Vaccine and Verbs

How To Build A Cancer Vaccine

Abhishaike Mahajan | Seeds Of Science | 2nd September 2026

Primer on the forty-year attempt to create a cancer vaccine. Long considered a "grim field", there are now signs that good results may be on the horizon. Unlike conventional vaccines, which are preventative, the idea is to have something that can nudge the immune system into better action, by injecting a "cancer-flavoured protein" that delivers information without actual injection or mutation (8,000 words)

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Rogue Verbs

Mao Jian | New Left Review | 31st August 2026

Chinese culture is changing, as millions consume new — mostly more fast-paced — forms of storytelling. These include micro-dramas that tell soap opera stories across dozens of short videos, as well as "serialised, self-published, pay-as-you-go web-novels" and user-generated livestreams. These texts might be crude, but at least they prioritise action. The message to the consumer is: do something (5,900 words)