Science, Medicine, and Anthropology
Does beauty exist in the eye of the beholder or in the object he beholds?
— Hervé Guibert, Blindsight (Des aveugles, 1985) trans. James Kirkup, p. 24.
CYTOMEGALOVIRUS, THE BOOK, is a beautiful object. The intense red and royal blue of the cover art, taken from Ross Bleckner’s Inheritance, echo the paradoxical aesthetics of Hervé Guibert’s …