In this edition, we recommend stories from Eli Saslow, Mitchell S. Jackson, Adam Ciralsky, Heidi Lasher, and Noah Rawlings.
Search results
Posted inFeature
Insatiable: A Life Without Eating
When my Crohn’s disease took away food, it took what it means to be human.
Posted inNewsletter
An Autism Diagnosis at 35, and Our Top 5 Reads
“Finally bearing witness to my own life has been significantly more healing than medications or therapy. Every prescribed medication has had unendurable side effects. Therapy gives me brutal anxiety. But that’s okay. I’m finding peace just by envisioning myself through a forgiving lens.” Welcome to the weekend! April is Autism Awareness Month, so this week, […]
Posted inFeature
You and Me and QVC
How a home shopping channel became the soundtrack to a friendship.
Posted inFeature
A Vaccine Dispute Turns Deadly
Misinformation’s tragic toll on one California family.
Posted inReading List
Knife Insurance: An Extreme Surgery Reading List
Never before have so many people sought medical intervention to address their insecurities—and never before has that intervention gone to such lengths.
Posted inFeature
Well Without Water
Haunted by a running tap in prison, a man grows obsessed with water waste and climate change, pushing him to the edge.
Posted inFeature
What Is a Body For?
One desire felt like it would make me more of who I already was, and the other would unmake me entirely.
Posted inFeature
Present Tense: The Long Shadow of an Eating Disorder
Eating disorders never truly go away. They just go quiet. For a while.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Scourge of Worker Wellness Programs
“The rise of the worker wellness program, along with the visceral backlash to it, has revealed the limits and small humiliations of this neoliberal approach to health care. It offers, in implicit contrast, an argument for a more humane strengthening of the social safety net—while demanding a collective worker-based response to the various ways employers […]
