The Covenant of Water: Abraham Verghese’s Sweeping New Fable of Family and Medicine
“The Covenant of Water” follows three generations of a close-knit and haunted family in southwestern India.
May 2023
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Jan 2023
Throuples aren’t immoral – and neither is my own ‘scandalous’ marriage
Why should we think it shocking for someone to love multiple others? We don’t restrict any other relationship to a binary.
Apr 2022
The Mystifying Rise of Child Suicide
Every suicide creates a vacuum. Those left behind fill it with stories that aspire to rationalize their ultimately unfathomable plight.
Mar 2022
How a Mystery Illness Cost One Writer a Decade of Health
“I thought I couldn’t remain in the box that was my body anymore — and yet I had to.”
Feb 2022
Claudia Rankine Tries to Answer the Impossible
To me, it’s self-evident that we are in a democratic crisis, that white supremacy is not only on the rise, but is also empowered.
Jan 2022
How We Renovated a Storied Estate During Lockdown
As the Covid months wore on, the place took on the feeling that places have only when they are genuinely inhabited, the character no house has unless its owners can find ...
Nov 2021
My Book Was Censored in China. Now It’s Blacklisted — in Texas
The Texas document constitutes a cynical electoral stratagem by a bigoted politician in a beleaguered state.
Jun 2021
Can Travel Be Fun Again?
For many people, after more than a year of the pandemic, travel feels like something to dread. But it can still mean liberation.
Apr 2021
Devoted to the Deaf, Did Alexander Graham Bell Do More Harm Than Good?
Immune to the beauty of sign language, Bell never saw deafness as anything more than a deficit.
Mar 2021
Quarantine & Its Discontents
Quarantine has been a time of great intensity, immensely difficult but, at least for some of us, also intimate.
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