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1 week ago | 
nybooks.com | Edna Bonhomme
When I decided to move from Brooklyn to Berlin in 2017, I was attracted by the prospect of a medical system that would protect me from debt and premature death. Like of people living in Germany, I have statutory health insurance, which means that when I had major abdominal surgery in 2022 I did not have any additional copays for my procedure or two-night hospital stay.
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1 month ago | 
thenation.com | Edna Bonhomme
Books & the Arts / April 9, 2025 Pain and Pleasure Zora Neale Hurston’s lost epic. Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Roman Epic
In The Life of Herod the Great, we get a novel full of intrigue, betrayal, and revolution. Ad Policy A depiction of Herod the Great. (Getty) This article appears in the May 2025 issue. The first time I felt betrayed was when I was 11. The culprit: my younger sister.
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1 month ago | 
lithub.com | Edna Bonhomme
I had a little birdIts name was EnzaI opened the window,And in-flu-enza. –1918 children’s rhyme*Article continues after advertisementIt was a web, a net, spreading wide and enmeshing every sort of cousin and dependant and old retainer. –Virginia Woolf (“On Being Ill,” 326 version)*During the early morning of March 4, 1918, three men in Kansas dipped into an acute fever, forcing them to step away from their military duties. Stationed at Camp Funston, private Albert Gitchell, Corporal Lee W.
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2 months ago | 
rollingstone.com | Edna Bonhomme
March 11, 2025 A Doctors Without Borders health worker carries a child suspected of having Ebola on Oct. 5, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia. John Moore/Getty Images On Jan.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Edna Bonhomme
A Doctors Without Borders health worker carries a child suspected of having Ebola on Oct. 5, 2014, in Paynesville, Liberia. - Credit: John Moore/Getty ImagesOn Jan. 29, 2025, the Ministry of Health of Uganda officially declared an , with 10 confirmed cases reported as of March. This marks the eighth Ebola outbreak in Uganda since 2000. The hemorrhagic virus is highly infectious and fatal, prompting public health officials to seek containment.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
frieze.com | Edna Bonhomme |Shon Faye
Shon Faye is one of the most celebrated non-fiction authors in the UK, rising to fame for her discerning prose on culture, relationships and class. Her first book, The Transgender Issue (2021), a provocative treatise on gender identity debates in the UK, was part of her rise to fame. Not only did Faye offer a detailed survey of queer history, but she also indicated why trans-liberation is connected to liberation for all.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
portside.org | John Tarleton |Edna Bonhomme |Victoria Valenzuela |Cathy Sunshine
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – October 22, 2024 Published October 22, 2024 Canvassing in Pennsylvania US Elections: Who Wins and Why The South After Dobbs Cops and Cop City Suppressing Students’ Votes Maine Unions Lead on the Green Energy Transition The Overdue Division Over Zionism The Untold Story of Opus Dei Chicago Southsiders Fight Gentrification How Movements Win Canvassing in Pennsylvania By Cathy Sunshine Third Age Welcome to the Hotel Pennsylvania, an Airbnb set amid rolling...
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
frieze.com | Edna Bonhomme
When people ask me where I am from, I often conceal that I was born in Florida, rather than reply with a sense of pride. Sometimes, I tell them I am from Miami, but never Florida. More often than not, my evasion is met with naivety.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Edna Bonhomme
In July 2022, a month after the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organisation removed the US constitutional right to an abortion, Georgia imposed a ban on terminations after six weeks. In August 2022, as ProPublica reported recently, Amber Nicole Thurman, a resident of Georgia in the ninth week of an unwanted pregnancy, travelled to North Carolina to get an abortion.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Edna Bonhomme
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