Dégas’ brilliant rendering of perspective pulls the viewer into the mystery of what has taken place in what appears to be a woman’s bedroom. At the foot of the single-width bed, a coat is thrown over the metal bedpost frame. In the right foreground a bearded man leans against a closed door. His shadow looms […]

Two paintings by Jean-Baptiste Greuze capture weary domesticity and maternal intimacy.

Blending memoir and criticism, Sarah Chihaya’s Bibliophobia explores depression, identity, and the perilous yet healing power of books.

The book’s profound and startling reflections on mortality are lyrical, fierce, and deeply felt.

This essay collection explores living with severe mental illness, blending memoir, cultural critique, and reflections on resilience, treatment, and identity.

Donald Antrim’s memoir confronts suicide, psychosis, and survival with unflinching honesty, blending personal crisis, hospitalization, and hard-earned hope.

Jay Baruch’s Fourteen Stories vividly portrays caregivers’ struggles, ethical dilemmas, and resilience.

A powerful blend of memoir and critique, Amanda Hess examines pregnancy, technology, and parenting amid modern medicine’s promises and digital noise.

A deep-dive podcast exploring The Pitt, a gripping medical drama, its realism, emotional impact, and lessons for medicine and humanity.

Kevin Hazzard’s American Sirens illuminates Freedom House paramedics’ pivotal role in medical history, racial justice, and emergency care innovation.

This poem reveals how human suffering unfolds quietly, unnoticed, while ordinary life continues its daily rhythms, indifferent to personal catastrophe.

Forspoken blends role-playing, action, and open-world gameplay to tell a magical yet deeply human story about chronic trauma and healing.

Owen’s stark poem portrays shell-shocked soldiers haunted by war, exposing both their torment and society’s complicity in their suffering.

A gripping novel of hardship and resilience, this story explores addiction, poverty, and personal triumph in a forgotten rural America.

A powerful memoir revealing how classic literature can illuminate, challenge, and resist authoritarianism, especially through the eyes of courageous women.

Two haunting paintings by Henry Sugimoto capture the emotional weight and injustice of Japanese American internment during World War II.