The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz
Koch and Doyle were doggedly inquisitive men who discovered that neither germs nor crime are any match for science.
March 9, 2026
Koch and Doyle were doggedly inquisitive men who discovered that neither germs nor crime are any match for science.
razilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho has devoted much of his still-young career to a thoughtful exploration of the many ways that cities, and by extension urban societies, are shaped and abraded over the years by political and economic forces. This …
he disciples Peter and John were opposites. My favorite example of this is from John 21:4. After an unsuccessful night of fishing near the Sea of Galilee, Jesus appears on the shore. Peter jumps out of the boat to swim out and meet him. It’s said that …
ticky Time, the debut collection from Los Angeles–based poet Alex Moreno, playfully explores what it means to be a body—and a divine being—under late-stage capitalism. The book itself is an art object. Published by micropublisher Sunflower Station, han…
alfway through Mexican author Elena Garro’s debut novel, Los recuerdos del porvenir, time stops dead. I don’t mean in some metaphorical sense, though it may feel that way due to the sudden boldness of the plot twist. No, I mean that Felipe Hurtado, the…
The Poisonwood Bible is a 1998 novel by Barbara Kingsolver, which tells the story of a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from the U.S. state of Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, close to the Kwilu River.
