And after reading “A Really Good Day,” you understand just why Ms. Waldman might have been willing to experiment to find relief. Ms. Waldman wanted to know what something as luxuriously pedestrian as “better” was like. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“A Really Good Day” is a captain’s log of her not-so-strange trip. Part of the problem is aesthetic: Ms. Waldman has a tendency to slide into the prefab language of psychotherapy or self-help. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyAs ever, Ms. Waldman is wielding her powers of provocation to goad us into an uncomfortable but necessary conversation.

Source: New York Times January 11, 2017 21:47 UTC