From Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

…for when a moment arrives that is so much feared and so long waited, it perforates the veil of everyday expectation in such a way as to reveal the prodigious darkness of the unknown.

From “Katina” by Roald Dahl

Har not the hills that very morning turned and looked northward towards Tepelene where they had seen a thousand German aircraft gathered under the shadow of Olympus? Was it not true that the snow on the top of Dodona had

From “Everything Is Tuberculosis” by John Green

In 2000, the Ugandan physician Dr. Peter Mugyenyi gave a speech about the rich world’s refusal to expand access to drugs treating HIV/AIDS. Millions of people were dying each year of AIDS, even though safe and effective antiretroviral therapy could