Hypochondriacs have a poor reputation. “On a per-novel basis,” writes Caroline Crampton in her history of hypochondria, A Body Made of Glass, “she surely outpaces any other writer in the English language” when it comes to such characters. Like most books labeled “cultural history,” A Body Made of Glass is drawn more from archival and textual sources than from firsthand …
My daughter is a pandemic baby. “She goes through a small bottle of hand sanitiser every week.” This newfound vigilance is great from a public health perspective, and I’m sure parents across the country are pleased that they don’t need to remind their children to keep clean. You also might find that your child is on the lookout for danger …
