Maylis de Kerangal’s Réparer les vivants, beautifully translated into English by Sam Taylor and published as The Heart, has been something of a publishing sensation in France, and beyond. I am ...
Lawrence Cohen
Lawrence Cohen is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His work includes writing on organ transplantation across borders (“Migrant Supplementarity,” 2011) and on postwar social science (“Making Peasants Protestant,” 2013). His current research examines the creation of a national biometric ID in India designed to limit corruption. 
Oliver’s Body
Some autism spectrum and disability activists have turned, in an age in which Asperger syndrome has come to describe Silicon Valley’s new normal, to a figure of the neuroqueer.1 If queerness came, by ...