THE SULLIVANIANS: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune, by Alexander StilleLegal marijuana notwithstanding, true New Yorkers have long prided themselves on resisting certain Californish things. Denial: It’s not just a river in Egypt that’s much bigger than the Hudson. It’s also one of those slightly antiquated pop-psychology terms, like paranoia and transference, that used to get passed around cultured Manhattan living rooms along with glasses of Riunite and overchilled Brie on Triscuits. No one called it therapy, that soft millennial word. Like a hawk crouching on a grotesque at the fabled Apthorp building, which also makes a cameo in this tale, he gives us a keen bird’s-eye view.

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Persons: Alexander Stille, Alexander Stille’s, isn’t, It’s, overchilled Brie Organizations: Columbia University Locations: American Commune, Manhattan, Egypt, Triscuits