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Urgent Lessons From a Heroic Early AIDS Doctor: On the Legacy of Joseph Sonnabend

Urgent Lessons From a Heroic Early AIDS Doctor: On the Legacy of Joseph Sonnabend

Steven W. Thrasher Remembers One of the World’s First AIDS Doctors

By Steven W. Thrasher | April 24, 2025

The Acid Queen: Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the Invisible Woman of Western Psychedelia

The Acid Queen: Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the Invisible Woman of Western Psychedelia

Susannah Cahalan on the Disappearing Acts and Unseen Influences of Timothy Leary’s Wife

By Susannah Cahalan | April 23, 2025

Of Malady and Mortality: Five Books to Read When Your Spouse Is Diagnosed with Cancer

Of Malady and Mortality: Five Books to Read When Your Spouse Is Diagnosed with Cancer

Ariel Gore Recommends Audre Lorde, Barbara Ehrenreich, Teva Harrison, and More

By Ariel Gore | April 21, 2025

Copaganda on the News: On the Crucial Stories the Media Ignores

Copaganda on the News: On the Crucial Stories the Media Ignores

Alec Karakatsanis Calls Out the News Cycle’s Focus on Petty Theft Rather than Its Root Causes

By Alec Karakatsanis | April 18, 2025

How the Child Welfare System Prioritizes Autonomous Family Units, and Punishes Disabled Parents

How the Child Welfare System Prioritizes Autonomous Family Units, and Punishes Disabled Parents

Jessica Slice Explores the Challenges—and Disastrous Consequences—of Parenting in an Ableist System

By Jessica Slice | April 18, 2025

The Body Made Metaphoric: Heather Christle on Losing a Rib and Writing a Memoir

The Body Made Metaphoric: Heather Christle on Losing a Rib and Writing a Memoir

The Author of "In the Rhododendrons" Reflects on Illness, Virginia Woolf, and a Fairytale Deal

By Heather Christle | April 15, 2025

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On Writing the Hospital

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Madeleine Wulfahrt Considers “Small Rain” and the Future of Post-Pandemic Literature of Illness

By Madeleine Wulfahrt | March 20, 2025

Babies Don’t Need to Be Built: Alex Bollen on the Danger of the “Good Mother” Myth

Babies Don’t Need to Be Built: Alex Bollen on the Danger of the “Good Mother” Myth

The Author of “Motherdom” Explores Brain Development, Play, and Why Restrictive Moralizing Hurts All Parents

By Alex Bollen | March 20, 2025

Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Why She Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Why She Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

From the Penguin Classics Collection “Twelve Stories by American Women”

By Literary Hub | March 19, 2025

What Kafka’s Hypochondria Reveals About His Literary and Personal Life

What Kafka’s Hypochondria Reveals About His Literary and Personal Life

Will Rees on the Shared Characteristics Between Health Anxiety and the Writer’s Calling

By Will Rees | March 12, 2025

Unweaving the Web: On Creating Your Own Narrative of Illness and Health

Unweaving the Web: On Creating Your Own Narrative of Illness and Health

Sophie Strand Explores the Limitations of Traditional Ideas About Disease, Trauma and Healing

By Sophie Strand | March 6, 2025

A War Zone Pediatrician on What Comes After the Horrors of a Gaza Emergency Room

A War Zone Pediatrician on What Comes After the Horrors of a Gaza Emergency Room

Dr. Seema Jilani Reckons with the Hypocrisy of Western Liberal Institutions

By Seema Jilani | March 5, 2025

Matters of the Heart: On Daily Life With a Defective Yet Vital Organ

Matters of the Heart: On Daily Life With a Defective Yet Vital Organ

Jeffrey L. Kosky: "My heart was defecting—as if it were not really mine—and the defector threatened to tear me apart."

By Jeffrey L. Kosky | February 26, 2025

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