Ian Twiddy, Cancer Poetry. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 Reviewed by Sue Spencer Cancer remains one of the most feared of diseases. It evokes dread in the general public and stimulates startling headlines about its insidious and destructive nature. Even as knowledge increases and cancer detection rates improve, this remains the case, despite the fact […]
Category: Book Reviews
Poetry Book Review: The Wound Dresser
Two poetry book reviews will be featured this week. The second review will appear on Friday. Jack Coulehan, The Wound Dresser (Albuquerque: JB Stillwater, 2016) Finalist for the 2016 Dorset Poetry Prize, selected by Robert Pinsky (Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000). Reviewed by Barbara Salas The Wound Dresser […]
Book Review: In-Training: Stories from Tomorrow’s Physicians
in-Training: Stories from Tomorrow’s Physicians by Ajay Major and Aleena Paul. Pager Publications, Inc., 2016 http://bit.do/intrainingbook Reviewed by Rhys Davies In 2012 two medical students from Albany Medical College, New York, Ajay Major and Aleena Paul, founded in-Training, an online forum where medical students could record and discuss their thoughts as they learnt the […]
Book review – Exhaustion: A History
Tired all the time? Anna Katharina Schaffner, Exhaustion: A History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016) Reviewed by Steffan Blayney In 2015 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a new specialist NHS clinic was launched to deal with what seems to be an increasingly common British malady.[1] Among the most frequent presentations in GP’s surgeries, the health […]
Book Review: Keywords for Disability Studies
Keywords for Disability Studies. Edited by Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss and David Serlin. New York University Press, 2015. Reviewed by Kathryn Lafferty, PhD student in Comparative Humanities, University of Louisville Disability studies as a field has extended into many areas of scholarship, from literature to sociology, gaining much attention as it grew out […]
Book Review: Thinks Itself a Hawk
Review: Thinks Itself A Hawk, Wendy French, The Hippocrates Press, 2016. by Rebecca Goss On June 30th this year, I headed to University College London Hospital (UCLH) Macmillan Cancer Centre to listen to Wendy French read from her new poetry collection Thinks Itself A Hawk. As I approached the revolving doors in the middle of the […]
Book Review: The Heart
Maylis de Kerangal, The Heart. Translated by Sam Taylor. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, US. In the UK it is titled Mend the Living, translated by Jessica French, and published by MacLehose Press. Reviewed by Elizabeth Glass, PhD student in Comparative Humanities, University of Louisville. The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal tells the story of […]
Book Review: Hysteria Today
Hysteria Today, edited by Anouchka Grose. Karnac Books, 2016. Reviewed by Kathryn Lafferty, PhD student in Comparative Humanities, University of Louisville. In the first edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I) published in 1952, the American Psychiatric Association removed the term “hysteria,” implying that the term was no longer relevant to […]
Book Review: Brett Kahr’s ‘Tea with Winnicott’
Tea with Winnicott by Brett Kahr with illustrations by Alison Bechdel. Published by Karnac, 2016. Reviewed by Dr Neil Vickers. Brett Kahr’s Tea with Winnicott is the first volume to appear in Karnac’s new ‘Interviews With Icons’ series, in which contemporary psychoanalysts conduct imaginary interviews with major figures from the psychoanalytic pantheon. […]
Book Review: The Way We Die Now
Seamus O’Mahony, The Way We Die Now. Head of Zeus, 2016. Reviewed by Richard Smith Perhaps the first and most important thing to say about this book is that it’s a joy to read. I started it on a flight from Dhaka to Mexico City when I was exhausted, but quickly […]