narcissism

  • My husband is too creative to work

    We're going bankrupt and losing our house because he refuses to take a job.
  • My parents are obsessed with genealogy

    Why would healthy adults who are barely in their 60s become so attached to the past?
  • My ex is a slacker and he's got the house!

    My therapist says I'm enabling him, but I do it for our daughter.
  • My mother acts like a child -- and looks like one too

    She competes with me in everything and demands constant attention.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    "Game of Shadows": The Barry Bonds steroid book fills us in on what we already knew, and it's still explosive. What's shocking is how far ahead the cheaters are.
  • Fit to command

    The U.S. should require that presidential candidates have military experience.
  • "Feminism = Narcissism"?

    Read this post only if you want to be really annoyed by Jonah Goldberg.
  • My sister is the meanest person alive!

    I don't want to shut her out of my life, but her behavior is beyond the pale.
  • I don't want to go through childbirth!

    Though my fiancé says he understands, I'm afraid he'll be unhappy if I don't bear him a child.
  • "Fascination" by William Boyd

    A collection of stories teeming with infidelity and selfishness will fill you with nothing less than fascination.
  • The mystery behind Inspector Clouseau

    Geoffrey Rush brilliantly embodies the grandiose visions and callous self-involvement of a comic genius in HBO's "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers."
  • Fear and narcissism in New York

    In trying to transfer his heroic, powerful image to Bush, Schwarzenegger reveals the deep anxieties of the GOP.
  • I'm an insecure saboteur

    I have a habit of destroying all of my relationships after they're about a year old.
  • From tragedy to farce

    He's running for president as an independent, not as a Green. He has no organization. He's starting late. Does Ralph Nader's narcissism have no bounds?
  • But enough about you

    From Britney Spears to Angelina Jolie to robber CEOs, narcissists are selfish and maddening -- and yet we just can't get enough of them.
  • "The Sweetest Dream" by Doris Lessing

    One of our greatest novelists delivers a family saga that's also a scathing indictment of the selfishness of the '60s era left and its Third World idols.
  • "The Real World" refuses to grow up

    The show that spawned reality television comes back for its 10th season, forgetting the lessons it taught everyone else.
  • "Digital Diaries"

    Natacha Merritt's photographs of herself giving head are a high-tech display of sexual narcissism.
  • Blinded by science

    Love and molecules converge in a hot Thai swim one evening.
  • Dear Jon; Love, Jon

    In which a young Romeo pens verses of true love -- to himself.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Mary Frances Berry talks back, defending KPFA strategy; Cintra Wilson is "simplistic and condescending; differentiating between self-love and self-absorption.
  • Love me, love my wife?

    Is it OK for me to see my married male friend without his wife tagging along?
  • Must dog eat dog?

    After preaching that humans live by animal laws of aggression and selfishness, evolutionary psychologists are finding the animal kingdom is not as brutal as they imagined.
  • The Salon Interview - Ian McEwan

    Dwight Garner talks to Ian McEwan, the black magician of contemporary fiction, about mortality, gossip and his arresting new novel, 'Enduring Love.'

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