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Book reviews

A story of stigmas
Published Winter 2023
Part memoir, part journalism, Cycle seeks to raise awareness about a medical condition suffered by millions worldwide: PMDD / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Hard choices at midlife
Published Winter 2023
The novel Hedge starts with the makings of a riveting romance—but not all is as it appears / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Reality Writes
Published Winter 2023
A writer, a physicist, and a philosopher walk into a bar ... replace "bar" with "book" and you have the gist of The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A private school matter
Published Fall 2023
A debut novel by Nash Jenkins, A&S '15, is about privilege and power, the pitfalls of masculinity, and coming of age in the dizzying early years of the 21st century / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Nonfiction
Review: Narges Bajoghi's 'Iran Reframed'
Published Fall 2019
This vital work of media scholarship explores how the Iranian regime communicates with the public—and the stories that emerge from propaganda / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Nonfiction
Book review: Katrin Pahl's 'Sex Changes with Kleist'
Published Fall 2019
Heinrich von Kleist was ahead of his time in his considerations of gender and theater / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Interview
Talking with Narges Bajoghli
Published Fall 2019
The anthropologist, filmmaker, and writer discusses her debut book, an inside look on being pro-regime in Iran / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Bioethics
A 'riveting' account of opioid addiction
Published June 21, 2019
Travis Rieder draws from experience and research to explore the opioid crisis in America
Poetry
Worth puzzling over
Published Fall 2018
Writing Seminars professor's newest poetry collection is at once esoteric, mischievous, playful, and obscure / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Poetry
Literary excision
Published Fall 2018
In her seventh collection of poems, alum Elizabeth Spires uses words with sparing potency / Johns Hopkins Magazine