DON'T EVER GIVE UP
Book Review: A Doctor’s Impassioned Critique of Big Pharma By Troy Farah Compared to other high-income countries, the fitness of Americans is in dismal shape — and has been declining for decades. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated health disparities, crisis on top of crisis has compounded to create even more devastating conditions for a […]
Book Review: Healing from Heartbreak, According to Science By Jaime Herndon Early on in “Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey,” science journalist Florence Williams notes that “much has been written about the science of falling in love, but very little about what happens on the other side. Only in recent years has science begun to […]
Love is a Losing Game – Elizabeth Bishop’s Poem “One Art” Love is a Losing Game – Elizabeth Bishop’s Poem “One Art” The definition of losing is not only applied to material items, but it also conveys the feelings of abandonment, departure and rejection that one person can leave in another person’s […]
Book Review: A Sweeping — and Personal — History of Addiction By Peter Andrey Smith At age 29, Carl Erik Fisher, a newly minted physician, arrives at Bellevue, the public hospital in Manhattan best known for serving the most challenging cases of mental illness. Only Fisher comes as a patient, and he’s locked in a dual diagnosis […]
The Catcher In The Rye By: J.D. Salinger A title like “The Catcher in the Rye” makes one think twice when reading this book. There is a lot of thought put into the title itself, but its true meaning is not conveyed until the very end of the novel, making one have […]
BookTrib’s Bites: Four to Keep You Reading Through the Night (NewsUSA)“Sins of the Fathers” by Herbert J. Stern and Alan A. WinterIn the tradition of Herman Wouk, this eye-opening historical sequel to “Wolf” tells the dramatic true story of the foolish prime minister who undermined the coup to topple Hitler, delivered Czechoslovakia to Hitler, saved […]
Abandonment: Referencing the Characters Nomi Nickel from Miriam Toews’ A Complicated Kindness, and Chiyo from Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha Abandonment is a mother bird deserting her baby chick after its first flight. Leaving a loved one to fend for itself on its own, results in confusion and heartache. Yet, if […]
Racial Discrimination: Referencing the Novel Obasan Written by Joy Kogawa During the years of WWII throughout Canada, the novel, Obasan written by Joy Kogawa, reflects into the life of Naomi Nakane, a Japanese Canadian, who is rather confused of her background and the vicious and evil eyes of society. The novel Obasan reveals […]
Book Review: The Science Behind Aesop’s Menagerie By Dan Falk Several chapters into “Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables,” zoologist and science writer Jo Wimpenny explains that, as a very young girl, she sometimes wanted to be a dog. (In a footnote she credits growing up in Wales for encouraging her “to think outside […]
Book Review: Why Our Emotions Are So Powerful By Elizabeth Svoboda In the fall of 1983, Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov was monitoring his country’s nuclear warning systems when alarm bells suddenly started ringing. The screen in front of him flashed the word “LAUNCH.” The alerts signaled what appeared to be a terrifying reality: The […]