Carol Bergman, a New Paltz, NY-based journalist, compiled and edited “Another Day in Paradise; International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories,” with a foreword by John Le Carré. She is the co-owner of Mediacs, an independent publishing company.
Carol Bergman
By Carol Bergman
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Art How a Holocaust survivor from Slovakia became a modern-day Chagall
93-year-old Tibor Spitz found a second (or maybe a third) life as an artist
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Culture Amid New York’s Abundance, Embracing A Life Of Diminished Expectations
The weather is warm the day we arrive. As a child, I would never have been in the city on this day. Like other privileged city children I would have been evacuated to the country, away from the polluted air, the city pools and the open fire hydrants. Or I would have been sent away…
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Culture How My Illegal Abortion Affirms My Belief in the Right To Choose
I was 18 and in love. The diaphragm a Planned Parenthood clinic had taught me to use had failed. Or I had failed, in my clumsiness, to insert it properly. I was pregnant. I was in California finishing up my degree at UC Berkeley, trying to concentrate on papers and exams, but I also knew…
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Culture Egon Schiele, My Father and Me
Nemo dat quod non habeat You cannot give what you do not have. My father began collecting Egon Schieles in the 1950s, his apartment filled to overflowing with near-pornographic images of cadaverous men and women, many with red hair like Ilona, my new stepmother, a childless, childlike woman as different from my accomplished, emancipated mother…
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