The Reading Room: A review of ‘Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us’

  Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us by S. Lochlann Jain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.   Reviewed by Mary Anglin, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky   At the age of thirty-six, Lochlann Jain embarked on a journey for which neither her anthropological training nor her upbringing as “a reticent Canadian” and the daughter […]

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Film Review: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

“Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”, USA 2015 Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon In UK cinemas now American cinema has always been fascinated by stories of cancer in young people; Love story, USA 1970, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Story_(1970_film), 50/50 (USA, 2011) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50/50_(2011_film), and more recently “The fault in our stars, USA 2014” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fault_in_Our_Stars_(film). The first feature film from […]

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The Reading Room: A review of James Rhodes’ ‘Instrumental’

  Instrumental by James Rhodes Canongate Books, 2015. £16.99 hardcover, £14.99 E-Book Reviewed by Vivek Santayana, Postgraduate student in Literature and Modernity, The University of Edinburgh   James Rhodes’s controversial memoir, Instrumental, is about many things. On the one hand, it is about the trauma of child rape. There is an ethical dimension to the […]

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