Essays
by Leslie Jamison
Recommended by Lena Dunham and Emily Ratajkowski
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Psychology, and Social Sciences.
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection; winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison?s visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic underst...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Psychology, and Social Sciences.
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Emily Ratajkowski
“Stayed up far too late reading The Empathy Exams by @lsjamison. This book should be required if you're looking to be a person.”
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Consider The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. Recommended by 8 sources.
“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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