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Dealing with the Dead in Japan: On Cleaning Up After the Departed

Dealing with the Dead in Japan: On Cleaning Up After the Departed

Anne Allison Considers the Post-Mortem Care Work of “Keepers”

By Anne Allison | March 10, 2023

My Author Photo Brought Me Face to Face With the Body I Hated

My Author Photo Brought Me Face to Face With the Body I Hated

Kate Brody on Disappearing Into Words to Escape Her Body Dysmorphia

By Kate Brody | March 9, 2023

How Philosophy Attempts—and Often Fails–To Grapple With Experiences of Trauma

How Philosophy Attempts—and Often Fails–To Grapple With Experiences of Trauma

Susan J. Brison on Perceptions of Self in the Wake of Sexual Violence

By Susan J. Brison | March 9, 2023

Jennifer Wright on Madame Restell, Anthony Comstock, and Abortion in the 19th Century

Jennifer Wright on Madame Restell, Anthony Comstock, and Abortion in the 19th Century

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | March 9, 2023

Liz Hoffman on How Government and Corporations Successfully Crash Landed the COVID Economy

Liz Hoffman on How Government and Corporations Successfully Crash Landed the COVID Economy

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 7, 2023

Chris Shipley on How to Empower the Workforce in Our Post-COVID World

Chris Shipley on How to Empower the Workforce in Our Post-COVID World

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 6, 2023

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A Piece of Whalebone, a Butcher’s Shop, a Tailor: The Makings of A Pioneer Abortionist

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Can Friendship Transcend Death? On Missing Your Best Friend

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Steven Kotler on How to Stay “Rad” While Growing Old

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Finding Microjoys Between the Shadows of Grief and Loss

Finding Microjoys Between the Shadows of Grief and Loss

Cyndie Spiegel on a More Complicated Theory of Joy

By Cyndie Spiegel | February 28, 2023

Kathleen McLaughlin on the Plasma Industry Sucking the Blood of the American Poor

Kathleen McLaughlin on the Plasma Industry Sucking the Blood of the American Poor

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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Inside the Emergency Room on the Eve of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Inside the Emergency Room on the Eve of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Farzon A. Nahvi on the Early Days of a Public Health Disaster in the Making

By Farzon A. Nahvi | February 27, 2023

Research I’d Rather Not Have Done: Pandemics Then and Now

Research I’d Rather Not Have Done: Pandemics Then and Now

Lynn Cullen on Dorothy Horstmann, the Woman Behind the Polio Vaccine

By Lynn Cullen | February 24, 2023

“The Miracle Cure.” A Brief History of Lobotomies

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Dr. Jeffrey A. Lieberman on Early Psychosurgery—and Its Impact on the Kennedys and Tennessee Williams

By Jeffrey A. Lieberman | February 21, 2023

Constantine Andriopoulos on Asking the Right Questions to Will Change Our Lives

Constantine Andriopoulos on Asking the Right Questions to Will Change Our Lives

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 21, 2023

Ben Ramalingam on Turning Pressure Into Performance and Crisis Into Creativity

Ben Ramalingam on Turning Pressure Into Performance and Crisis Into Creativity

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