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Jay Neugeboren is the author of twenty-two books of fiction and nonfiction, including the memoir Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival and, most recently, the novel Max Baer and the Star of David (2016). (August 2020)
Take Me to Bellevue
Though sometimes maligned as New York’s own bedlam, the centuries-old public hospital has never turned away a patient—and is itself a great survivor.
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital
by David Oshinsky
January 19, 2017 issue
Dark Comedies of the City
Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life
by Michael Greenberg
December 17, 2009 issue
Infiltrating the Enemy of the Mind
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
by Elyn R. Saks
April 17, 2008 issue
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