Archive for December, 2007

Bicultural feminism revisited

Today I randomly came across a long thoughtful pieceabout an essay I wrote over a decade ago…aboutĀ  the issues thatoccupied me for the first five years of my writing life–biculturalism,feminism, and sexuality. Who knew those old essays were still makingthe rounds?
Canada.cominterviewed the curator of a new exhibit on energy and oil, who verykindly mentioned my [...]

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malaria website coming soon…

I’ve spent the last month putting together material for a new websiteon the topic of my next book: resurgent malaria. MalariaResurgent.comwill be a provocative, opinionated take on humankind’s oldest disease,why it still plagues us, and what can be done about it. There’ll bestories, history, videos, and most of all, conversation. The site shouldbe live soon [...]

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The Body Hunters in France

I’m thrilled to report that the Body Hunters has been translated into six languages, besides English (Japanese, Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Korean.) The French edition, in particular, appears to be making a splash. It’s been selected a “book of the month” by a prominent popular science magazine, and was covered in the French version of [...]

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