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How Being a Writer Helped Me Navigate the American Health Insurance System—and Get My Hands on “Liquid Gold”

How Being a Writer Helped Me Navigate the American Health Insurance System—and Get My Hands on “Liquid Gold”

Emma Smith-Stevens on the High Cost of Her Medical Care and the Cruelty of For-Profit Medicine

By Emma Smith-Stevens | October 20, 2026

Here’s what’s making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | October 16, 2026

My Body Is a Poem: Emily Hyland In Praise of a Poetics of Physicality

My Body Is a Poem: Emily Hyland In Praise of a Poetics of Physicality

“The embodied realm is eager for inquiry, if one is willing and interested.”

By Emily Hyland | October 15, 2026

Who Gets to Have a Baby in America? On the High Cost of Fertility in America

Who Gets to Have a Baby in America? On the High Cost of Fertility in America

“Some argue that fertility care is simply basic healthcare and should be universally accessible.”

By Anna Louie Sussman | September 30, 2026

Elizabeth Alexander on Finding Life in the Second Spring of Middle Age

Elizabeth Alexander on Finding Life in the Second Spring of Middle Age

“I learned many things during my study of dance that have everything to do with the writing of poetry.”

By Elizabeth Alexander | September 25, 2026

Whereof One Cannot Speak: On the Limits of Language to Describe Pain

Whereof One Cannot Speak: On the Limits of Language to Describe Pain

Ed Simon Explores the Incomplete Poetics of Physical Suffering

By Ed Simon | September 21, 2026

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Visiting Helen Keller’s Birthplace While Deaf: What it Means to Navigate Accessibility

Visiting Helen Keller’s Birthplace While Deaf: What it Means to Navigate Accessibility

Rachel Kolb Explores the Contradictions of a Post-ADA World

By Rachel Kolb | September 2, 2026

On Women and The Water Cure: Nine Memoirs About Wild Swimming

On Women and The Water Cure: Nine Memoirs About Wild Swimming

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On Good Fat, Bad Fat, and the Problems With BMI

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By Daniel Lieberman | August 17, 2026

The Toxic Appeal of “Big-Reveal” Content on Social Media

The Toxic Appeal of “Big-Reveal” Content on Social Media

Kathryn Jezer-Morton on Performing Pregnancy the “Right” Way Online

By Kathryn Jezer-Morton | August 10, 2026

Fish Bad, Sugar Good... And Other Medieval Ideas About Food

Fish Bad, Sugar Good... And Other Medieval Ideas About Food

Katherine Harvey on Healthy Living in the Middle Ages

By Katherine Harvey | July 29, 2026

What Happens When the War on Drugs Turns Into a Wellness Fad

What Happens When the War on Drugs Turns Into a Wellness Fad

Kojo Karam on the Industrialization of Psychedelics

By Kojo Koram | July 29, 2026

What Barriers Do Women in Science Face When Trying to Publish?

What Barriers Do Women in Science Face When Trying to Publish?

Jennifer Rubin Grandis on Confronting Systemic Bias in Academic Publishing

By Jennifer Rubin Grandis | July 27, 2026

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