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Ann Neumann

Ann Neumann is the author of The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America, a visiting scholar at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University, and a former editor in chief of the center’s publication, The Revealer, where she is currently a contributing editor. Neumann is a contributing nonfiction editor at Guernica magazine. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, The Guardian, New York Law Review, BookForum, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Guernica, and elsewhere. She’s at annneumann.com and @otherspoon.

A pile of dollar bills burns next to the caduceus, commonly recognized as the American symbol of medicine. A brown face wearing a mask is upside down, looking on. Above them, clouds rain daggers.

Unnatural Disasters

Since 1961, we’ve been witnessing a slow-rolling cholera pandemic. Unlike earlier ones, it began in Indonesia, not India, and moved across Asia and the Middle East. It reached Africa by 1971 and Italy by 1973. By 1991, it was in South America, where cholera had been eradicated ...
A statue of Aphrodite has a black bar graffitied over her mouth, and red computer paint scratched over her genitals.

The Future is Menopausal

November 4, 2019
An unhappy husband walks into Dr. Robert A. Wilson’s office in the mid-1960s and says, “Doc, they tell me you can fix women when they get old and crabby. She’s driving me nuts. She won’t fix meals. . . . She picks on me all the time.” It sounds like the set-up to a ...