The Noonday Demon is reviewd in the New York Times by Joyce Carol Oates. Her review is titled "Im Not Ok, You're Not Ok.

If illness is a foreign country, mental illness is a yet more foreign country, one with a special stigma. No one takes pride in visiting this country with its imprecise, ever shifting borders and murky language; its frequent mimicry, as in nightmare parody, of ''normal'' behavior; its myriad terrifying symptoms that seem, to the healthy, simply ''all in the head.'' Our common-sense culture can generously accommodate physically ill individuals, but the mentally ill can be suspected of exaggerating, even of imagining, their own problems. Their minds, or brains, must have ''caused'' their ailments, since we have only the testimony of the afflicted to bear witness to what is ''ill'' in their lives.

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