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Biohacking Pain: On Leigh Cowart’s “Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose”
Why do some of us embrace — even pursue — painful experiences?
Rhoda Feng
Rhoda Feng is an editor at LARB and a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Artforum, The TLS, The New Republic, The New York Times, Frieze, Vogue, The Baffler, 4Columns, The Boston Globe, and more.