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Joe Bernstein

Italy’s Great Historical Novel

By: John Semley   |   New Yorker   |   October 2022
Henry James decried the nineteenth century’s “loose baggy monsters,” but a new translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s “The Betrothed” demonstrates the genre’s power.
Joe Bernstein

The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs

By: John Semley   |   Wired   |   July 2022
As psychedelic therapies for mental health go mainstream, companies are recruiting chemists to create patentable versions of hallucinogens. Critics say it’s all a bad trip.