What is Graphic Medicine?
In short, it's, "The intersection between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare." And here's why you should read it
In short, it's, "The intersection between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare." And here's why you should read it
For nineteen years, until his retirement in 1885, Herman Melville would awake, slick back his dark hair and unsnarl the snags from his beard, don a uniform of dark navy pilot cloth and affix to his chest the brass badge
In a stack of CDs in my parents’ black 2006 Chevy Colorado in the suburbs of New York City sits a matte black cardboard case containing three discs so scuffed and scratched that certain songs stutter and skip at all
On October 29, 2023, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a pediatrician and neonatologist based at Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahiya, published an op-ed in the New York Times. “As I write this,” Dr. Abu
The moral fulcrum of Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, in which a scholar gains knowledge and power through a demonic pact, is a relatively straightforward statement on the human condition. Daily life
Since my first visit to Parchman to teach writing and literature in 2019, I have come to see prison writing as a unique body of literature that offers a commentary on the conditions that exist broadly in American society, specifically
The picnic of literature is crawling with aunts. Often an aunt bustles in and replaces a dead mother. Other times the aunt stands to the side, offering subversive remarks that skew the family’s official line. Aunts may be deeply embedded
Whenever I’m deciding if I want to read a book, I’ll read the first few pages to see if they make me laugh. And more often than not, the books that make me laugh the hardest are written by women.
“All poets are liars,” my play begins. Plato was probably right. With this enfeebled mind my only recourse is poetry. Behind my head, heads begin to nod. They doze in the surgical amphitheater behind my eyes. I do not know
24 July 1869 I have marked the date of this entry with great confidence, but I must confess the secret to you, Ethel admit that M—and I can no longer be certain if it is a Monday or a Friday.
As my colleague James Folta reported last week, the Adelaide Literary Festival descended into chaos after Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah, a Palestinian-Australian author, was abruptly removed from the festival over “sensitivity concerns.” In the wake of this call from the board,
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In July 1987 the Hajj ceremony in Mecca turned into a bloodbath. Shia pilgrims, mostly Iranians, staged a protest, chanting against America, Israel, and Saddam Hussein. Saudi security forces confronted them. Violence erupted. Nearly four hundred people were killed. I was seven years old. My favorite uncle happened to be among the pilgrims that year. […]
Tis a truth universally acknowledged that in the second week of January, resolutions made in earnest over champagne toasts fizzle out like fireworks. This is the rubber meet road week, when we (or, I) start to crave structure around pledges
Readers seeking a deeper immersion in their books are turning to the multisensory experience of “ambiance videos.” Popular on BookTok, these are mood enhancing videos you can put on in the background while reading, to get into a story, curate
Readers seeking a deeper immersion in their books are turning to the multisensory experience of “ambiance videos.” Popular on BookTok, these are mood enhancing videos you can put on in the background while reading, to get into a story, curate