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This week on The Baffler online we featured a meditation on the inner lives of the cells in the human body, by Barbara Ehrenreich. Cells are living things, after all, tiny animals. What are their lives like? "What's in this for the macrophages, which by enabling metastasis seal their own doom?" Ehrenreich wonders. "Or for that matter, what's in it for the cancer cells, which will die along with the organism they destroy?"
Last week we highlighted another beautiful essay, by Suzy Hansen, entitled "America's Long Holiday: When narcissism attacks." Hansen reviews Elizabeth Lunbeck's book about the history of narcissism, offers an alternate reading of the work of Christopher Lasch, and in the process, reminds readers why this all-American set of ideas has traditionally been so appealing.
We hope you enjoy these, and some of the other selections you may have missed on The Baffler website, below.
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