Edna Bonhomme, PhD
@jacobinoire.bsky.social
Critic, Historian, & Journalist • Author of TENDING TO OUR WOUNDS, A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIX PLAGUES & AFTER SEX • ✍🏾 The Nation, LRB, Guardian, NYRB, etc • PhD in History from Princeton https://www.ednabonhomme.com/ For tips text Signal: bonhomme.09
We're so back. Sorry about the website issues earlier. @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social’s 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 review is now fully available online. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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‘“Use soap and water, use water with chlorine, and use hand sanitiser.” But not everyone has access to those things, especially if they’re living in a displaced persons camp.’ Edna Bonhomme (@jacobinoire.bsky.social) on Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Edna Bonhomme | Ebola in DRC
The current Ebola outbreak was first reported in Ituri on 5 May. Ten days later laboratory analysis confirmed the...
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I wrote about the current Ebola outbreak in the DRC for @lrb.co.uk. I interviewed a Congolese health coordinator who has been providing relief efforts with the International Rescue Committee @rescue.org www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Edna Bonhomme | Ebola in DRC
The current Ebola outbreak was first reported in Ituri on 5 May. Ten days later laboratory analysis confirmed the...
lrb.co.uk
Tending to Our Wounds Join @jacobinoire.bsky.social and Edwidge Danticat as they reflect on the impacts of colonialism, slavery and racism, and the lives formed in resistance to them. Thursday, August 13th at 2 PM ET / 7 PM BST RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
Read my latest essay in @thenation.com
The Nation Magazine@thenation.com · 2w agoThe historian @jacobinoire.bsky.social left the United States in 2017 to flee an authoritarian government and the culture it facilitated. What she found in Berlin was not all that different. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
‘There have been more than 2500 confirmed cases and over a thousand deaths. This is the third known outbreak of Bundibugyo virus disease, and by far the worst.’ Edna Bonhomme (@jacobinoire.bsky.social) on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Edna Bonhomme | Ebola in DRC
The current Ebola outbreak was first reported in Ituri on 5 May. Ten days later laboratory analysis confirmed the...
lrb.co.uk
‘The outbreak is not only a Congolese problem. The worst affected provinces share borders with Uganda and South Sudan, and there are tens of thousands of refugees from South Sudan in the DRC.’ Edna Bonhomme (@jacobinoire.bsky.social) on the Ebola outbreak in the DRC. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Edna Bonhomme | Ebola in DRC
The current Ebola outbreak was first reported in Ituri on 5 May. Ten days later laboratory analysis confirmed the...
lrb.co.uk
‘“Use soap and water, use water with chlorine, and use hand sanitiser.” But not everyone has access to those things, especially if they’re living in a displaced persons camp.’ Edna Bonhomme (@jacobinoire.bsky.social) on Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Edna Bonhomme | Ebola in DRC
The current Ebola outbreak was first reported in Ituri on 5 May. Ten days later laboratory analysis confirmed the...
lrb.co.uk
#journorequest anybody here know a person who recently contracted Ebola or a health worker who is currently treating Ebola patients on the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo? I would love to hear from them for a story for the London Review of Books! Thanks so much!
Wrote about whether AI can be used to increase people's chances of getting pregnant with IVF for @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...
Can AI help improve the chances of a successful IVF pregnancy?
Some IVF clinics are using AI to perform tasks such as sperm and embryo selection, but some fertility experts question whether the technology will lead to more live births
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‘Anti-vaxxers have grown more emboldened since Covid, but they are still very much a minority. Most parents want to immunise their children. Often missing, though, is a sense of vaccination as a public good.’ Edna Bonhomme (@jacobinoire.bsky.social) on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Edna Bonhomme | Get Your Jabs
Among the unvaccinated, one in five people who get measles in the US will be hospitalised; one in twenty children will...
lrb.co.uk
Marjane Satrapi, the French Iranian author of the groundbreaking graphic memoir “Persepolis,” died last week. Hillary Chute examines how Satrapi made defiance into a lifelong project:
The Defiance of Marjane Satrapi
The author of the best-selling graphic memoir Persepolis, who died last week, made rebellion into a lifelong project.
