Suspected communists under armed guard, Jakarta, Indonesia, December 1, 1965 In May 1962, a girl named Ing Giok Tan got on a rusty old boat in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her country, one of the largest in the world, had been pulled into the global battle between capitalism and communism, and her parents decided to flee the […]
D.M. Smith/Imperial War Museums/Getty Images. British soldiers taking cover in a shell hole near Arnhem, the Netherlands, September 17, 19449 The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II by Antony Beevor Viking, 459 pp., $35.00; $18.00 (paper) They were better. Man for man, German soldiers fought more effectively in World War […]
Mondadori Portfolio/Electa/Bruno Balestrini via Bridgeman Images Detail from Simone Martini’s Blessed Agostino Novello altarpiece, 1325–1328 One of the first things I read about China’s coronavirus outbreak were the divorces: the many couples who supposedly emerged from quarantine no longer able to tolerate each other. These reports seemed apocryphal, or at best
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE. PUBLIC DOMAIN, VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS. By the time Michel de Montaigne wrote “Of Experience,” the last entry in his third and final book of essays, the French statesman and author had weathered numerous outbreaks of plague (in 1585, while he was mayor of Bordeaux, a third of the population perished), political […]
INFLUENZA VICTIMS CROWD INTO AN EMERGENCY HOSPITAL NEAR FORT RILEY, KANSAS IN 1918. In October of 1918, a delirious Katherine Anne Porter experienced what she termed “the beatific vision.” Close to death from the novel influenza virus that would kill 50-100 million people, Porter felt transported to a paradisal landscape, one free of the pain […]
On July 4, 1775, just his second day serving as commander-in-chief of the American revolutionary forces, George Washington issued strict orders to prevent the spread of infection among his soldiers: “No person is to be allowed to go to Fresh-water pond a fishing or any other occasion as there may be a danger of introducing […]
“On a late spring morning almost two years ago, while walking on Broadway, I suddenly noticed that something terrible had happened to Straus Park,” André Aciman begins. We published his essay Shadow Cities in our December 18th, 1997 issue. It is about all of the tiny griefs city dwellers experience as their environment changes. We’ve unlocked the
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