for her mouth, which was…

Watch “The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong.” Gary Shteyngart was just seven years old when his family emigrated from the Soviet Union and settled in…

The popular girl at my elementary school—let’s call her Denise—was not blond like Barbie but pretty in a conventional manner I envied. She…

In 1982, I began shooting an almost entirely improvised film,“This Is Spinal Tap,” which also happened to be my first as a director. It…

It was nice to get away, if only for a few hours. To have someone bring me bowls of nuts and glasses of water. At the table, I mentioned…

A woman is running. In the path, a man appears as if from nowhere. He is masked and he holds a knife. What are her choices? On one side is…

The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then James died.…

This is the fifth article in the “Tabula Rasa” series. Read Volumes One, Two, Three, and Four. Bleb “Bleb” is worth eight points in…