In 1864, a book called Spectropia set out to expose how the brain can trick people into believing they’ve seen a ghost. Across 27 pages, author J.H. Brown laid out how readers could summon spooky ...
Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying. By Alexandra Jacobs ...