Time. The dead float free of it. But for the living, particularly for the hundreds of millions of people touched by cancer, time is everything. President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot https://www.whitehouse.gov/cancermoonshot/ (more…)
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M is for Mother
It is on a bitterly cold morning, day of the New York City marathon, that my mother starts coughing up blood. She has stoically endured breathing problems ever since she got COPD, but this is different.
It (more…)
Class as Destiny
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GRAHAM SWIFT’S NEW BOOK, Mothering Sunday: A Romance, is simultaneously timely and timelessly subversive and provocative. The novella’s plot (more…)
FICTION: SEA FALL
On a tiny island in the middle of the Aegean, the timeless Greek-German enmity and connection assumes another dimension.
Prometheus dove into the sea with surprising impetus. Fearlessly and (more…)
The Alpha and Omega
Power equals money, and vice versa, used to be a straightforward equation. No longer. The new digital cosmos has made this a very relative concept, transforming what were once purely mercantile products (more…)