A Botched Circumcision and Its Aftermath
by Gary Shteyngart
This article, posted to the website of The New Yorker magazine on October 4, 2021, is a "Personal History" essay that details the author's excruciating pain that started in 2020. The cause was his circumcision, which did not occur until he was 7 years old. At the time of publication he had seen several doctors, spent thousands of dollars in medical costs (even though he had excellent health insurance coverage), and his prognosis was to be in some amount of varying chronic pain for the rest of his life. Read more