What to Read When You Want to Know What Your Doctor Is Really Thinking
Suzanne Koven shares a reading list to celebrate LETTER TO A YOUNG FEMALE PHYSICIAN.
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Join NOW!Suzanne Koven shares a reading list to celebrate LETTER TO A YOUNG FEMALE PHYSICIAN.
...moreI’m not sure why it didn’t occur to us then that we could all become excellent doctors.
...moreJournalist and environmental activist Bill McKibben discusses whether our environmental crisis can be improved under our new political administration, climate change denial, and manifestations of resistance.
...moreDawn Tripp discusses Georgia, her new novel based on Georgia O’Keeffe’s life, O’Keeffe’s distancing herself from feminism, and balancing biography with fiction.
...moreJohn Freeman, Executive Editor at Lit Hub, talks with Suzanne Koven about his new print-only literary magazine Freeman’s, the difference between between criticism and editing, and his fear of flying.
...moreSuzanne Koven talks to food journalist, author, and activist Mark Bittman about his “Big Idea”—how food has changed in the last fifty years, and how to teach our children to eat better.
...moreWhen I was nine I faked a vision test to get a pair of pale pink cat eyed beauties. Because I wanted them.
...moreOn Immunity author Eula Biss speaks to Suzanne Koven about mythology, personal freedom, and the history of vaccines.
...moreSuzanne Koven talks to Roz Chast about comics, the burdens of elder care, and her new graphic memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
...moreSuzanne Koven sits down with the New Yorker‘s Rebecca Mead to discuss My Life in Middlemarch, the way a single great book can illuminate our lives over decades, and how our reading of that book changes as we grow older.
...moreSuzanne Koven speaks to Palestinian American physician and poet Fady Joudah about poetry and politics, text and context, and the marginalization of the “other” in the literary world.
...moreSuzanne Koven talks to neuroscientist Carl Hart about his recent book, High Price, and how misinformation, emotionalism, and racism have played major roles in our country’s war—and our culture’s views—on drugs.
...moreTo celebrate his 80th birthday, The Rumpus sits down with neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks to discuss his latest book, Hallucinations, and the relationship between hallucinatory experiences and the imagination and creativity.
...moreWriter, journalist, activist, and lifelong feminist Eve Ensler talks with Suzanne Koven and explores the body’s relationship to the desecration of the earth, the importance of listening to the “real” in ourselves, and how it feels to be known as “the woman who wrote The Vagina Monologues.”
...more“The Big Idea” features interviews with people whose lights stay on—writers, artists, scientists, activists, and others who take a long and broad view of an issue, problem, or concept, and pursue it over many years.
...moreWriter and journalist Andrew Solomon talks about parent-child differences, and the eleven-year process of writing his latest book, which profiles families of deaf, dwarf, autistic, severely disabled, transgendered, schizophrenic, and other marginalized children.
...moreDr. Neal Barnard, who has advocated for animal protection and veganism for the past thirty years, discusses what motivates people to adopt veganism, the idea that humans are natural carnivores, and what’s really involved in producing animal-derived food.
...moreThe unpublished catalogue of fiction inspired by illness is limitless, composed every day, at every hour, in every hospital, clinic, hospice, and bedroom where the ill and injured and even the mildly indisposed attempt to make sense of our altered conditions.
...moreIn the fall of 2008 I was chatting with a woman I know about the upcoming presidential election. She was in her 60s, single, a funky dresser, world traveler, and amateur artist—what my mom would have called a “free-spirited Auntie Mame type”— so I was surprised by what she had to say: She was voting […]
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