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From The Washington Post

From The Washington Post’s Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by Christine Montross It’s no easy business to write about pain. Memoirs of illness and injury too frequently end up either as proud testimonies of endurance or self-indulgent tomes. Andrew Levy’s beautiful memoir, “A Brain Wider Than the Sky,” is welcome relief. A professor of English at Butler University, Levy is also an accomplished writer, who here turns his exacting gaze inward: He (more…)

From The Washington Post

From The Washington Post’s Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by Christine Montross It’s no easy business to write about pain. Memoirs of illness and injury too frequently end up either as proud testimonies of endurance or self-indulgent tomes. Andrew Levy’s beautiful memoir, “A Brain Wider Than the Sky,” is welcome relief. A professor of English at Butler University, Levy is also an accomplished writer, who here turns his exacting gaze inward: He (more…)

From Publishers Weekly

Bernstein, a neurologist who suffered her first migraines in her 20s, teaches at Harvard Medical School and is on staff at the Cambridge Health Alliance, where she founded the Women’s Headache Center. With journalist McArdle, she presents a clear and comprehensive analysis of the migraine brain. Noting that there are about 30 million migraine sufferers in the U.S., Bernstein reveals that migraine is a complex neurological disease that affects the central ne (more…)