Anna Silman
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A Year of Secrets
As the anniversary of the U.S. lockdown approaches, the Cut spoke to seven people about the secrets they kept during the pandemic — some shameful, others liberating. → Read More
‘Even for the Rich, It’s Hard to Access’
America’s wealthiest are discovering that the coronavirus vaccine is one of the few things money can’t buy, though that’s likely to change once vaccines are more widely distributed, particularly as more private clinics start getting access. → Read More
Talking Shit With Lauren Oyler
With the release of her debut novel, the hard-to-please literary critic has to offer up her idea of a good book. → Read More
7 People on Blowing Up Their Lives for Love
Much like Christie Smythe blowing up her life for Martin Shkreli, people make dramatic decisions for love all the time — from breaking up their marriages to moving halfway across the world. → Read More
Six People on Secretly Traveling For Thanksgiving
The Cut talked to people on why they’re still heading home for the holidays — and keeping the evidence off social media. → Read More
She Had COVID For Months. No One Believed Her.
In this week’s episode of ‘The Cut’ podcast, senior writer Anna Silman speaks with sufferers of long-haul COVID about their fight to get answers. → Read More
Where Were You When Trump Won?
Ten people on the night they planned to spend celebrating Clinton’s victory. → Read More
Shameless on Vacation
Despite the danger, a certain kind of American is still traveling internationally, to countries like Mexico, Croatia, and Turkey — and they’re not sorry. → Read More
I Love You, Please Vote For Biden
In interviews with the Cut, seven people recounted how they convinced their loved ones to vote against Trump. → Read More
How a Marriage Survives a Cult
Sarah Edmondson and Nippy Ames, stars of the HBO docuseries The Vow, on escaping NXIVM and what came after. → Read More
What Jessica Krug’s Students Think About Her Now
Yesterday Jessica Krug, a professor specializing in African and Latin American Studies at George Washington University, published a Medium article revealing that she is not actually a Black woman, as she has claimed throughout her career. “To an escalating degree over my adult life, I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed… → Read More
My Nap Dress Is a Big Old T-shirt
Nap dresses are the new pandemic clothing trend of choice. We’d like to propose an alternative. → Read More
Their Summer Camp Tried to Be Safe. Kids Still Got Sick.
A growing number of day camps have seen outbreaks of COVID-19, despite requiring masks and physical distancing. Here’s what that means for school reopenings in the fall. → Read More
‘I Had to Put a String Across My Cubicle to Keep People Out’
The reopening of communal offices presents a new set of workplace challenges, especially for immunocompromised employees, for whom a return to cramped elevators, cubicles, and break rooms puts their safety at risk. → Read More
What Made the Difference?
The coronavirus hit Mount Sinai Brooklyn early and hard. That it survived without seriously rationing care or a complete breakdown is no small feat. Here’s how the 212-bed community hospital in Midwood survived its deadliest spring. → Read More
‘It Felt Like a Calling’
Dr. Luke Northern is an anesthesiologist from Chicago, and one of the many healthcare professionals from around the country who was brought to New York City at the beginning of April to support institutions, like Mount Sinai Brooklyn. → Read More
What Is College Without the Campus?
No one knows what the university experience will look like in the fall, but millions of college students are having to decide this month whether it will be worth the price tag. → Read More
A Nurse’s Worst Day
In this dispatch from Mount Sinai Brooklyn, we hear from an ICU nurse based in Texas who came to NYC to volunteer during the COVID crisis. As an army veteran, Alex is used to dealing with trauma, but he has experienced never anything quite like this. → Read More
The Last Face They See Before They Die
In this dispatch from Mount Sinai Brooklyn, we talked to an anesthesiologist whose main job is to intubate coronavirus patients and finds herself wondering if she was doing more harm than good in prolonging critically ill patients’ suffering. → Read More
The Surgical Chief Changing Soiled Bedsheets
As Mount Sinai Brooklyn quickly became engulfed during the peak of the coronavirus crisis, doctors from around the city and country were brought in to help, including Dan Herron, the chief of bariatric surgery at Mount Sinai in Manhattan. → Read More