In this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear – fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what may be in your children's air, food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Reflecting on her own experience as a new mother, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. She extends a conversation with other mothers to meditations on Voltaire's Candide , Bram Stoker's Dracula, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Susan Sontag's AIDS and Its Metaphors, and beyond. On Immunity is an inoculation against our fear and a moving account of how we are all interconnected – our bodies and our fates.
Notes from No Man's Land : American Essays
Precarious Lease
Dandelions
Dagbøger
Index Cards
Tone tur o retur : tales från Bullshit city och andra ställen
Nomadlivet och dess bortglömda dygder
To Show and to Tell : The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
En emigrants dagbok
In Memory of Memory
Seeing Further
A WRITER'S DIARY : Events Recorded from 1918-1941