International adoption from China arose amid policy-driven abandonment, later fostering trafficking incentives and coerced family separations.

This essay examines how policy, culture, and power quietly claim women’s bodies worldwide.

Three poems explore cultural identity, family conflict, and the influence of media on class, belonging, and cross-cultural understanding.

A thriller about psychopharmaceuticals becomes a feminist meditation on madness, coercion, and resistance within patriarchal domestic spaces.

How O’Farrell’s Hamnet Traces Plague’s Journey From Fleas to Family, Blending Science, History, Storytelling with Empathy

Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet reimagines Shakespeare’s family life to explore grief, plague, and the endurance of love.

A psychiatrist-playwright shows how adapting classic drama for medical students cultivates empathy and reflective care practice.

A candid, compassionate review explores how planning, autonomy, and honest conversations can transform dying into dignity.

As anxieties about AI and mental health mount, a new Broadway drama confronts grief digitally today.

Language, ritual, and narrative serve as powerful healing tools, with context, beliefs, and social support enhancing health outcomes.

Icke’s Oedipus reimagines plague, politics, and identity, highlighting trauma, narrative humility, chronotopes, and ethical listening.

A sweeping new history examines how societies across millennia have regulated, resisted, and reshaped access to abortion.

A dazzling novel where ocean mysteries, human bonds, and uncertain AI futures intertwine with beauty and suspense.

Julie Ridge’s one-woman show Bipolar & The English Channel explores her journey as a record-breaking swimmer and living with bipolar disorder.

The 1918 flu pandemic’s history and literature together reveal its vast global impact and intimate human suffering, offering fuller insight than either alone.

This collection traces memory, language, grief, and healing through sixty-three finely crafted poems that illuminate loss and resilience.

Shannon Vallor uses the metaphor of a mirror to reveal how AI reflects and distorts our shared humanity.

A haunting, multi-voiced novel exploring artificial intelligence, empathy, and what it truly means to be human.