Three Ways to Disappear
A visual essay on living with cancer
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Postcards from the Edge of the World
Death and stamps in Port Lockroy, Antarctica’s penguin-ridden post office
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Sick Soldiers
A veteran with PTSD describes war’s invisible wounds
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The Blacksmith
Hipolito the blacksmith is moved by the drama of Tomás’s twelve afflicted horses and goes into tender, lengthy details about how the lice powder should be mixed with warm water, …
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The League of Extraordinary Assholes
There’s a jerk in every room. Is it you?
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Doctors without Science
A brief history of quackery, from leeches to ostrich eggs
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Summer of ’65
What training camp looked like in the glory days of the Toronto Maple Leafs
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Finding Winnie
Everyone’s favourite bear goes to war
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The Kind of Feminist Who . . .
Bad is a relative term
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When Polio Walked the Earth
Notes on a forgotten disease
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