Chronic: Understanding Pain
by my sister-in-law
2026.03.11Chronic is a deep dive into the latest scientific research on pain, by my brilliant and talented sister-in-law, Gillian Best. She interviews researchers to understand how pain is studied, and how it exists in our bodies as an intersection of our physical, mental, and social realities. She covers the development of new drugs, the new hopes on the horizon for chronic pain sufferers, and the reasons why racism, sexism, and inequality are all interconnected with how we hurt.
You can and should get a copy of Chronic from the UK publisher, Waterstones, and hopefully there will be a Canadian edition coming out soon.
Also her novel, The Last Wave (2017), from Anansi Press is great and you should read that too.