‘Revenge of the Real’: A Review
Des Fitzgerald reviews Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World by Benjamin Bratton (Verso, 2022). Since mid-2020, a small library’s worth of books on the Covid pandemic has appeared. We have had
Chronicity: Future in the Past (Part II)
Alex Henry is a PhD candidate at Leeds University, working on a crip and feminist disability studies analysis of undiagnosed chronic illness in 21st Century British women’s writing. In the second part of this auto-theoretical
Behind the Mask: Making COVID-19 Comics
Creators Shea and Tommy O’Neil discuss the making of ‘The Maskers’ COVID-19 comic series and their vision for a safer community My 10-year-old son and I created ‘The Maskers’ comic series to help identify
Prone: Redeployment to Intensive Care during COVID-19
What was it like to work as a doctor redeployed to intensive care in one of London’s busiest hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Long COVID Patient Narratives: Part 2
In the second part of this two-part essay, Professor Phyllis Weliver considers the importance of long haulers’ voices for therapeutic expression, reframing social experience, and providing data for treatment. Read part 1 here.
Long COVID Patient Narratives: Part 1
In this two-part essay, Professor Phyllis Weliver considers the importance of long haulers’ voices for therapeutic expression, reframing social experience, and providing data for treatment. Our eleven-year-old son is athletic, I explained in
‘ON CARE’: Book Review
Joe Wood reviews ON CARE, edited by Rebecca Jagoe and Sharon Kivland (Ma Bibliothèque, 2020) ‘Send fruit’ is apparently what Chileans say over the phone on international calls. Like asking about the weather, this
Efectos secundarios: Book Review
Katie Salmon reviews Efectos Secundarios: 19 Historietas del COVID (2021), copublished by Astiberri and la Fundación Cultura en Vena. Efectos secundarios (Side Effects) (2021) comprises nineteen graphic narratives from 2020 about the COVID-19 pandemic.
‘Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of COVID-19’: Book Review
Susie Russell reviews Viral Loads: Anthropologies of urgency in the time of COVID-19, edited by Lenore Manderson, Nancy J. Burke and Ayo Wahlberg (UCL Press, 2021). There is something eerie about reading Viral Loads
Violence, Care, Cure: (Self)perceptions Within the Medical Encounter
If medicine is about stories (the patients’, doctors’, science’s, society’s), when and where do conflicts arise that turn the cure into something perceived as violence? Marta-Laura Cenedese and Clio Nicastro introduce their Violence, Care,