As an avid reader of historical fiction, I am well versed in the spread of tuberculosis (or consumption, as it was more commonly known in 19th century Europe) but, like John Green before he jumped down this particular rabbit hole, I wasn’t aware it was such a deadly disease now. Green proceeds in Everything is Tuberculosis to stress how colonialism, racism, poverty, and other social ills have led to how lethal tuberculosis currently is, even in the decades since it could have been eradicated, and in fact, is the number one cause of death by infectious disease on a global scale. I’m glad I read it, as my eyes have been opened to realizing, as Green quotes a friend, that “nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past” and it’s a good introduction to the subject.