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Literature

An excerpt from the award-winning author’s new novel

March 11, 2024 • by Sigrid Nunez

In an excerpt from The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez, a writer contemplates the first spring of the COVID-19 pandemic....

Body & Mind

In The Vulnerables, Sigrid Nunez elegizes what we don’t remember

March 11, 2024 • by Chloe Cheimets

Whether we remember them or not, the details of life still drive our lingering emotions. ...

Body & Mind

Dead Weight by Emmeline Clein conveys the simple terror and intoxicating asceticism of anorexia

March 4, 2024 • by Josephine Houman

“I watched my body shrink in the mirror,” Clein writes, “proud to discover how powerful my mind was.” I know the feeling....

Kinships

Living with wrongdoing

February 21, 2024 • by Helga Varden

Hope for the future is only possible if we choose peace by stopping the killing and resist the temptation of avenging heroism....

Disability

Wilderness, Urban Landscapes, and Biocapacity

In an excerpt from The Architecture of Disability, the author considers the performance of disability in so-called “nature”

October 25, 2023 • by David Gissen

Challenging the physical inaccessibility of national parks might be reimagined as an opportunity to demonstrate the artifice of American nature more broadly. If disability rights are ultimately human rights, then the ideas presented here suggest new, unimagined alliances....

Wilderness, Urban Landscapes, and Biocapacity

Disability

Against Technoableism

In an excerpt from her new book, Ashley Shew rethinks who needs improvement

October 24, 2023 • by Ashley Shew

It should go without saying that we need to center disabled people as experts about disability and technology. Yet if we do, we really trouble some underlying assumptions of the ableist world we’re in. In its simplest definition, ableism is bias or discrimination against disabled people or stigma against the ...

Body & Mind

Health Care Monopolies Strike Back

Three ways big health care systems are fighting new rules and antitrust scrutiny

May 15, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

It looks to me like a case of UNC Health is reading the writing on the wall and trying to get ahead of either court cases that could harm its future power....

Public Health

After We Wash Our Hands, What Do We Do Next?

The racist structure of international relations condemns countries like Haiti to cycles of epidemics

May 3, 2023 • by Guilberly Louissaint

Guilberly Louissaint writes about the the racist structure of international relations that condemns countries like Haiti to epidemics....

After We Wash Our Hands, What Do We Do Next?

Health care

Science and the COVID Epidemic in India

“The past as mnemonic and footnote always tempers our sense of innovation in science policy”

May 2, 2023 • by Chandrika Parmar and Shiv Visvanathan

Lockdowns reflect the arbitrariness of the state, an absence of sociological literacy about urban-rural differences, a sense of management as control without the nuances of social science that the diversity of India desperately needs....

Sports

Inside the Sports Subsidy Industrial Complex

Phony numbers, huge conflicts of interest, and bad journalism

May 1, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

And that’s the crux of it: stadium boosters always trot out these outlandish economic impact studies to justify taxpayer investments that never pay off....

Inside the Sports Subsidy Industrial Complex

Body & Mind

When Medicine Turns Capital

An interview with physician Victor Roy on his newly released book Capitalizing a Cure

April 17, 2023 • by Victor Roy and Emma Pirnay

Emma Pirnay interviews Victor Roy about his newly released book, Capitalizing a Cure and uncovering the capitalized pharmaceutical industry....

Body & Mind

Aging Can Bring Wisdom or Not—It Depends on How You Live Your Life

A dancer’s perspective

April 17, 2023 • by Jan Erkert

Growing older is a constant dance between how we feel about our age, how we judge other people, and how we are perceived by others....

Body & Mind

“A vulnerable, she called me”

An excerpt from the award-winning author’s new novel

Forget This Book

In The Vulnerables, Sigrid Nunez elegizes what we don’t remember

The Hunger Artist

Dead Weight by Emmeline Clein conveys the simple terror and intoxicating asceticism of anorexia

Traumatized Heroes

Living with wrongdoing

Wilderness, Urban Landscapes, and Biocapacity

In an excerpt from The Architecture of Disability, the author considers the performance of disability in so-called “nature”

Against Technoableism

In an excerpt from her new book, Ashley Shew rethinks who needs improvement

Health Care Monopolies Strike Back

Three ways big health care systems are fighting new rules and antitrust scrutiny

After We Wash Our Hands, What Do We Do Next?

The racist structure of international relations condemns countries like Haiti to cycles of epidemics

Science and the COVID Epidemic in India

“The past as mnemonic and footnote always tempers our sense of innovation in science policy”

Inside the Sports Subsidy Industrial Complex

Phony numbers, huge conflicts of interest, and bad journalism

When Medicine Turns Capital

An interview with physician Victor Roy on his newly released book Capitalizing a Cure

Aging Can Bring Wisdom or Not—It Depends on How You Live Your Life

A dancer’s perspective

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