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Cursed Fields

by Noah Sneider,

What the tundra has in store for Russia’s reindeer herders

Cattle Calls

by Ted Conover,

The vanishing breed of the country vet

Charles in Charge

by Charles, Prince of Wales,

From letters written by Prince Charles to British officials between 2004 and 2009. The letters, known as the “black-spider memos” because of the prince’s handwriting, were released in May, after…

Diagnose This

by Heidi Julavits,

How to be your own best doctor

Heart Monitor (detail)

by Jennifer Wilkey,

Wild things

by David Samuels,

Animal nature, human racism, and the future of zoos

The writer is gravely ill

by Roberto Bolaño,Translated by Chris Andrews,

Official probe

by Gloria Squitiro,

Contagious Cancer

by David Quammen,

The evolution of a killer

Heart disease

Art by Bratsa Bonifacho,

The rehumanization of the heart

by Charles Siebert,

What doctors have forgotten, poets have always known