February 23rd, 2011
AIDS journalist Helen Epstein takes on malaria politics in this month’s Harper’s magazine, in a long and thoughtful review essay on The Fever. It’s enough to make a gal re-subscribe (which I just did!)
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February 21st, 2011
February 21, 2012. 7:30 pm. “The Fever.” Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA.
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February 21st, 2011
A strange and lovely film, which I reviewed for The Lancet. Check it out here. It’s worth watching just for the “wabi-sabi,” that is, the Japanese principle of finding beauty in transient and imperfect things, which animates the film. It’s an original for sure: a sci-fi romance about organ transplantation starring Hollywood A-listers such as [...]
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February 17th, 2011
My report on cholera’s deep links to the climate–and the ongoing controversy over the origins of the ongoing outbreak of cholera in Haiti–appears in this week’s Yale Environment 360. Check it out here.
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February 8th, 2011
Coming this June, Picador’s paperback edition of ‘The Fever,’ complete with spiffy new cover. Keep an eye out!
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