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Posted inEditor's Pick

Slow Death and Labored Breath: Listening To, Listening Through Inheritance

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 7, 2021October 19, 2022

“Remission is life with an asterisk; conditional.”

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

Inking Against Invisibility

by Talia Hibbert January 24, 2020December 30, 2022

In the face of chronic pain, invisible illness, and medical discrimination, Talia Hibbert turned to tatoos to reclaim ownership of her body.

Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Surviving the Shattering of My Mind and My Marriage

by Longreads October 16, 2019January 20, 2023

Andrea J. Buchanan contemplates the way illness and pain can freeze a sufferer in time, as if encased in glass.

Posted inEditor's Pick

In a World Full of Cruelty and Injustice, Becoming a Mother Anyway

by Sari Botton July 26, 2019October 19, 2022

In this personal essay, a visit to Auschwitz makes Eliza Margarita Bates only more determined to have a baby, despite her painful chronic illness.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

In a World Full of Cruelty and Injustice, Becoming a Mother Anyway

by Eliza Margarita Bates July 26, 2019October 19, 2022

A visit to Auschwitz makes Eliza Margarita Bates only more determined to have a baby, despite her painful chronic illness.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

In a World Full of Cruelty and Injustice, Becoming a Mother Anyway

by Eliza Margarita Bates July 26, 2019October 19, 2022

A visit to Auschwitz makes Eliza Margarita Bates only more determined to have a baby, despite her painful chronic illness.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Maybe It’s Lyme: What Happens When Illness Becomes an Identity?

by Sari Botton July 24, 2019October 19, 2022

Molly Fischer dives deep into the growing culture of “chronic Lyme,” a sort of wild West where a proliferation of unconventional approaches to diagnosis and treatment contradict the medical establishment’s contention that, despite some possible lasting symptoms, Lyme is not chronic; and where sufferers find identity and community.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Wrestling With the Ghosts In My Head

by Janet Steen February 8, 2019October 19, 2022

Janet Steen tries to understand the shifting causes behind a decade of mysterious migraine pain.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

The Inward Empire

by christiandonlan June 26, 2018October 19, 2022

A new father with early-stage MS sets out to understand the interiors of his daughter’s mind, and his own.

Posted inEditor's Pick

A New Yorker, and a Sick Person

by Sari Botton June 7, 2018October 19, 2022

In an excerpt from her memoir, Sick, Porochista Khakpour recalls fashioning herself after her artist aunt’s example.

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