In books and movies, though, versions of amnesia lurk everywhere.” Think Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), Memento (2000), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), 50 First Dates (2004); think just ...
Most of us see empathy as a force for good. From an early age, adults tell children to imagine stepping into another's shoes to teach them respect and kindness. But in his new book, Yale University ...
If I told you that Peter Carey's latest novel, "Amnesia," was cri de coeur about corporate interests controlling Australia, you might scurry in another direction. If I told you the book was about a ...
In his introduction to The Vintage Book of Amnesia, novelist Jonathan Lethem observes that, “Real, diagnosable amnesia—people getting knocked on the head and forgetting their names—is mostly just a ...