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This morning I read a quote in the paper that got my juices flowing. Dr. Anna DeForest, referring to all of the money Big Pharma spends on lobbying and advertising

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

This bumper sticker isn’t necessarily meant for public health, but “Everyone does better when everyone does better” fits perfectly when we talk about access to healthcare and access to essential

This week, we revisit Lauren’s conversation with physician and writer Laura Kolbe, author of ‘Little Pharma’ (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series), a book that uses poetry as the doctor’s tool into empathy, into the interior lives of patients and beyond the material relationships between bodies.

Ayesha Rascoe talks with Anna DeForest about her debut novel, "A History of Present Illness," and how she drew from her experience as a physician to write about sickness, healing, and loss.

“A History of Present Illness” is a fictional account from a first-time author who is a doctor.

Best films and television of the year and the devastation of cultural life As the year ends, it is not possible to discuss any aspect of artistic life, or life in general, in 2020 without central reference to the COVID-19 pandemic, which the various ruling elites have permitted to ravage the world’s population. In late March, we noted that “the global health and economic calamity” was without precedent. “Whatever the outcome in the short term,” we wrote, “social life and consciousne...