Within the past several years, numerous specialized books have been published, such as books that deal with suicide exclusively or concentrate on the death of a parent.Nonfiction books about death have been in the vanguard in the creation and promotion of new forms of writing for young people....
Unsurprisingly, the first Ukrainian books for children about the Euromaidan revolution, death, and the war in Donbas were picturebooks (Świetlicki, 2018). Probably due to the political situation in Ukraine also, one of Maya’s classmates is a refugee and another lost her father in Donbas....
Death is a complex and sensitive topic, even in children’s literature. While some children’s books do address death, it’s typically approached in a gentle and age-appropriate manner, often focusing on themes of loss, grief, and coping. ...
Issues of medical ethics and mortality are the focus of State of Wonder (2011), in which a pharmaceutical researcher travels to the Amazon Rainforest to investigate both the death of a colleague and a scientist’s work on an infertility drug. The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About ...
A lively reinterpretation of the Socratic style of discussion by the always-interesting public philosopher Agnes Callard. For her the Socratic method is key to making progress in answering the most important questions we can ask about love, sex, death, and politics. Read expert recommendations Buy...
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka is a novel told from the perspective of the women linked to Ansel Packer, a serial killer on death row in Texas counting down the hours to his execution by lethal injection. As well as the four victims he killed, the perspectives of other women in...
The story opens with the funeral of Adam Fletcher, a man whose death sets in motion a chain of events that unravel the tightly wound lives of those left behind. Claire Fletcher, his adopted granddaughter, is forced to choose between what her heart desires; i.e., follow the love of her ...
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Duras’s and Antelme’s marriage had already been strained by the death of their child in 1942, and by 1944, Duras was involved with the editor Dionys Mascolo, referred to as D. in the book, and intent upon divorcing Antelme. This fact hovers over her narrative, contributing to her anx...
A new life where I live with dread that whatever daily joys I have will soon be taken from me, like they are being taken from so many others in my community and country: by unemployment, scarcity, disease, or death. A new life where I bake a lot of bread, drink too much coffee, ...