Thalidomide (Drug) Poet Marina Abramovic, NYT Critic Philip Shenon, HuffPost Editor-in-Chief Lydia Polgreen and Culture Reporter Kate Lunau Discuss Their New Books Irina Eisenberg recounts in e-lla the landscape of the Chernobyl catastrophe and the extraordinary efforts, inspired by controversy about the lingering health effects, to reassess just how dangerous radiation is.