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

Tear Down This Statue

Richard Kreitner, July 6

X-Rated Men

Jeffrey Arlo Brown

Of twinks and the men who love to exploit them.

Death, Disembodied

Ann Neumann

Notes on the end of funerals.

Online

From Ellen Degeneres’s Most Distressing Guest to Equally Distressing Insta-star: The Rise and Rise of a Young Gorgon

Lily Watson

Short fiction by Lily Watson.

No Safe Haven

Leo Schwartz

Two books consider how U.S. policy ravages the Northern Triangle.

Out for Blood

Benjamin Weil

On bids to reform blood donation policy for men who have sex with men.

State of the Art

Josh Gabert-Doyon

Canada’s lucrative animation industry is hollowing out an art form

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