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Illustration by Lauren Simkin Berke

Mutations

By Raj Telhan, Illustrations by Lauren Simkin Berke

Fall 2021

Is it possible to understand the persistent lag in vaccination rates as a function of failed metaphor? That is to say, as a failure of language—the language of data, the language of science, the language of political rhetoric (to name just a few vocabularies)—to meet individuals at their particular coordinates on the social map? The virus and our national response to it has been figured and refigured.

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Healing Thyself

By Lenore Myka, Illustrations by Christopher DeLorenzo

Fall 2021

English is a treasure trove of words, each with a precise meaning. It is also a source of confusion and frustration, since so many of those words have subtle connotations and refuse to stand still.

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Illustration by Deb Lucke

Hoofbeat Healing

By Deb Lucke

Spring 2021

Physical therapist Karen "Kay" Stanley-White heals people in an unusual way—by putting them on a horse. Sometimes she puts them on backward. All with the goal of improving function in those with movement disorders or injuries. 

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Good for You

By Scott Korb

Winter 2016

My wife and I, both in our late thirties, have a friend named Patricia who lives by herself in a very small apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Her taste is Japanese. Patricia is the mother of another good friend, a woman more or less our age [...]

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To Hygeia

By David Mason

Winter 2016

Goddess, I have watched your motions gratify the world.
Votaries of all casts and ages, genders, voices
bow to you as they must, for nothing follows without you.

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