Epidemic Empire: Book Review
Arya Aryan reviews Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020 by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb (University of Chicago Press, 2021).
Refusing Resolution? Exploring Unresolveable Illness and Story Endings
Char Heather explains why chronic illness stories can productively trouble standard ideas about narrative arc and resolution.
‘Ill Feelings’: Book Review
Peter Endicott reviews Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021) I met a patient in my first year as a medical student with symptoms – intolerable pain, inability to be exposed to
The Dementia “Epidemic”: Examining Illness Metaphors in a Time of Pandemic
Avril Tynan examines the dementia “epidemic” and the problems posed by illness metaphors in the context of coronavirus.
‘Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel’: Book Review
Sierra Moreno reviews Laura Otis’ Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel (Oxford University Press: 2019). To feel an emotion is to experience a movement. When something affects us emotionally, we might describe it
Illness as Metaphor I: The Wild Duck
The first in a series of posts considering the metaphorisation of illness in contemporary performances. In 1978, Susan Sontag famously warned her readers of the dangers of treating illness as metaphor. Reflecting on the