When Mary Mallon cooked, people became ill and sometimes died. Health officials came after her repeatedly, and repeatedly she tried to escape.
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Green-Wood Cemetery’s Living Dead
How the “forever business” is changing at New York City’s biggest graveyard.
The Radical Development of an Entirely New Painkiller
The opioid crisis has made it even more urgent to come up with novel approaches to treating suffering. Finally there’s something effective.
The Meatpacking District Packs It In
As the market prepares to vacate the West Village, a veteran meatpacker recalls the area in the days of fat-slicked cobblestones, before the Whitney and the High Line.
“Fairy Pools”
There is an exchange, she thought. Something passes between this life and the next that allows you to be here for a while.
Justice David Souter Was the Antithesis of the Present
His jurisprudence has been overshadowed by that of his showier colleagues but was a model of principled restraint.
Dept. of Psychopharmacology
This Is Your Priest on Drugs
Dozens of religious leaders experienced magic mushrooms in a university study. Many are now evangelists for psychedelics.
Why Do Doctors Write?
For physicians, curiosity and care spill easily onto the page.
Chicken, Egg, Sharpie, Handcuffs
A subway-platform poster for the School of Visual Arts was trying to stimulate discussion about A.I. One commuter engaged, and got locked up.
Returning to the Scene of My Brutal Rape
By the canal, I felt an overwhelming and visceral sense that I had stumbled upon the place where a man had raped me at knifepoint forty years earlier.
Alba de Céspedes’s Broadcasts Against Fascism
During the Second World War, the Italian writer took to the radio, urging resistance to the pressures of tyranny.
Escape from Khartoum
A family of nine’s desperate attempt to find safety in Sudan.
The Radical Courage of Noor Abdalla
How the wife of Mahmoud Khalil has navigated becoming a new mother while fighting for her husband’s freedom.