Fiction

The Absolved

Fiction by Matthew Binder November 29, 2018

The man’s cheeks are so hollow and gaunt that the yellow skin on his face hangs off them like dead weight. When he gasps for breath, I notice that there are more teeth missing than not.

Health

Lives

All Words Fly

By Sara Nović August 21, 2018

On finding the language to mourn.

Family & RelationshipsHealthHistory

Interview

Porochista Khakpour: Bodily Chaos

By Hillary Brenhouse June 13, 2018

The author on her new memoir, SICK; searching for home; and her struggle to be heard by the medical establishment.

Bodies & NatureGenderHealth

Review

A Case for the Mental Health Memoir

By Charlotte Lieberman December 19, 2017

First-person testimonies are providing a vocabulary for mental illness that is honest and destigmatizing.

HealthLit World

EssayLives

Black Girl Going Mad

By Rivers Solomon December 4, 2017

Mental health, race, and trauma in the city of Good Christian Bitches.

HealthRace

Interview

Dr. Michael Fine: Crony Capitalism Is Bad for Your Health

By Ariel Lewiton October 5, 2017

The physician and reformer on how the market-based healthcare system makes Americans sick, and his plan to fix what ails us.

Health

Report

The Fallout

By Lacy M. Johnson July 10, 2017

In St. Louis, America's nuclear history creeps into the present, leaching into streams and bodies.

Climate & EnvironmentHealthJustice

Interview

Marcel Dicke: It’s Just a Matter of Time before Americans Eat Insects

By Amy Wright June 2, 2017

Probing the possibility of insects for dinner with the entomologist and author.

Climate & EnvironmentHealth

Interview

Siri Hustvedt: Both Sides of the Chasm

By Meara Sharma April 3, 2017

The novelist and science writer on gender in publishing, the pleasures of neuroscience, and the necessity of rage.

Arts & CultureHealth

Commentary

The Children’s Hour, Theatre Rhinoceros, 1986

By Kim Todd March 13, 2017

Finding parallel AIDS educations in a theatre.

Health

Lives

Mirror Pain

By Jessie Male March 7, 2017

A daughter reflects on her mother’s life with polio

Family & RelationshipsHealth