Women around the world have been put at risk due to a common—and non-essential—surgical procedure known as morcellation. Alison Motluk tells the story of a husband and wife, both Harvard doctors, who were forced to campaign against their own institutions to try to ban the procedure as one of them fought for their life. 

Rhiannon Russell investigates the lack of support for Yukon residents with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

Vesna Plazacic returns to Bosnia twenty years after the war and finds a hopelessness gripping the country’s youth. 

Fariha Roísín on the silencing of Muslim feminists.

Kate Sloan looks at how science clashes with lived experience in the heated debate over female ejaculation.

Tessa Brunton dishes on the healing powers of hot sex in a new comic essay.

Scaachi Koul and Naomi Skwarna discuss the barriers to living the good life. 

Kiva Reardon reviews Sophie Deraspe’s The Amina Profile. 

LeeAndra Cianci, Nicola Hamilton & Christie Vuong play with pizza.

Deborah Ostrovsky is overwhelmed by tiny French children. 

Plus new fiction by Jowita Bydlowska, poetry from Derek Webster, the Book Room, the Music Room and more!