Cancer Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/cancer/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:23:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Cancer Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/cancer/ 32 32 A Head of His Time https://www.publicbooks.org/a-head-of-his-time/ Tue, 30 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/a-head-of-his-time/ Recently longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, John Corey Whaley’s eagerly awaited second novel, Noggin, promises second chances: life after death. Or not death, quite, but whatever happens when a head is removed from a cancer-ridden body and cryogenically frozen for five years, waiting for science to catch up. And catch […]

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]]> This Morning Was a Poem: On and Near Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby https://www.publicbooks.org/this-morning-was-a-poem-on-and-near-rebecca-solnits-the-faraway-nearby/ Sat, 15 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/this-morning-was-a-poem-on-and-near-rebecca-solnits-the-faraway-nearby/ Rebecca Solnit’s new memoir, The Faraway Nearby, is a morning poem. Last summer, I sat outside on a covered patio beneath the awning and read it straight through. I read for hours. The book had been widely praised in reviews from the New York Times to Slate, The Millions, and beyond. It would soon be […]

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]]> Cancer’s Poison Gift https://www.publicbooks.org/cancers-poison-gift/ Sat, 01 Mar 2014 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/cancers-poison-gift/ S. Lochlann Jain’s Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us is both a memoir of the author’s personal journey as a cancer patient and a trenchant analysis of why preventing cancer has never been an American priority, even though it afflicts so many of us. Jain is well known for her work on the cultural, legal, and […]

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]]> People in Trouble https://www.publicbooks.org/people-in-trouble/ Tue, 06 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/people-in-trouble/ “My Awesome Place is truly the result of a massive community effort …”1 When the poet and performance artist Cheryl Burke died at the age of 38 from complications related to the treatment of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, friends and members of her writing group brought her unfinished memoir to publication. The book, which was awarded a Lambda Literary […]

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