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The Truth About Whole-Body MRI Scans for Cancer

For most of human history, a cancer diagnosis was a death sentence. Doctors could only identify cancer after it had spread extensively. Even with aggressive surgery, cancer recurred and eventually a cancer-related complication – a blood clot, infection, or organ failure – killed the patient. Research into the mechanisms of cancer has given us options…

Vigil by George Saunders

I’ll be honest: I was not able to finish Lincoln in the Bardo, the famous novel by Saunders that stars Lincoln’s deceased son in limbo. I promise I tried; the image that Saunders painted of Lincoln embracing his son’s body is still stuck in my mind. What a haunting image of one of the few…

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

One of the most hyped books of the year – and a debut novel – Yesteryear delivers a two-tone narrative: a survival thriller paired with an acerbic cultural exposé. The conceit of the novel is this pearl: a tradwife goes back in time to the 1800s and must survive the nightmarish struggle she pretended to…

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