NECESSARY EVIL: THE LIFE OF JANE WELSH CARLYLE (618 pp.)—Lawrence & Ellsabefh Hanson—Macmillan ($7.50). Thomas Carlyle was often a boor, but never a bore. When he came courting Jane Welsh, he “made ...

WHAT HATH A MAN?—Sarah Gertrude Millin—Harper ($2.50). Says the introspective hero of this slyly anti-British novel: “Isn’t pioneering always a running away from something? . . . It’s more difficult ...

After kicking off the rust in Europe this June, Neurosis will return stateside for shows with their support acts beginning July 6 in Seattle. The trek primarily stays out west, only venturing as far ...

Late in his memoir “Jimmy Neurosis,” former Saveur Editor in Chief James Oseland recalls a moment when the world appears to open up. It’s 1979, in San Francisco, and Oseland is 16 years old. For two ...

A memoir can be many things: A deeply reflective reckoning with the past; the tearing off a veil between two types of existence; a tale of derring-do. Or, in the case of “Jimmy Neurosis,” the portrait ...

Suicidal behavior, I recently argued, usually “stems from an intersection of three things: 1) difficult circumstances resulting in major stress or trauma; 2) a neurotic temperament; and 3) an internal ...

The following excerpt is from Benjamin Gilad and Mark Chussil‘s book The New Employee Manual: A No-Holds-Barred Look at Corporate Life. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Apple Books | ...