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Talking to Myself: How Dictation Software Helped Me Navigate Pandemic Pain

Talking to Myself: How Dictation Software Helped Me Navigate Pandemic Pain

From Leonardo da Vinci to Zadie Smith, Kim Beil on the Many Ways to Get Words on the Page

By Kim Beil | April 20, 2022

Reckoning with the History of Medical Racism: A Reading List

Reckoning with the History of Medical Racism: A Reading List

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Recommends Books That Spotlight the Colonization and Control of Black Bodies

By Dolen Perkins-Valdez | April 20, 2022

How Did Shakespeare Kill (And Heal) His Characters?

How Did Shakespeare Kill (And Heal) His Characters?

Kathryn Harkup on the Many Ways To Live and Die on the Elizabethan Stage

By Kathryn Harkup | April 19, 2022

What Does It Mean to Understand Pain?

What Does It Mean to Understand Pain?

Haider Warraich Considers the Complexity and Meanings of Chronic Pain

By Haider Warraich | April 19, 2022

<em>SEX SEX SEX</em>: Why We’re Not Having It and Why That’s Bad

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Christine Emba in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | April 15, 2022

How a Group of Concerned Citizens Sued the Government For Poisoning Them

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Elena Conis on The Origins of the Fight Against DDT

By Elena Conis | April 15, 2022

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Against (the Very Idea of) Procrastination

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Chinese writers combat pandemic boredom by remixing Western literary classics.

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Why Sex Scenes Are Not Only Feminist, But Necessary

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Is There an Inherent Connection Between Sadness and Art-Making?

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From Beethoven to Leonard Cohen, Susan Cain Wonders About Melancholy and Creativity

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How Racial Bias Facilitated the US Child Welfare System’s Targeting of Black Communities

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Dorothy Roberts on the Policing of Black Families

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Why is Being Single and Child-Free So Threatening to Society?

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Aimée Lutkin on Letting Go of the Nuclear Family Model

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What a Country’s Demographic Age Can Tell Us About Its Future

What a Country’s Demographic Age Can Tell Us About Its Future

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Profile of a Philanderer: What Kind of Man Becomes a Cheating Husband?

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