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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and art from classical ekphrasis through to contemporary forms. The collection's engagement with diverse literary and cultural artifacts offers a comprehensive survey of the interrelationships that currently inform literary studies and the arts.

A letter from a stranger shattered my grasp on reality. Abandoned by my family and trapped beneath a curse, I thought I was destined to a life of movie nights with my plants. When I inherited my grandmother's shop I discovered a world of mythical creatures, magical potions, and pleasure I didn't know was possible. I'm not who I thought I was, and a new hope is blooming inside me. But someone murdered my grandmother to steal her powers and ...

Something sinister is happening in Willows Edge All Lanie Alacore wants to do is make her new apothecary a success. But she quickly realizes that there's more to protecting the province than mixing a couple tinctures. Fae youth have been disappearing all over the province and Lanie finds herself caught up in the mystery. With her claim to her grandmother's wardenship contested, a werewolf and prince vying for her attention, and her best fr...

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Greenwoman Magazine celebrates garden writing in all its forms: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, commentary, biography, art, and comics! Daring and fun, Greenwoman is for the hip gardener who loves digging into the world of art and environmental thought that underlies gardening. Volume 5 features: "The Whole Ruth"-a biography of organic gardening guru Ruth Stout's life, from her Victorian-era childhood, through her two decades in NYC, to ...

Michelle Murphy knows how to 'unzip the stringed heart and strum it naked, ' harmonizing the noise of the blood with the news of memory. Murphy's deep song awakens a fabulist dreamscape where broken pieces of lived experience unexpectedly fit together. The homecoming that happens in Murphy's poetry is the wild coincidence of word and world.Andrew Joron author of The Absolute Letter (Flood Editions)

Michelle Murphy is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies and of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of the Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty, also published by Duke University Press.

A detailed history of how sick building syndrome came into being: how indoor exposures to chemicals wafting from synthetic carpet, solvents, and so on became something that office workers felt and protested against

An account of sick building syndrome and the large number of historical conditions--office worker protests, feminism, ventilation engineering, toxicology, etc.--that coalesced to give this phenomenon real existence.

Imagine being a young adult experiencing all the usual milestones of life. Suddenly you start hearing voices in your head and losing your ability to control your thoughts. Who can you trust and how do you determine what is real and what is unreal? My Black Box: Flights of Bipolar offers readers a rare, courageous and candid look inside a bipolar mind as it takes ¿ight from reality and enters the world of full-blown psychosis. In opening her b...

Michelle Murphy is Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto and the author of Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Heath, and Technoscience and Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers, both also published by Duke University Press.

What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, Michelle Murphy provocatively describes the twentieth-century rise of infrastructures of calculation and experiment aimed at governing population for the sake of national economy, pinpointing the spread of a potent biopolitical logic: some must not be born so that others mi...

Michelle Murphy is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies and of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of the Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty, also published by Duke University Press.