Articles by Judith Lewis Page 2

COUNTIES in three states bear his name, as does an ocean current in the southern Pacific, some two dozen mountain peaks from China to the Sierra and a glacier in Greenland. Read more

“TWOFERS,” they are called, otherwise known as Siamese, or conjoined, twins: genetic mutations caused by their parents’ or grandparents’ exposure to fallout from the “Penitence Project,” a series of radioactive explosions generated by the U.S. government in the Nevada desert to punish its citizens for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Read more

IN a supply-side England with social services dwindling, state medical authorities order the separation of 33-year-old conjoined twins with the expectation that the weakest of them will die. Read more

“IN Europe,” Giovanna tells Kate, the 40-something woman who centers Deborah Eisenberg’s short story, “Like It or Not,” “you still have the chance to lose your lovers to someone your own age.” Read more