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The Secret Spies Keeping Baghdad Safe

By Lindsey Hilsum

Charting the Land of Great Loneliness

By Carin Clevidence

Estranged Modernisms

By Spencer Lee-Lenfield

Earthlings

By Jeff VanderMeer

Eula Biss

Eula Biss is the author of On Immunity: An Inoculation, Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and The Balloonists. Her essays have appeared in The Believer and Harper’s. She teaches at Northwestern University and lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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Medicine and Its Metaphors

By Eula Biss September 2, 2014

A mother confronts the waning paternalism of doctors and comes to terms with needing the care of others.

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