Sarah Wildman

Staff Editor and Writer, Opinion at The New York Times

editing @NYT Op-ed. was @NBCDigital & host First Person podcast @foreignpolicy. //Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind @riverheadbooks

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'I wanted to buy her time': A mother looks back on her daughter's terminal cancer

2 months ago | newspub.live | Sarah Wildman

In 2019, Sarah Wildman’s daughter, Orli, was just 10 when she was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, a rare form a liver cancer. Over the next few years, Wildman chronicled Orli’s illness for The New York Times, where she is a staff writer and editor for the Opinion section. Wildman’s articles detailed Orli’s bout with several rounds of chemo, a liver transplant, two brain surgeries and a tumor that pinched her spine, leaving her unable to walk. Orli died in March 2023, at the age of 14.
Jimmy Carter, former president who brokered first Arab-Israeli peace accord, is dead at 100

Dec 29, 2024 | forward.com | Sarah Wildman

By Sarah Wildman December 29, 2024( JTA) - WASHINGTON ( JTA) - Jimmy Carter, the one-term president who brokered the historic Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt but earned pariah status in some corners of the Jewish community for his criticisms of Israel, has died. Carter, who had remained active into his final years despite a 2015 diagnosis of liver cancer, died Sunday at 100 at his home in Plains, Georgia, his nonprofit announced.
Monday Reads

Dec 2, 2024 | jill.substack.com | Dahlia Lithwick |Nancy Scola |Sarah Wildman |Jane Mayer

Photo by Alice Hampson on UnsplashHappy Monday! Here are some fine reads from around the web, plus what you might have missed from the newsletter and elsewhere this week. Jill Filipovic is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Dobbs Was Just the Beginning.
If my dying daughter could face her mortality, why couldn't the rest of us?

Nov 27, 2024 | sltrib.com | Sarah Wildman

The first week of March 2022, I flew to Miami with my 13-year-old daughter, Orli; her 8-year-old sister, Hana; and my partner, Ian. We were, by all appearances, healthy. Robust, even. In reality, we were at the end of a reprieve. Orli's liver cancer had by then been assaulted by two years of treatments - chemotherapy, a liver transplant, more chemotherapy, seven surgeries. Now new metastases lit up a corner of one lung on scans, asymptomatic but foreboding.
‘Si ves un zorro y he muerto, seré yo’

Mar 18, 2024 | almendron.com | Sarah Wildman

A una manzana de mi casa, a las afueras de Washington, hay un parque serpenteante con un camino que lo recorre. Un domingo, hace poco, mientras daba mi vuelta habitual por el camino, oí un crujido entre las hojas en la colina boscosa arriba de mí. Suelo ver ciervos por allí; esta vez era una zorrita alegre. Se detuvo. Nos quedamos allí paradas un momento, conscientes la una de la otra. Yo deseaba desesperadamente que se acercara, y poder estar en su órbita un instante más.
'If You See a Fox, and I've Died, It Will Be Me'

Mar 14, 2024 | nytimes.com | Sarah Wildman

A block from my house at the edge of Washington, there is a winding park with a road running through it. One Sunday recently, walking my regular loop along the trail, I heard leaves rustling on the wooded hill above me. I often see deer here; this time it was a bright young fox. She paused. We stood there for a moment, she and I, aware. I wanted desperately for her to come closer, to stay in her orbit a moment longer. I lingered long after she left.
Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind

Dec 7, 2023 | audiobooks.com | Sarah Wildman

Years after her grandfather's death, journalist Sarah Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters in a file labeled 'Correspondence: Patients A-G.' What she found inside weren't dry medical histories; instead what was written opened a path into the destroyed world that was her family's prewar Vienna. One woman's letters stood out: those from Valy-Valerie Scheftel, her grandfather's lover who remained behind when he fled Europe six months after the Nazis annexed Austria.
Opinion | The Empty Seat at Our Thanksgiving Table

Nov 19, 2023 | nyti.ms | Sarah Wildman

Opinion|The Empty Seat at Our Thanksgiving Tablehttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/opinion/grief-death-thanksgiving-holidays.htmlGuest EssayMs. Wildman is a staff writer and editor in Opinion. Sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert analysis of the news and a guide to the big ideas shaping the world every weekday morning. Grieving parents like me are told to gird themselves for anniversaries and holidays, for birthdays and religious events.
Opinion | The Empty Seat at Our Thanksgiving Table

Nov 19, 2023 | nyti.ms | Sarah Wildman

Opinion|The Empty Seat at Our Thanksgiving Tablehttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/opinion/grief-death-thanksgiving-holidays.htmlGuest EssayMs. Wildman is a staff writer and editor in Opinion. Sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert analysis of the news and a guide to the big ideas shaping the world every weekday morning. Grieving parents like me are told to gird themselves for anniversaries and holidays, for birthdays and religious events.
Opinion | The Empty Seat at Our Thanksgiving Table

Nov 19, 2023 | nyti.ms | Sarah Wildman

Guest EssayMs. Wildman is a staff writer and editor in Opinion. Sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert analysis of the news and a guide to the big ideas shaping the world every weekday morning. Grieving parents like me are told to gird themselves for anniversaries and holidays, for birthdays and religious events. We’re advised to plan for days associated with joy. We consider exit strategies.