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Detail from the cover of Sick by Porochista Khakpour.

Issue #65: June/July 2018
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PS Picks: Porochista Khakpour’s Unflinchingly Honest New Memoir

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Angela Serratore

Social Justice

‘This Book Kept Me Alive’: A Conversation With Porochista Khakpour

The novelist discusses her new memoir about living with Lyme, being a refugee, and the search for home.

Leah Angstman

A picture taken at the French National Institute of Agricultural Research shows a tick, whose bite can transmit the Lyme disease.

Environment

Climate Change Is Causing a Dangerous Uptick in Cases of Lyme Disease

Ticks that carry the pathogenic bacteria can now survive in environments where they previously would've frozen to death, resulting in an increased risk of infection.

Gabriela Serrato Marks