Announcing: The 2025 QWF Literary Awards finalists! 35 finalists have made the shortlists in seven categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, first book, translation, spoken word, and children's and young adult literature. See the finalists and learn more about the gala. 👇 qwf.org/the-2025-qwf...

In "Homesick," Nicholas Shapiro examines the US government's distribution of over 120,000 toxic trailers following Hurricane Katrina, their devastating health effects, and the need to create new forms of accountability and change. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/MiN6Otd

In his new book Gone Gone, McGill professor Todd Meyers goes beyond the headlines about the opioid crisis to movingly convey the grief of those who have lost loved ones to overdose deaths mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/sharing-the-...

Watch @totomcgee.bsky.social speak on Gone Gone, in conversation with @meghanor.bsky.social at the Remarque Institute last month. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyJ1...

Still coming down from my conversation about GONE GONE with Meghan O’Rourke at the NYU Remarque Institute this past Wednesday. @dukepress.bsky.social

The @nytimes.com says @totomcgee.bsky.social 's new book "Gone, Gone" is a stand-out among many books on the opioid crisis. Molly Young says it's "the first account I’ve found that must be respirated rather than read. Effortlessly intricate." buff.ly/HK7bzrZ

I've updated this list of great books on global health! New authors include: @adamjkucharski.bsky.social @rutgerbregman.com @carolinelenette.bsky.social @totomcgee.bsky.social Thomas Homer-Dixon, Don McNeil, Raina MacIntyre, @murray-journo.bsky.social communities.springernature.com/posts/if-you...

Big congrats to @totomcgee.bsky.social for this profile of his fantastic, important, and harrowing new book Gone Gone from @dukepress.bsky.social!

May brings author events with @burrata.bsky.social , @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social , @drbrowne.bsky.social , @alexispauline.bsky.social , @jennrnajera.bsky.social , @totomcgee.bsky.social , @azeiderman.bsky.social , & @michellehsho.bsky.social . Hope you can attend some of them! buff.ly/fNYWRXg

Todd Meyers ( @totomcgee.bsky.social), Gone Gone - @dukepress.bsky.social, March 2025 www.dukeupress.edu/gone-gone

So so so so excited about this book: www.dukeupress.edu/the-visual-a... @dukepress.bsky.social

Book launch prep for May 7th @healthsciences.mcgill.ca social studies of medicine! @dukepress.bsky.social

In the wild! (at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal) @dukepress.bsky.social

My review of Maggie Nelson’s wonderful new book, Pathemata Or the Story of My Mouth (Wave Books, 2025) in The Lancet: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

📖 Explore the full issue: tinyurl.com/2n48s97a

I had the great privilege of reading @totomcgee.bsky.social’s deeply moving, brilliantly inventive book in manuscript. Now it’s out in physical form from @dukepress.bsky.social. Very highly recommended.

"Gone, Gone" by Todd Meyers @totomcgee.bsky.social uses a blend of prose, poetry, and ethnography to reckon with grief in the face of overdose death. Read a Q&A with him about the book: buff.ly/PKcAdIX

Among the great new books we have coming out this month is "Gone Gone" by Todd Meyers @totomcgee.bsky.social . #Anthropology #MedicalHumanities buff.ly/MANOGOT

Authors holding in-person and virtual events in March include @lmgm.bsky.social , @totomcgee.bsky.social , @alexispauline.bsky.social , and @lorimarso.bsky.social . Hope you can make it to some! buff.ly/3QIYhyJ

POSTDOC ALERT! Postdoc in the history of modern medicine or public health at Wisconsin: details at the link below. 2 years, excellent conditions. #Skystorians #HistMed #medhum please repost widely! mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p...

It arrived @totomcgee.bsky.social ! Super keen to read this and find inspiration for the writing ahead of me @dukepress.bsky.social

Save 30% on #NewBook "Gone Gone" by @totomcgee.bsky.social , which blends prose, poetry, and ethnography to reckon with grief in the face of overdose death and the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis. https://buff.ly/4gVQzfG

New episode out now! Listen to @totomcgee.bsky.social discuss his latest book Gone Gone published by @dukepress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5QjN...

New month, new episode! We spoke with @totomcgee.bsky.social about his soon to be published book Gone Gone @dukepress.bsky.social on experiencing grief through losing a loved one to drugs and overdose deaths Listen wherever you get your podcasts 🎧 thedeathstudiespodcast.com/todd-meyers/

In "Gone Gone," @totomcgee.bsky.social reckons with grief in the face of overdose death and with the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis. Read the introduction for free now. https://buff.ly/3WaFX4Y

Check out our new Spring 2025 catalog, which features work by @gentlemanjane.bsky.social, @jsrhee.bsky.social, @totomcgee.bsky.social, @burrata.bsky.social, @fbille.bsky.social & many more. Download it today! issuu.com/dukeuniver...

saddened by the passing of artist Daniel Spoerri, touched that @artforum.bsky.social included my thoughts on his work from a 2017 review of his exhibition at Galerie Anne Barrault in Paris www.artforum.com/news/daniel-...

Todd Meyers (@totomcgee.bsky.social), review of Frédéric Keck's "How French Moderns Think" (@histanthro.bsky.social; #skystorians, #history): histanthro.org/reviews/how-...

We just had a lovely conversation with @totomcgee.bsky.social about his book upcoming book “Gone Gone” - and we look forward to sharing the episode with you. Watch this space! www.dukeupress.edu/gone-gone

@dukepress.bsky.social just wow. YOUR HISTORY WITH ME: THE FILMS OF PENNY SIOPIS edited by Sarah Nuttall in the THEORY IN FORMS series!

: La crise des surdoses cache une crise de deuils lp.ca/bzGQx1?shari...

I wrote about the beguilingly peculiar 1922 movie Häxan for Atlas Obscura: An experimental documentary about witchcraft, banned by prudish American censors but still attracting new fans a century later. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hax...

Congratulations to PhD student Ramzi Nimr, co-winner of the 2023-24 Dr. Margaret Lock Prize in Social Studies of Medicine! Ramzi’s project, “The Wounded Place: Institutional Psychiatry, Community, and Space in the West Bank" is deeply empirical, firsthand research with mental health professionals.

ALL THAT WAS NOT HER @ Librarie Drawn & Quarterly in Montreal! @dukepress.bsky.social

Mbembe: BRUTALISM in THEORY IN FORMS! @dukepress.bsky.social

wow. Almudena Sánchez’s PHARMAKON Fum d’Estampa Press 2023

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi’s ARCHITECTURE OF MIGRATION in THEORY IN FORMS! @dukepress.bsky.social

Harootunian’s ARCHAISM AND ACTUALITY in THEORY IN FORMS! @dukepress.bsky.social