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Writer, editor, educator (previously: @Curbed @PublicGoodNews), author of YA novel THIS IS HOW I FIND HER.
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To See Beyond: Essays

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By Sara Polsky Verified
| Washington Independent Review of Books Verified
The first sentence of Anna Badkhen’s To See Beyondis a stark question: “Seeing beauty amid depravity seems a tall order, but how else will we survive our own history of violence?” Her essay collection is peppered with similarly urgent queries and declarations, all meant to call our attention back to each other and to the natural world.
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Lingering in the Uncertainty in “Field Guide to Falling Ill”

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By Sara Polsky Verified
| Chicago Review of Books Verified
The first essay in Jonathan Gleason’s Field Guide to Falling Ill tells the story of his second cousins, two of his mother’s cousin’s children who died in early childhood of Tay-Sachs disease. Dr. Bernard Sachs, the neurologist who first noticed the symptoms of the disease in children in late-nineteenth-century New York, did not know how to treat it. “The families of the children he treated had come to him for help, for a cure, for relief,” Gleason writes.
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Caroline Crampton’s A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria

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By Sara Polsky Verified
| The Brooklyn Rail Verified
Caroline Crampton A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria (Ecco, 2024) Toward the end of her hybrid memoir and history of hypochondria, A Body Made of Glass, Caroline Crampton describes the condition as “an enormous pendulum.” The image represents hypochondria’s swing over the centuries from a solely bodily condition to a mind-body issue to a purely mental state.
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