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 ...

Editor's note: This post responds to the April Narrative Matters essay by Gary Epstein-Lubow, a geriatric psychiatrist, which recounts the life-changing stress experienced by relatives who care for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Author Mitchell S. Jackson trains his formidable linguistic skills on his turbulent youth growing up in a poor black community in Portland, Ore.,... The biggest challenge in describing Mitchell S.

Dialogue Books has signed “sensational” narrative about Black women, If We Are Going to Heal, Let It Be Glorious, and essay series The Black Take by activist and film-maker Cat White. UK Commonwealth ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Cusk replied, ‘‘Well, I liked it for long enough.’’ But after a time, she said, she lost faith in the principles of narrative and story ...

In late 1938, still frail after the Spanish Civil War, Orwell went to Morocco and wrote "Marrakech". Faced with a respectful column of colonial troops from Senegal, meekly serving France, he notes – ...

More than three decades of tradition died at the University of California at Santa Cruz this year when faculty voted to require letter grades. Now the last thread of the campus' liberal beginnings is ...