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Cancer

The Specter at the Feast

by Xi Xi,

From Mourning a Breast, which was published in July by New York Review Books. Translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley. Every fall, my friends and I get together to…

Ithaca

by Will Self,

Rewriting my mother's diaries

New Books

by Dan Piepenbring,

Because I’ve written about government conspiracies, I sometimes hear from crazy people. “Only the intervention of AI can stop Man from creating Hell cybernetically,” one wrote recently. “It would be…

Lawn & Order

From a Michigan court hearing regarding a citation for an unkempt property, which was held on Zoom in January. judge: All right. You have a ticket for failing to keep…

The Cancer Chair

by Christian Wiman,

Is suffering meaningless?

States of Decay

by Ben Mauk,

A journey through America’s nuclear heartland

Eat, Memory

by David Wong Louie,

A life without food

No More Me

by Jenny Diski,

By Jenny Diski, from her Twitter feed. Diski, a contributor to Harper’s Magazine, was the author of ten novels and eight works of non-fiction, including In Gratitude, a memoir about…

Starving Your Way to Vigor

by Steve Hendricks,

The benefits of an empty stomach

American Vespers

by Earl Shorris,

The ebbing of the body politic

Speak, malady

by Adam Baer,

An autobiography of cancer