Grief and Grievance

Death generates different levels of grief in people, most often linked to our relationship with the individual and our social cultural upbringing. As paediatric palliative care pro...

In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the State Department was a haven for communists and traitors. Among famous targets, like Alger Hiss, the senator also named librarian...

This chapter provides a synthesis and up-to-date summary of studies on prolonged grief disorder (PGD)—an intense, persistent, and disabling response to loss experienced by a signif...

Penelope emerges favourably from comparison with Clytemnestra and Helen, the main paradigms of infidelity in the present, and with the Nekyia’s catalogue of past heroines. The vuln...

Bringing together cultural analysis and textual readings on critically-acclaimed bestseller and winner of the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction, Maggie O’Farrell, this collecti...

Tamura Yoshikazu is destined to die on the alien shores of the New Guinea warzone. Devoid of family contact, perplexed by the unfamiliarity of his environment, deprived of even mea...

'Weary lies the heart that carries the hopes and dreams of their communities, villages, and families.' – Patrick Thomsen  A thought-provoking set of leading Māori, Pasifika, and T...