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‘My greatest handicap was the attitude of normal people.’ Alan Marshall’s artful polio memoir, I Can Jump Puddles, turns 70

Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability memoir more relevant than...

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Amanda Tink

Alice Wong recently won a MacArthur genius grant. Her latest book, Disability Intimacy, is about more than sex

Alice Wong’s Disability Intimacy is anchored in authentic experiences of disabled people, rather than stereotypes.

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Steve Silberman, who changed autistic lives with Neurotribes, has died. He captured ‘a civil rights movement being born’

Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes, a groundbreaking history of autism that fundamentally changed how society understood autistic people, has...

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Mark Haddon ‘did no research’ into autism for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time . That’s just one reason it’s controversial

Our cultural touchstones series looks at influential books. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is narrated by Christopher John...

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Amanda Tink