Doing Harm | Maya Dusenbery | Book Review

My collection of books about women’s rage is large. It’s not quite as large (yet) as my collection of books about women’s failure to be adequately cared for by health care systems. I suspect one category has something to do with the other- but let’s not dwell on that. Doing Harm by Maya Dusenbery fits completely into the latter category, but she doesn’t ignore the former.

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Mayflies | Andrew O’Hagan | Book Review

The importance of the book is not for me in the friendship – which I think is where lots of others get hooked – but in the express wishes of Tully, and in turn Jimmy, to have his death be something of which he could be proud.

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