Narrative Matters, the personal essay section of Health Affairs, publishes firsthand stories that explore the personal, ethical, and moral issues of delivering or receiving health care—and that carry ...

Narrative essays are completely different from the tasks we get in academia more often. Narratives can be written using personal pronouns. Moreover, you don’t have to spend hours looking for relevant ...

I used to believe I taught the one genre that artificial intelligence couldn’t touch. For 15 years, I’ve guided college students through the deeply human work of personal narrative, helping them ...

In editing these two volumes, George Packer reminds us that the author of the novel 1984 wrote brilliant essays.