Anneli Jefferson, "Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?" (Routledge, 2024)

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Ryan Engley, "Seriality: Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life" Part 2 (Bloomsbury, 2026)

This material and theoretical history of seriality shows it to be the dominant form of culture since its inception within 19th-century print culture, as both a media structure and a psychic one.The serial is everywhere. Commonly identified by the segmented release structure of an ...  Show more

Rachel Aviv, "You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters" (Knopf, 2026)

A collection of reported stories that explore the relationship between mothers and daughters, from the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for her work in The New Yorker. You Won’t Get Free: Stories of Mothers and Daughters (Knopf, 2026) of It tells the stories of ...  Show more

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