Mental Superpowers delete from Anthony Ramos

from Anthony Ramos

Featuring a murderer’s row of 21st-century writers and thinkers—including Andrea Long Chu

and reporting and commentary from Jewish Currents staff and contributors

you’ll peek inside their cozy homes and learn about their favorite foods

Plus photography from Dario Catellani

Mental Superpowers delete from Anthony RamosLady GaGa, Diane Arbus, Vincent van Gogh, Kurt Cobain the list of geniuses with mental health issues is long and well known. But how do the two relate to one another? Or, to rephrase the question, can a mental illness also be seen as a superpower? To answer this question Jan Hoek spent three months living in a psychiatric hospital in Brooklyn, collaborating with the hospitals clients and other unique individuals he met in New York. This comic book,