Laura Kolbe

One Mind Humming

“In my practice I seek to have it both ways: to respect patients and my own mind enough to believe that we can meet in the open field of conversation with our mutual intuitions, experiences, and bodies of knowledge.”

July 2, 2022

Where Does It Hurt?

Three new books attempt to locate the origin of pain and its vocabulary.

The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain

by Haider Warraich

An Anatomy of Pain: How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering

by Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen

Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose

by Leigh Cowart

June 23, 2022 issue

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

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