This month you might notice something a little different about the Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs. For October, instead of the personal stories about health care that readers typically ...

In conjunction with the October issue of Health Affairs, which will focus on disability and health, the Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs is holding a poetry contest. The poetry contest will ...

‘Tam o’ Shanter’ first appeared as a lengthy footnote in Francis Grose's Antiquities of Scotland (1791) after Robert Burns convinced Grose to include the ruined Alloway Kirk in his volume, and its ...

Justine Kurland, “Family Portrait at Family Campground” (2009) (all images courtesy the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash) The following email exchange with the photographer Justine Kurland focuses on ...

Narrative means story. So a narrative poem is a poem that tells a story. There is often no narrative in poetry because poems are generally about thoughts or emotions, rather than stories. But in a ...