What We Are Reading Today: Ultra-Processed People

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Updated 03 August 2023
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What We Are Reading Today: Ultra-Processed People

Author: Chris van Tulleken

In this book, Chris van Tulleken, father, scientist, doctor, and award-winning BBC broadcaster, marshals the latest evidence to show how governments, scientists, and doctors have allowed transnational food companies to create a pandemic of diet- related disease, says a review published on goodreads.com.

In a fast-paced and eye- opening narrative he explores the origins, science, and economics of ultra-processed food to reveal its catastrophic impact on our bodies and the planet. and he proposes real solutions for doctors, for policymakers, and for all of us who have to eat.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Novel Relations’ by Alicia Mireles Christoff

Updated 11 January 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Novel Relations’ by Alicia Mireles Christoff

“Novel Relations” engages 20th-century post-Freudian British psychoanalysis in an unprecedented way: as literary theory.

Placing the writing of figures like D. W. Winnicott, W. R. Bion, Michael and Enid Balint, Joan Riviere, Paula Heimann, and Betty Joseph in conversation with canonical Victorian fiction, Alicia Christoff reveals just how much object relations can teach us about how and why we read.

These thinkers illustrate the ever-shifting impact our relations with others have on the psyche, and help us see how literary figures—characters, narrators, authors, and other readers—shape and structure us too.