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A Tale of Literary and Financial Debauchery: On Joel Warner’s “The Curse of the Marquis de Sade”
John Galbraith Simmons reviews Joel Warner’s “The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal...
John Galbraith Simmons
Novelist, translator, and science writer, John Galbraith Simmons’s fiction titles include The Sharing, Cried the Piper, Lamplighter, and Midnight Walking. His nonfiction works include The Scientific 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Scientists, Past and Present, and Doctors and Discoveries: Lives That Created Today’s Medicine, and (in collaboration with Justin A. Zivin) tPA for Stroke: The Story of a Controversial Drug. He translated, in collaboration with Jocelyne Barque, Marquis de Sade’s 1795 novel Aline and Valcour and the memoir Outlaw: The Rise & Fall of Rédoine Faïd, forthcoming from Contra Mundum Press.
Articles
The Bigoted Roots of Epidemiology
In reviewing “Maladies of Empire,” John Galbraith Simmons shows how an understanding of colonial medicine and slavery needs to better inform our...
Childhood: Sifting Facts from Fad-Driven Fancy
Reviewing “The Origins of You,” John G. Simmons touches on issues like how much parents matter and how insights from genetics are revamping old...
Sade, Too: A New Moment for a Complex Monster
A newly translated work by the Marquis de Sade has much to say about our power-mad, wealth-saturated times.
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