Sarah Khatry

Nov 1, 2024 | vqronline.org | Meera Subramanian |Carlo Rotella |Sarah Khatry |Bethanne Patrick

This issue presents a collection of nonfiction held together by the first-person singular, that lynchpin pronoun that can be the conduit to some larger idea, or the confidences of an inner life. Andrew Hudgins offers a wry diary of the days following his wife’s foot surgery. Meera Subramanian recounts her experience donating a kidney to a friend’s boyfriend, someone who ignored his poor health until it led to crisis.

Nov 1, 2024 | vqronline.org | Sarah Khatry

This is a type of love story, between scientist and subject, between physicist and the laws of the universe. I am nine years old in the computer lab of my public elementary school, and projected against the pull-down screen is a digital visualization of the Mandelbrot set, a famous example of the fractal. It is a set of complex numbers that satisfy a seemingly simple function and set of conditions, but when visualized in a 2D plane, a startling form reveals itself.