"I do not think that the vocation of writer is superior to any other," writes Melissa Febos in her newest essay collection, "but I do believe it is the most useful life for me, the one in which I can ...

Last month, a new book of essays from the “Narrative Matters” section of Health Affairs was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, and is available for purchase from the press, Amazon, and ...

Writing about trauma risks polishing the pain, forcing neat closures, and smoothing out what resists language altogether. It also risks dipping into the cliché or the sensational. So how does a writer ...