The UC Davis Health System’s Interprofessional Book Club, in meetings through January, is exploring the connections between the Great Migration and social determinants of health and health disparities ...

Kaiako Hona Black has released his debut book He Iti te Kupu: MÄ ori Metaphors and Similes to help experienced and learners of te reo MÄ ori bring a poetic style to their kÅ rero. Photo: Supplied / ...

As a writer, I have no flair for similes and metaphors: Nothing ever reminds me of anything else. Homer might compare a warrior on the battlefield to a roaring lion; Robert Burns might say his love is ...

This book contains one of Susan Sontag's most famous sentences. I bring this up because Trisha Ready's main criticism of Sontag's book on illness is that she "advocated for the elimination of any ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge called metaphor “an act of the imagination,” whereas he relegated simile to “an act of fancy.” Photo from National Portrait Gallery, 1795. Public Domain Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...

There are those who regard the availability of metaphor as a blessing, an enhancement of the ranges of life. In one of the epigraphs to Denis Donoghue’s subtle and engrossing new book, the poet John ...

Metaphors On Vision, Stan Brakhage’s first book, is highly peculiar for a fully fleshed out credo on cinema, for it contains prose poetry, scripts, script fragments, sketches, and letters. Jonas Mekas ...

CULTURE, SPACE AND THE NATION-STATE By Dipankar Gupta, Sage, Rs 445 The chief concerns of anthropology is usually understood to be the study of kinship, village life, caste observances, rituals and so ...