Narrative Matters, the personal essay section of Health Affairs, publishes firsthand stories that explore the personal, ethical, and moral issues of delivering or receiving health care—and that carry ...

I have wondered for nearly 25 years – since the day I started residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital – why the sickest patients with the most complicated social conditions are often cared for by the ...

This collection gathers together many of Pulitzer-winner Dillard’s best-known writings, drawn from eight of her books, as well as one piece previously published in Harper’s Magazine. After witnessing ...

It’s a source of no small irony to read George Orwell’s essays in the closing days of this election season -- although not for the reasons one might expect. Sure, there have been plenty of Orwellian ...

The biggest challenge in describing Mitchell S. Jackson's Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family is whether to be appropriately effusive and risk seeming like I'm in his pay — or to be more ...

Reading "The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New," a heady selection of Annie Dillard's work, is to discover — or rediscover — this magnificent, fiercely attentive writer who wakes up each day ...