In her radical and nuanced essays, New York Times bestselling author Leslie Jamison puts nothing less than empathy—a key societal component—to the test. Drawing on her personal experiences as a patient actor in medical lecture halls, Jamison illuminates the cultural and personal urgency of compassion, connecting it to poverty tourism, reality TV, and female pain. In clear, honest language, she examines how compassion has become the defining theme of our time, following in the footsteps of literary giants such as Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, and David Foster Wallace. Biography (Kirsten Riesselmann) Kirsten Riesselmann is a journalist and translator. She lives in Berlin. New product