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Surgery

Letterman

by Will Self,

The surgeon who signed his work

In the Net

For years, Michael Ransford had known he would need surgery for his umbilical hernia. “People said if it ruptured, it could kill me,” the sixty-year-old farmer told me. The pain…

Notes on a Crisis

by Janine di Giovanni,

A battle to restore my vision

Before I Sleep

by Henry Marsh,

By Henry Marsh, from Admissions, a memoir about his life as a neurosurgeon. The book was published in October by St. Martin’s Press. Marsh is the author of Do No Harm.

Monumental Error

by J. C. Hallman,

Will New York City finally tear down a statue?

Aspirational Brand

From a patient guide to the AspireAssist, a weight-loss device that was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in June.

From nicknames given to participants on Let Me In, a South Korean reality-television show, in which a panel of beauty experts approves contestants for a plastic-surgery makeover. The nicknames describe…

In the Republic

by Anonymous,

Photographs from Iran

Double zoo

by Roland Barthes,Translated by Andrew Brown,

One in the hand

by Harper’s Staff,

The Special Child

by Mark Richard,

Surgery

Letterman

In the Net

Notes on a Crisis

Before I Sleep

Monumental Error

Aspirational Brand

Pretty Hurts

In the Republic

Double zoo

One in the hand

The Special Child

Debug

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Letterman

In the Net

Notes on a Crisis

Before I Sleep

Monumental Error

Aspirational Brand

Pretty Hurts

In the Republic

Double zoo

One in the hand

The Special Child

February 2011

Debug