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Konigsberg's first book is The Truth About Grief: The Myth of Its Five Stages and the New Science of Loss.
Change happens incrementally, yet in our modern era things are changing faster than ever. The demarcation between home and work life has all but dissolved, as has the line between our public and private selves. In this week’s cover story (available to subscribers here), TIME looks at 10 big ideas that will shape our lives, [...]
You know you’re at a TED conference when one of the first people you see, aside from the concierge at the Marriott, is making his way down Linden Avenue in Long Beach, Calif., astride a Segway. (You resist telling him that Segway founder Jimi Heselden met his death on one of his own company’s two-wheeled vehicles [...]
Now that the most eminent breast-cancer charity group in the nation has apologized for its decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood, it’s worth looking at what went wrong. The backlash was not just grassroots and viral but reached the most senior levels. All seven California affiliates of Komen opposed the decision, and Dr. Kathy Plesser, a [...]
I watched Downton Abbey for the first time last night — late to the party as always. My mother is a Downton Abbey acolyte who is trying to bring the rest of the family into the fold. I was curious about what had gotten everyone so hooked. My cell phone rang at 8:51 p.m. while I [...]
The first female minifig — those 4-centimeter people with the yellow jugheads — to appear in the January 2012 LEGO catalog is a doctor ably holding up the back end of a stretcher with her male colleague in a new ambulance set. But she doesn’t show up until page 12, after dozens upon dozens of [...]
The first card arrived Dec. 3 — double-sided, with multiple photos of two smiling children taken in all four seasons of the year and a tasteful yet cheery border. Panic set in later that afternoon. Where is my camera? Do I still have the battery charger? How will I wrangle my kids, and what kind [...]
Thanks to Occupy Wall Street, everyone’s talking about personal income (but rarely, of course, mentioning their own. Some taboos are hard to break.) • Over the weekend, the New York Times did a whole series on the “near poor”, a newly defined and hugely growing population that includes Jessie Adams, a floor refinisher who with [...]
Despite the general accolades for firing Joe Paterno from his position at Penn State, some commentators are still having a hard time using the correct word for a grown man having anal intercourse with a 10-year-old boy: rape. Scott Ostler in the San Francisco Chronicle fumbles with “bad things.” Frank Bruni in the New York Times and [...]
• The week started off with more recriminations of Occupy Wall Street for being amorphous, directionless, and not knowing what they want. Bill Keller in the New York Times proclaims that “So far, the main achievement of Occupy Wall Street is showing up.” Easy to say from his perch on the Upper West Side. • [...]
• Amity Shlaes thinks kids embrace Halloween and its dangerous pagan roots because of a lack of religion, and that “Children or adults who today relish every detail of zombie culture or know every bit of wizarding minutiae are seeking something to believe in.” Last time I went trick-or-treating, they were seeking candy. • Pastor [...]
* The New York Times decides a respectable amount of time has elapsed since his death and publishes not one but two Steve Jobs satires by Nora Ephron and novelist James Collins. * Jobs acolytes feel left out of yesterday’s extremely private and celebrity-filled memorial service at Stanford. * Meanwhile, medical blogs continue to debate Harvard [...]
