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Laura Kolbe

Laura Kolbe is a doctor and Medical Ethics Fellow at Weill Cornell Medicine. Her poetry collection Little Pharma will be published this fall. (February 2021)

Intensive Care

February 25, 2021 issue

Silvina Ocampo at her family’s summer home near Buenos Aires, 1933–1934

‘Mysterious and Infinitely Solitary’

Forgotten Journey

by Silvina Ocampo, translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine and Katie Lateef-Jan, with a foreword by Carmen Boullosa

The Promise

by Silvina Ocampo, translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine and Jessica Powell, with a foreword by Ernesto Montequín

April 23, 2020 issue

New ventilators arriving at the Columbus Covid2 Hospital, Rome, Italy, March 16, 2020

Covid-19, Doctors & ‘Distributive Justice’

There’s good reason for giving doctors and health-care workers discretion in their practice, because it’s entirely likely that Covid-19 will pose new and different challenges over time.

March 19, 2020