There's nothing we'd rather ignore than the instability of the world. Nevertheless, we are confronted with it again and again. How do we deal with the awareness that something is irretrievably lost? In his new essay, Daniel Schreiber looks as clearly and truthfully as only he can at a central human experience that significantly shapes our present and pushes us to our limits like no other: the loss of certainties that have long seemed irrefutable Collateral. Based on the personal experience of his father's death, Daniel Schreiber tells of a day in fog-shrouded Venice and analyzes our private and social ability to mourn - and looks for ways to deal with a feeling that often overwhelms us.
