Laura Kolbe

Laura Kolbe is a poet and doctor. She teaches at Weill Cornell Medical College. (April 2020)

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

Giorgio Bassani at Villa Blanc, Rome, 1974

Bassani the Memorious

The Novel of Ferrara

by Giorgio Bassani, translated from the Italian and with an introduction by Jamie McKendrick, with a foreword by André Aciman

August 15, 2019 issue

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