Children’s literature offers a lens into public perception and experience of childhood infectious diseases as we face a resurgence of these same illnesses today. 

Edvard Munch transformed personal family tragedies into haunting paintings that reveal illness, grief, isolation, and enduring emotional suffering.

Love, Duty and Psychoanalysis in Third Reich Berlin

Arrowsmith (1925) marks a dramatic shift in the American imagination from viewing scientific doctors as monsters to viewing them as heroes.

A memoir traces grief, identity, and love through food, memory, and cultural inheritance.

How Tuner transforms disability into a cinematic superpower

A neurosurgeon reflects on triumphs, failures, mortality, and compassion through decades of brain surgery.

George Tooker’s haunting painting reveals anonymity, isolation, and powerlessness within institutional waiting spaces.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s haunting tale exposes patriarchal medicine, isolation, and psychological collapse through symbolism.

The film highlights the peril of love that demands possession.

An exploration of gender identity, transformation, courage, and the lifelong search for authentic selfhood.

Lucy Grealy links childhood cancer, disfigurement, and the complex, fragile search for identity in her poignant memoir.

A solitary figure confronts distance and memory in a haunting landscape of home, absence, and emotional isolation themes

A confessional masterpiece depicting mental isolation through striking animal imagery and defiant, indomitable spirit.

A tender summer in 1980s Italy reveals desire, identity, and the unforgettable ache of first love.

A 1930s Harlem murder mystery featuring Frimbo, a brilliant Conjure-Man, with science, faith, and suspense.