Reading While Nursing 5 Journals

The New Yorker (Jan 20, 2020)

Menand. Louis. "How Affirmative Action Has Evolved". 62-68.

The New Yorker (Mar 23, 2020)

Dyer, Geoff. “Existential Inconvenience: Life in the Shadow of Coronavirus”. 17-18. 

Gawande, Atul. “The Blight: How Our Economy Has Created an Epidemic of Despair”. 59-63. (Health Insurance; suicide rate of white working class; USA problem)

The New Yorker (Mar 30, 2020)

Leprechaun, Jill. “Don’t Come Any Closer: What’s at Stake in Our Fables of Contagion?”. 22-25. (Literature of pandemics)

Gopnik, Adam. “Abundance of Caution: Entering a Time of Containment, New York is at its best and its worst.” 38-55. (Pandemic, social class)

Denby, David. “Chain Me UP: Harry Houdini and the art of escape”. 67-70.

“Houdini evoked actual cruelties - slavery and imprisonment, people cast into filthy cells and tormented for years. [...] He burrowed into the unconscious of the human race, evoking types of public sadism that had been suppressed, only to reemerge in later eras: his stunts looked backward to the ducking stools of the witch trials and forward to such practices as waterboarding and ‘enhanced interrogation’ under the George W. Bush Administration.”

The New Yorker (April 6, 2020)

Press, Eyal. "A Deadly Principle: Cervical Cancer and Alabama's Medicaid Policy."  24-31. (Medicare in the USA, white working class, populism)

Kolbert, Elizabeth. "How Pandemics Shape Human History." 58-61. (political history of pandemics)

Lepore, Jill. "Loneliness Studied." 62-64. (the emphasis on individualism and loneliness; living alone as a product of capitalism)

Heti, Sheila. "The Letters of Tove Jansson." 65-69. (Moomin's author Jansson Tove, solitude and companionship, idea of home)

The New Yorker (April 20, 2020)

Blitzer, Jonathan. "Juan Sanabria: New York Remembers a COVID-19 Victim". 16-19.

The New Yorker (May 18, 2020)

Tolentino, Jia. "Can I Help You?: The Meaning of Mutual Aid During A Pandemic". 24-29.

The New Yorker (August 24, 2020)

Mead, Rebecca. "Nature and Nurture: A Therapist and Her Husband, a Garden Designer, Urge Us to Seek Solace in Plants." 20-24.

The New Yorker (September 7, 2020)

Kincaid, Jamaica. "A Heap of Disturbance: in Naming What We Grow, We Perform the Act of Possessing". 24-26.

"The garden is a heap of disturbance, and it may be that my particular history, the history I share with millions of people, begins with our ancestors' violent removal from an Eden. The regions of Africa from which they came would have been Eden-like, and the horror that met them in that 'New World' could certainly be seen as the Fall. Your home, the place you are from, is always Eden, the place where even imperfections were perfect, and everything that happened after that beginning interrupted your Paradise." (25)