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Have We Always Been Depressed?

Have We Always Been Depressed?

Yes. The Answer is Yes.

By Lynne Segal | November 29, 2017

Finding Solace in Bookstores, in the Face of Cancer

Finding Solace in Bookstores, in the Face of Cancer

Mary Ladd on the Pleasure of Being Surrounded By Literature

By Mary Ladd | November 7, 2017

The Food Writer Who Lost Her Sense of Smell

The Food Writer Who Lost Her Sense of Smell

Sofia Perez on Losing One of the Things That Mattered Most to Her

By Sofia Perez | November 2, 2017

First-Person Stories of the Body Are Much More Than Clickbait

First-Person Stories of the Body Are Much More Than Clickbait

In Praise of Narrative Medicine

By M. Sophia Newman | October 26, 2017

A Stroke Made My Mother a Poet, I Merely Transcribed

A Stroke Made My Mother a Poet, I Merely Transcribed

For Freeman's Marius Chivu on the Origins of His First Poem

By Marius Chivu | October 19, 2017

Do Even Happy People Cheat?

Do Even Happy People Cheat?

Esther Perel on Mining the Meaning of Affairs

By Esther Perel | October 13, 2017

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Why Does Literature Have So Little to Say About Illness?

By Meghan O'Rourke | October 5, 2017

11 Ways of Looking at Pleasure

By Alex Lemon | September 14, 2017

When Your Therapist Leaves for Summer Vacation

By Cree LeFavour | August 2, 2017

Field Notes From My Dementia

Field Notes From My Dementia

Gerda Saunders on Iris Murdoch, Memory Loss, and Leaving a Record

By Gerda Saunders | June 22, 2017

The Mysteries of the Pancreas: Of the Body, Cancer, and Death

The Mysteries of the Pancreas: Of the Body, Cancer, and Death

"When I learned my mother had pancreatic cancer, I was insufficiently fazed."

By Wendy Call | June 15, 2017

Boxing Through Trauma During the Afghan Civil War

Boxing Through Trauma During the Afghan Civil War

“The doctor said I had seen too many bad things”

By Qais Akbar Omar | May 11, 2017

Growing Up in Maine's

Growing Up in Maine's "Cancer Valley"

Kerri Arsenault Living in the Shadow of a Smoke-Spouting Paper Mill

By Kerri Arsenault | April 12, 2017

Outrunning Eshu: On Finally Seeking Treatment for Depression

Outrunning Eshu: On Finally Seeking Treatment for Depression

"All those years of muscling. Did it make me a better person?"

By Kim McLarin | April 7, 2017

Walt Whitman's Manly Advice on Travel, Boxing, and Food

Walt Whitman's Manly Advice on Travel, Boxing, and Food

"Manly health! Is there not a kind of fascinating magic in the words?"

By Walt Whitman | April 6, 2017

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

Paul Bloom

By Lit Hub Excerpts | December 27, 2016

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