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Migration

Two girls stand in Lviv, Ukraine wearing traditional Ukrainian blouses and wrapped in the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag

Ukrainian Culture as Medicine

by Lillian Posner

Six books and movies to soothe the heartbreak of the war in Ukraine

Governance

A woman reads a book at the Shinjuku branch of Book and Bed, an accommodation combined with book cafe where guests can sleep in hidden bunks built into a large bookshelf, during a photo opportunity in Tokyo, Japan September 14, 2018.

Best Books of 2021

by Caroline Kantis

Our top fifteen favorite reads of the year

Attitudes toward leprosy are represented in this watercolor commissioned by Henry S. Wellcome around 1912 from Richard Cooper, a graphic artist known for his advertisements for the London Underground. Painting shows people scrambling to get away from a leper who strolls by, ringing a bell. In their haste, the crowd has left an infant on the roadside. CC-BY 4.0 from Wellcome Collection.

Environment

“Less a Leper Than I Have Been”

by Christopher Lee Manes

Book of documentary poetry recalls Louisiana's Carville Hospital and early 20th century experience of leprosy in America