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“I’ll be honest, I was a little shocked to recall the plate of bratwurst and mash that I tucked into three days after my husband died,”

Lauren Elkin begins her book about bodily art with a charming ode to the punctuation mark that she in American English calls a ‘slash’ and we in British English call a ‘stroke’. She likes the way it expresses ‘division yet relation’. Brings disparate things together. Makes space for ambiguity. Blends and blurs. And/or. She writes:

Conservative Christians are convinced they have legitimate concerns about the teaching of American history in public schools. They have complained,

Rachel Sturley pored over paintings and archives to analyze how Virginia Woolf and contemporaries conveyed their own physical pain in art and literature.

The 2022 National Book Award finalist recommends works by Susan Sontag, Natasha Trethewey, and more

One question dominates 24-year-old Ravi Veriah Jacques’s thoughts: who will he be after his illness?

From Virginia Woolf to Gary Shteyngart, novelists have struggled to narrativize the long tail of pandemics.

Meghan O’Rourke’s The Invisible Kingdom takes you inside the world of being chronically ill.

“I got sick the way Hemingway says you go broke: ‘gradually and then suddenly,’” Meghan O’Rourke writes in The Invisible Kingdom, describing the beginning of her decades-long struggle with chronic autoimmune disease. 

It was imagined, as you said, in the wake of the jfk assassination and also the illness of dwrooiight eisenhoweo the framer of the amendment was thinking mainly of the president being ill, but they did contemplate the possibility that he might be mentally disabled, and they decided that would be a political judgment by the vice president and members of the cabinet. so thats why section iv says, if the vice president and members of the cabinet by majority vote and say the president is disabled, t...