Before Dawn was caught in the terrifying grip of schizophrenia, she had been a talented jazz singer. Now her son-in-law tells her story of no place to go.
Russia keeps advancing into Ukraine, and President Vladmir Putin has put his nuclear forces on high alert. Things could get ugly. That’s pretty much how the world felt in September
What we lose when we no longer get lost The smartphone has made getting around a city safer, but at what cost to human experience? Gary Hershorn/Getty Images
The anthropologist Franco La Cecla wrote of the fear of being lost as “sometimes stronger and more terrifying than the act itself “One day I was walking among rows of identical houses; I was lost,” the narrator of Italo Calvino’s
Invisible Cities mourns. Calvino was writing about the fictional city of Cecilia, and through it Venice, but he could have been describing staggering along interchangeable cul-de-sacs in any number of postwar suburbs.