Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • The American Scholar

    A Blessing and a Curse

    Mar 05, 2018 2 minutes
    LANGDON HAMMER

    IT USED TO BE THAT no one talked about cancer. These days we talk about it a lot, and our metaphors are military. The disease is something we battle or fight. Those verbs ennoble and empower us. They disguise the helplessness cancer imposes and the fact that the enemy is inside

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from The American Scholar

    The American Scholar4 min read
    The Choice Is Ours
    In December 1866, mathematician Mary Boole wrote to Charles Darwin: Do you consider the holding of your Theory of Natural Selection, in its fullest & most unreserved sense, to be inconsistent,—I do not say with any particular scheme of Theological do
    The American Scholar17 min read
    Tramping With Virginia
    Emily Fox Gordon is the author of two memoirs, two novels, and a collection of essays, Book of Days. Her second novel, Madeleine and Jane, was published last September. I’m a devoted fan of Virginia Woolf ’s essay “Street Haunting.” For many years, I
    The American Scholar4 min read
    Downstream of Fukushima
    Iam two levels down in Tokyo’s massive central railway station, eating seafood with my wife, Penny, and a crowd of hungry Japanese commuters and travelers. In August 2023, the Japanese government, with the blessing of the International Atomic Energy

    Related Books & Audiobooks