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 ...

This blog post joins an emotionally laden niche genre written by people with long experience as clinicians, health policy researchers, or putative health care experts who describe feeling frustrated, ...

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 ...