You, Olanzapine”) sounds like the hero of one of those post-“Conan the Barbarian” movies starring some stack of sculpted tofu who will never be Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now it is being held in check by a powerful new chemo drug called ibrutinib. Not long ago it came back, to be faced by a medical opponent that might not have existed had it been smart enough to come back earlier. Early on, a program of chemo sent it into remission for five years. Illustration by Jillian Tamakiįor the past six years, I have had the perfect excuse-ever since a polite but insidious form of leukemia was diagnosed, in early 2010. By conjuring a world in which the law has not yet formed, “Game of Thrones” lowers us into the pit of the human brain.
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