Ruth Madievsky

2 weeks ago | thecreativeindependent.com | Ruth Madievsky

Prelude Aria Aber Novelist, poet Aria Aber was born and raised in Germany and now lives in the United States. Her debut poetry collection, Hard Damage, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Whiting Award. She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford and graduate student at USC, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, The Yale Review, Granta, and elsewhere. Raised speaking Farsi and German, she writes in her third language, English.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Ruth Madievsky

A patient was recently interested in starting pre-exposure prophylaxis, known as PrEP, to protect himself from getting H.I.V. A Black man who had lost many friends to AIDS, he was nervous but eager to try it. After we discussed his sexual practices and I reviewed his blood work, I thought he was a great candidate. When I asked whether he preferred the once-daily pill or the long-acting injection, he said he wanted whichever option was cheapest with cash.

Feb 24, 2025 | thecut.com | Ruth Madievsky

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Feb 24, 2025 | flipboard.com | Ruth Madievsky

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Nov 20, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Ruth Madievsky

A close friend—someone whom I’ve always thought of as an optimist—recently shared his theory that, no matter what time you’re living in, it’s generally a bad one. In each era, he posited, quality of life improves in some ways and depreciates in others; the overall quotient of suffering in the world stays the same. Whether this is nihilistic or comforting depends on your worldview.