Health & Self-help

Ordinary Deaths: Stories from Memory

It really is possible to find life amid the fear and pain of death. Samuel LeBaron – a retired family physician, Stanford University professor, and one-time clinical psychologist – has collected his lessons from a ... Read More »

August 31, 2022 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography

Sick of the System: Why the COVID-19 Recovery Must Be Revolutionary

By BtL Editorial Committee (eds.)

The COVID-19 pandemic has had various impacts, both minor and severe. For Between the Lines Publishing, it’s provided an opportunity to answer the call of writer Arundhati Roy, who penned a viral essay inviting her ... Read More »

July 23, 2020 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Reviews

Hungover: The Morning After and One Man’s Quest for the Cure

By Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall

Here’s a drinking game you can play at home: every time Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s new book mentions Kingsley Amis – his hero and a giant of both postwar British fiction and guzzling alcohol – take a ... Read More »

August 27, 2018 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography

After the War: Surviving PTSD and Changing Mental Health Culture

By Adam Montgomery; Stéphane Grenier

The body of the little girl lies bunched on the ground, her arms splayed forward. A few feet away is the bloated body of a man who could be her father or possibly her grandfather. ... Read More »

February 22, 2018 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy

By Julia Cooper

Fusing social commentary and memoir, the latest instalment in Coach House’s Exploded Views series is a critical exploration of grief culture conducted by an author with a vested interest in the topic. Julia Cooper was ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Reviews

Solitude: A Singular Life in a Crowded World

By Michael Harris

There seems to be no end to the impact of the digital revolution on our lives or its ongoing transformation of the way we work, relax, socialize, express ourselves, and even think. Naturally, this has ... Read More »

April 3, 2017 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

What Love Is: And What It Could Be

By Carrie Jenkins

We talk about love a lot. Despite our mass obsession, however, love remains a subject that has largely evaded scientific, sociological, and philosophical study. Unless it’s wrapped in a Hollywood rom-com starring Sandra Bullock, we’re ... Read More »

January 20, 2017 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Health & Self-help

Inside The Mental: Silence, Stigma, Psychiatry, and LSD

By Kay Parley

After suffering a breakdown in 1948, Kay Parley was placed in Saskatchewan’s Weyburn Mental Hospital, known colloquially as “the Mental.” Nine months later, her illness never properly diagnosed but under control, she was released. While ... Read More »

April 14, 2016 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Memoir & Biography

★ Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat

By Marta Zaraska

“To publicly make the observation that meat is murder,” writes avowed animal-rights advocate Morrissey in his autobiography, “is, in fact, to claim that the law is wrong. It is also to suggest that all British ... Read More »

January 26, 2016 | Filed under: Food & Drink, Health & Self-help

Malignant Metaphor: Finding the Hidden Meaning of Cancer

By Alanna Mitchell

Reading Malignant Metaphor, I was reminded of the first times, as a child, I overheard adults speak of cancer. The topic was always addressed in hushed tones, as though a sooty secret were being shared. ... Read More »

August 31, 2015 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

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