Offering commentary on the worlds of film, drama, literature, and language, a collection of criticism and essays by the author of "1984" includes such pieces as "Politics and the English Language," "Rudyard Kipling," and "Good Bad Books."

"A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought. In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein tells the story of her own disordered eating alongside and through other women from history, pop culture and the girls she's known and loved. Tracing the medical and cultural history of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Orthorexia, Clein investigates the economic conditions underpinning our...