Before 2020, the relationship that is the body was already ailing. COVID-19 heightens the need to heal it.

Julie Livingston
Julie Livingston is Silver Professor of History and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Her most recent book is Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa (Duke University Press, 2019).
On Longer Lives and Longer Deaths
America has many open secrets. The nursing home is one of them. We try not to think too hard or too long about its residents or its low-wage staff. We’ll confront its smell, its humiliations, its bleakness, only once we need it ...