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Leslie Jamison

Leslie Jamison is the author of Make It Scream, Make It Burn; The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath; and The Empathy Exams.
  • Photograph courtesy of Dean Gillispie / MoMA PS1

    The Breathtaking Ingenuity of Incarcerated Artists

    How tea bags, cigarette foil, bedsheets, and more can turn into a masterpiece

    • Leslie Jamison
    • March 2021 Issue
  • Donald Judd, 100 untitled works in mill aluminum, …

    The Minimalist Who Wasn’t

    I always thought Donald Judd’s work was intimidatingly austere, until I discovered the plenitude at its core.

    • Leslie Jamison
    • October 2020 Issue
  • Elizabeth Bick

    The Photographs That Made Me Feel Less Alone

    Garry Winogrand captured ordinary groups of unknown people in all their beauty, humanity, and radiance.

    • Leslie Jamison
    • December 2019 Issue
  • Hannah Whitaker

    The Quickening

    A story of two births

    • Leslie Jamison
    • September 2019 Issue
  • Bridgette McNeal

    The Digital Ruins of a Forgotten Future

    Second Life was supposed to be the future of the internet, but then Facebook came along. Yet many people still spend hours each day inhabiting this virtual realm. Their stories—and the world they’ve built—illuminate the promise and limitations of online life.

    • Leslie Jamison
    • December 2017 Issue
  • Andre Da Loba

    Enough About Me

    In an era of chronic self-exposure, authors are pushing back against naked revelation.

    • Leslie Jamison
    • April 2015 Issue
  • Clay Rodery

    The Power of Grace

    For Marilynne Robinson, who has been called America’s George Eliot, loss and loneliness do not rule out solace.

    • Leslie Jamison
    • October 2014 Issue
  • Damian Gadal/flickr

    Effort Is Not the Enemy of Compassion

    My time acting the part of a patient to teach medical students, and then becoming a real patient myself, taught me the nature of learning empathy.

    • Leslie Jamison
    • April 8, 2014
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