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COVID-19 Treatments Belong to the People, Not Price-Gouging Pharma Companies
On Monday, Gilead Science announced the cost of remdesivir, the first approved treatment for COVID-19. The drug doesn’t improve a patient’s chances of surviving — at best, it speeds up recovery and lowers the need for hospitalization from fifteen to eleven…
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When Harlem Renaissance Novelist Claude McKay Decamped for the Port of Marseille
A review of Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay, Penguin Classics, 2020. In the opening passages of Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens describes how “Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Portuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, Venetians, Greeks…