From the Magazine

Current issue, No. 52

Unnatural Disasters

Ann Neumann

On the pandemics we make for ourselves

Bill of Health

Adam Gaffney

How market logic hobbles the nation's hospitals

The Empire of All Maladies

Nick Estes

Colonial contagions and Indigenous resistance

The American Way of Death

Daniel Fernandez, July 22

Mirror on Mirror

Stephanie Burt

Two parallel women, millennia apart, whose carefully acquired beauty made them patriarchy’s ideal targets.

Crossed Wires

Sanket Jain

Government e-learning programs lay bare India's digital divide.

Online

Space Detective

Eugene Lim

A new short story by Eugene Lim.

Nursing the Nation

Rivkah Brown

Britain claps for nurses while capping their pay.

Lab Rats

Erica X Eisen

The quest to privatize clinical labs threatens public health.

Game Face

James Wham

A new collection of Olympic films tries to skip the politics.

Poems

Say Each Day Your Body Wakes Another Body

Robert Fanning

opens inside of you. First fissure, then split, then spread: this body
unfurling thick and heavy-headed as a peony, as. . .

A Conversation Between Women

Jennifer Chang

My friend, who lost her husband
twice, first in death
and then in betrayal, orders
the pinot noir.

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From the Magazine

Current issue, No. 52

On the pandemics we make for ourselves

How market logic hobbles the nation's hospitals

Colonial contagions and Indigenous resistance

Online

Poems

Fiction

Online

Online

Poems

Fiction