When Your Body Isn’t Yours
This essay examines how policy, culture, and power quietly claim women’s bodies worldwide.
Three Poems by Gary Soto
Three poems explore cultural identity, family conflict, and the influence of media on class, belonging, and cross-cultural understanding.
Flushing the Script: Madness, Medication, and Patriarchy in The Housemaid
A thriller about psychopharmaceuticals becomes a feminist meditation on madness, coercion, and resistance within patriarchal domestic spaces.
A Plague on Their House
How O’Farrell’s Hamnet Traces Plague’s Journey From Fleas to Family, Blending Science, History, Storytelling with Empathy
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet reimagines Shakespeare’s family life to explore grief, plague, and the endurance of love.
Learning Empathy through Chekhov
A psychiatrist-playwright shows how adapting classic drama for medical students cultivates empathy and reflective care practice.
Achieving a Good Death: A Practical Guide to the End of Life by Chris Palmer
A candid, compassionate review explores how planning, autonomy, and honest conversations can transform dying into dignity.
When Artificial Intelligence Talks but Can’t Touch: Marjorie Prime
As anxieties about AI and mental health mount, a new Broadway drama confronts grief digitally today.
The Word Is an Instrument of Healing
Language, ritual, and narrative serve as powerful healing tools, with context, beliefs, and social support enhancing health outcomes.
Oedipus–Adapted for the Stage by Robert Icke
Icke’s Oedipus reimagines plague, politics, and identity, highlighting trauma, narrative humility, chronotopes, and ethical listening.