How Tuner transforms disability into a cinematic superpower

This podcast explores tuberculosis’ impact on opera, focusing on La Traviata and La Bohème, examining medical and cultural influences.

A memoir traces grief, identity, and love through food, memory, and cultural inheritance.

A neurosurgeon reflects on triumphs, failures, mortality, and compassion through decades of brain surgery.

A conversation with the author about today’s psychedelic renaissance 

George Tooker’s haunting painting reveals anonymity, isolation, and powerlessness within institutional waiting spaces.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s haunting tale exposes patriarchal medicine, isolation, and psychological collapse through symbolism.

The film highlights the peril of love that demands possession.

An exploration of gender identity, transformation, courage, and the lifelong search for authentic selfhood.

Lucy Grealy links childhood cancer, disfigurement, and the complex, fragile search for identity in her poignant memoir.

A solitary figure confronts distance and memory in a haunting landscape of home, absence, and emotional isolation themes

A fascinating journey through Philadelphia’s historic Pennsylvania Hospital Museum reveals the origins of American medicine today.

A confessional masterpiece depicting mental isolation through striking animal imagery and defiant, indomitable spirit.

A tender summer in 1980s Italy reveals desire, identity, and the unforgettable ache of first love.

A gripping account of the Woburn leukemia cluster and its lasting impact on environmental health, law, and public trust.

Frida Kahlo transforms personal trauma and chronic pain into powerful visual meditations on body, identity, and survival.