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Read my latest in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago"He invites you to stagger into the infinite curiosities of this world, and to pay attention to the animals who might creep up on you at the grocery store." Edna Bonhomme reviews Ian Frazier's new collection: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/snakes-that-ate-florida-ian-frazier-humorist-essays/
‘Anti-vaxxers have grown more emboldened since Covid, but they are still very much a minority. Most parents want to immunise their children. Often missing, though, is a sense of vaccination as a public good.’ Edna Bonhomme (@jacobinoire.bsky.social), new on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Edna Bonhomme | Get Your Jabs
Among the unvaccinated, one in five people who get measles in the US will be hospitalised; one in twenty children will...
lrb.co.uk
‘Public spending cuts have fragmented immunisation services and worsened child health in the UK. In Hackney, the MMR vaccination rate is as low as 60 per cent; in Liverpool it’s 75 per cent.’ Edna Bonhomme (@jacobinoire.bsky.social) on measles and vaccines. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Edna Bonhomme | Get Your Jabs
Among the unvaccinated, one in five people who get measles in the US will be hospitalised; one in twenty children will...
lrb.co.uk
Read my latest piece in @lrb.co.uk
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 2mo ago‘As so many aspects of our lives have become privatised and reduced to the nuclear family, so has the way people think about their health. But personal choice can only take us so far.’ Edna Bonhomme (@jacobinoire.bsky.social) on measles and vaccines, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
My latest piece in @lrb.co.uk discusses the scarlet fever outbreak and the ways that measles and meningitis recently struck the UK and the US www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Edna Bonhomme | Get Your Jabs
Among the unvaccinated, one in five people who get measles in the US will be hospitalised; one in twenty children will...
lrb.co.uk
It's VERY important to understand what's happening with the NASA 🔭 budget. White House proposed cuts to everything *but* Artemis. The GOP-led House proposal restores the size of the budget BUT shifts spending, which is to say *House committee and White House agree on cutting NASA astrophysics* 🧪⚛️
House appropriators approve spending bill that keeps NASA budget flat
The House Appropriations Committee advanced a spending bill May 13 that rejects many of the cuts to NASA proposed by the administration.
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My latest piece in @aljazeera.com discusses how wealthy mobile tourists contribute to the spread of modern outbreaks. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
The class politics of modern outbreaks
The MV Hondius hantavirus scare revived debates about luxury travel, public health and unequal vulnerability to disease.
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#journorequest anybody here know anyone who was on the MV Hondius, which has been the center of the hantavirus outbreak, or anyone who is living in the Canary Islands? I would love to hear from them for a story for Al Jazeera! Thanks so much!
Two weeks ago, I wrote about what it means to be a working mom, writer, and why it's okay to lean into some stereotypes in my Substack, Mobile Fragments. Also, you should check out Jamilah Lemieux's latest book, Black.Single.Mother. bonhomme.substack.com/p/working-mom
Working Mom
More than a mother and fine with being a stereotype
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My latest review is published in @thenation.com is a cheeky take on the legacy of the British empire. I also discuss Jamaica Kincaid's book Putting Myself Together. I would love to hear what you think. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Worlds of Jamaica Kincaid
Memory pervades a new collection of nonfiction, and so do the ghosts of empire.
thenation.com
In Iran, families are doing ad-hoc forensics to confirm the whereabouts of their detained loved ones, who have been transferred to undisclosed locations during the war. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Even the Hospitals Aren’t Safe in Iran
As the regime imposes a forced forgetting of the massacres in January, it has begun targeting not only wounded protesters but medical workers, who have borne witness to some of the worst atrocities.
newyorker.com
If someone knows a person who was infected with and severely ill from measles or meningitis during the UK outbreaks and would be willing to be quoted for an article, please send me a DM or email me at info@ednabonhomme.com
Amelia Hogan discusses Jurgen Habermas' legacy and Germany's military ties to war & genocide: "The world has been changed by the genocide. Habermas’s statement was a refusal to look at the world for what it was, or was becoming." @parapraxismag.bsky.social www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/hab...
Habermas After Gaza — Parapraxis
Mourning Germany’s Most Famous Philosopher Amelia Horgan
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An important conversation with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, in which he discusses the sclerotic tendencies of liberalism and why we need to move away from the corporatist and NGO models of medicine towards a framework that provides health sovereignty for Palestinians. proteanmag.com/2026/04/02/h...
Health Sovereignty in Palestine: A Conversation Between Mary Turfah and Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah • Protean Magazine
In this long conversation, Mary Turfah talks with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah about health sovereignty in Palestine, the coloniality of Western NGOs, the centrality of healthcare to the genocide in Palesti...
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