Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power, and the Will to Live

An intimate, “stunningly profound, and politically rousing” (Sophie Lewis, author of Enemy Feminisms) exploration of how and why we eat, and the relationship between food and empowerment, through the historic feasts and fasts of radicals and tyrants.

Inspired by writer Amber Husain's unorthodox route to healing from anorexia, Tell Me How You Eat examines not just how society views the refusal to eat, but how we understand the meaning and power of food. Suspecting that the standard courses of...