Noga Arikha is a philosopher and historian of ideas. She is author of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours and Napoleon and the Rebel, a biography of Lucien Bonaparte coauthored with Marcello Simonetta. Her most recent book is The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind. She is a member of the Lapham’s Quarterly editorial board.
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Medicine was once a humanistic endeavor, an art as well as a science. Today both doctors and patients fail to see that... More
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Authenticity it is taken for granted by those born within old culinary traditions, but pursued precisely by those for whom the “local” is reduced to the farmer’s market. More
