Excerpted from What’s Wrong: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine by Erin Williams. Copyright © 2024 by Erin Williams. Published and reprinted by permission of Abrams ComicArts, a division of ABRAMS. All rights reserved.
What’s Wrong with Me?
Listen My Dear Alones: Notes on Gina Berriault’s ‘Women in Their Beds’
Berriault must have known that good work, the best work, may not always pay the bills, but sometimes, if we’re lucky, it outlasts the counting.
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‘Castle on the River Vistula’: Featured Fiction by Michelle Tea
It took Sophie a few minutes to adjust to the brightness of daytime on earth. Her eyes ached; she could feel them pulse as they struggled to shift from the ocean’s ambient darkness to this violent glare.
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You Can’t Stop Mourning: Featured Poetry by Morgan Parker
Parker's truncated lines often drift into our chests: we’ve been spoken to, and we want to hear more.
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They Are Not Calling to You: Featured Poetry by Paige Ackerson-Kiely
A great second-person poem is narrated both toward us and past us, its words skimming off our shoulders but leaving marks.
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‘Bowlaway’: Featured Fiction from Elizabeth McCracken
What she wanted was a kind of greatness that women were not allowed.
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‘Leading Men’: Featured Fiction by Christopher Castellani
Frank should have told him then and there that he loved him and would never leave him. Not how much he loved him, which was very much, but that he loved him at all.
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Panel Mania: ‘A Fire Story’ by Brian Fies
The Millions is pleased to offer readers a 10-page excerpt from A Fire Story, a work of graphic nonfiction about the devastating wildfire that destroyed 6,200 homes—including that of cartoonist Brian Fies—in Northern California in 2017.
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There’s No One to Witness: Featured Poetry by Edgar Kunz
The poems in this debut are laconic, while remaining fleshy and full.
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