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The title of Rod Nordland's autobiography could be a metaphor for the death he knows is coming for him after a stage 4 glioblastoma diagnosis, or for any of the many crises he has faced in his eventful life as a foreign correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsweek, and the New York Times. But it's also literal: in July 2019, he was reporting in India just before its rainy season began. A bystander found him suffering from a grand mal seizure and hailed an ambulance. At the hospital, doctors discovered a brain tumor and he was medevacked to New York City's Weill Cornell Medical Center for surgery, which took place on his 70th birthday. Afterwards, his surgeon was frank, telling Nordland he might get 15 more months, but that brain cancer would kill him eventually. "Waiting for the Monsoon" was the title he gave to the journal, and then the New York Times article, he wrote about ...
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