On this week’s Front Table, enter a story of art, obsession, and mind-sharing technology; follow a Harvard senior as she teeters between reinvention and collapse in a country that offers her no legal future; and witness a therapist’s deep dive into the misunderstood world of borderline personality disorder. Trace the hidden roots of American capitalism through the rise of multilevel marketing, reflect on ancient philosophies for surviving ecological catastrophe, and descend into Earth’s crust to meet the alien microbes thriving in its most extreme depths. Finally, lose yourself in a haunting, hallucinatory tale of desire and devastation as a frozen apocalypse inches ever closer.
