LSD
Annals of Inquiry
How I Started to See Trees as Smart
First, I took an acid trip. Then I asked scientists about the power of altered states.
Annals of Inquiry
Ketamine Therapy Is Going Mainstream. Are We Ready?
The mind-altering drug has been shown to help people suffering from anxiety and depression. But how it helps, who it will serve, and who will profit are open questions.
The Theatre
The Bad Trip of “Flying Over Sunset”
James Lapine’s new musical, at the Vivian Beaumont, sets the LSD hallucinations of three nineteen-fifties celebrities to song.
Marmalade Skies Dept.
Turn On, Tune In, Get Well
New York is getting its first psychedelic-medicine center, with the help of a startup called MindMed, which develops hallucinogens to treat mental illness and addiction, and is funding an institute at N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center.
A Critic at Large
Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth?
The history of espionage is a lesson in paradox: the better your intelligence, the dumber your conduct; the more you know, the less you anticipate.
Under Review
The Science of the Psychedelic Renaissance
On trip reports from Timothy Leary, Michael Pollan, and Tao Lin.
Persons of Interest
How Ayelet Waldman Found a Calmer Life on Tiny Doses of LSD
The polymath writer, known for defying expectation, turned a treatment for her unstable moods into her latest project.
Page-Turner
The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia
Culture Desk
Out Loud: Psychedelics as Therapy
Fiction
Under the Sign of the Moon
A Reporter at Large
The Big Sleep
Annals of Technology
A Trip That Doesn’t End
A Reporter at Large
Operation Delirium
Annals of Obsession
Deadhead
Fiction