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Why Is Illness So Hard to Write About?

New Yorker Culture 05 October 2026 12h ago
Why Is Illness So Hard to Write About?
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A century after Virginia Woolf asked why sickness had failed to become one of literature’s great subjects, writers are still struggling to put physical suffering into words.
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